30 day study of the words of Paul ================================= Day 15 2CO 11:30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities. 2CO 11:31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. 2CO 11:32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: 2CO 11:33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands. 2CO 12:01 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2CO 12:02 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. 2CO 12:03 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) 2CO 12:04 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. 2CO 12:05 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities. 2CO 12:06 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but [now] I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me [to be], or [that] he heareth of me. 2CO 12:07 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. 2CO 12:08 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. 2CO 12:09 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 2CO 12:10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. 2CO 12:11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing. 2CO 12:12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. 2CO 12:13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except [it be] that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong. 2CO 12:14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. 2CO 12:15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. 2CO 12:16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. 2CO 12:17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? 2CO 12:18 I desired Titus, and with [him] I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? [walked we] not in the same steps? 2CO 12:19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but [we do] all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying. 2CO 12:20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and [that] I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest [there be] debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: 2CO 12:21 [And] lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and [that] I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed. 2CO 13:01 This [is] the third [time] I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. 2CO 13:02 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare: 2CO 13:03 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you ward is not weak, but is mighty in you. 2CO 13:04 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you. 2CO 13:05 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? 2CO 13:06 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. 2CO 13:07 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. 2CO 13:08 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. 2CO 13:09 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, [even] your perfection. 2CO 13:10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction. 2CO 13:11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you. 2CO 13:12 Greet one another with an holy kiss. 2CO 13:13 All the saints salute you. 2CO 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, [be] with you all. Amen. GA 01:01 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) GA 01:02 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia: GA 01:03 Grace [be] to you and peace from God the Father, and [from] our Lord Jesus Christ, GA 01:04 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: GA 01:05 To whom [be] glory for ever and ever. Amen. GA 01:06 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: GA 01:07 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. GA 01:08 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. GA 01:09 As we said before, so say I now again, If any [man] preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. GA 01:10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. GA 01:11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. GA 01:12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught [it], but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. GA 01:13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: GA 01:14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. GA 01:15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called [me] by his grace, GA 01:16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: GA 01:17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus. GA 01:18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. GA 01:19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother. GA 01:20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not. GA 01:21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia; GA 01:22 And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ: GA 01:23 But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. GA 01:24 And they glorified God in me. GA 02:01 Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with [me] also. GA 02:02 And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain. GA 02:03 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised: GA 02:04 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: GA 02:05 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you. GA 02:06 But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed [to be somewhat] in conference added nothing to me: GA 02:07 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as [the gospel] of the circumcision [was] unto Peter; GA 02:08 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:) GA 02:09 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we [should go] unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision. GA 02:10 Only [they would] that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do. GA 02:11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. GA 02:12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. ~~~~~~