2 Corinthians 12

Question 1

I mu

Answer 1

I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.
2 Corinthians 12:1

Question 2

I kn

Answer 2

I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows.
2 Corinthians 12:2

Question 3

And I kn

Answer 3

And I know that this man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows—
2 Corinthians 12:3

Question 4

was c

Answer 4

was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell.
2 Corinthians 12:4

Question 5

I will

Answer 5

I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses.
2 Corinthians 12:5

Question 6

Even if I sh

Answer 6

Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say,
2 Corinthians 12:6

Question 7

Three times I p

Answer 7

Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.

2 Corinthians 12:8

Question 8

But he

Answer 8

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
2 Corinthians 12:9

Question 9

That is why, f

Answer 9

That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12:10

Question 10

I have m

Answer 10

I have made a fool of myself, but you drove me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, for I am not in the least inferior to the “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.
2 Corinthians 12:11

Question 11

I per

Answer 11

I persevered in demonstrating among you the marks of a true apostle, including signs, wonders and miracles.
2 Corinthians 12:12

Question 12

How w

Answer 12

How were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was never a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!
2 Corinthians 12:13

Question 13

Now I

Answer 13

Now I am ready to visit you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you, because what I want is not your possessions but you. After all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
2 Corinthians 12:14

Question 14

So I w

Answer 14

So I will very gladly spend for you everything I have and expend myself as well. If I love you more, will you love me less?
2 Corinthians 12:15

Question 15

Be th

Answer 15

Be that as it may, I have not been a burden to you. Yet, crafty fellow that I am, I caught you by trickery!
2 Corinthians 12:16

Question 16

Did

Answer 16

Did I exploit you through any of the men I sent to you?

2 Corinthians 12:17

Question 17

I urged

Answer 17

I urged Titus to go to you and I sent our brother with him. Titus did not exploit you, did he? Did we not walk in the same footsteps by the same Spirit?
2 Corinthians 12:18

Question 18

Hav

Answer 18

Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? We have been speaking in the sight of God as those in Christ; and everything we do, dear friends, is for your strengthening.
2 Corinthians 12:19

Question 19

For I am a

Answer 19

For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may be discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder.
2 Corinthians 12:20

Question 20

I am a

Answer 20

I am afraid that when I come again my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual sin and debauchery in which they have indulged.
2 Corinthians 12:21