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   4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words,   
   which it is not lawful for a man to utter.   
      
   5 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in   
   mine infirmities.   
      
   6 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.   
      
   7 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.   
      
   8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.   
      
   9 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.   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience,   
   in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more   
   abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.   
      
   16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I   
   caught you with guile.   
      
   17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?   
      
   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?   
      
   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.   
      
   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:   
      
   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.   
      
   2 Corinthians Chapter 13   
      
   1 This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or   
   three witnesses shall every word be established.   
      
   2 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:   
      
   3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is   
   not weak, but is mighty in you.   
      
   4 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.   
      
   5 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?   
      
   6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.   
      
   7 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.   
      
   8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.   
      
   9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we   
   wish, even your perfection.   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   12 Greet one another with an holy kiss.   
      
   13 All the saints salute you.   
      
   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. (The second epistle   
   to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by   
   Titus and Lucas.)   
      
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