2C 12 Quote Cards

Question 1

2C 12:6

Answer 1

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,

Question 2

2C 12:11

Answer 2

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.

Question 3

2C 12:2

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

2C 12:9

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

2C 12:8

Answer 5

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

Question 6

2C 12:17

Answer 6

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

Question 7

2C 12:5

Answer 7

I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses.

Question 8

2C 12:10

Answer 8

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.

Question 9

2C 12:1

Answer 9

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

Question 10

2C 12:15

Answer 10

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?

Question 11

2C 12:12

Answer 11

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

Question 12

2C 12:13

Answer 12

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

Question 13

2C 12:20

Answer 13

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.

Question 14

2C 12:4

Answer 14

was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell.

Question 15

2C 12:21

Answer 15

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.

Question 16

2C 12:18

Answer 16

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?

Question 17

2C 12:7

Answer 17

or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

Question 18

2C 12:3

Answer 18

And I know that this man-whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows-

Question 19

2C 12:14

Answer 19

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.

Question 20

2C 12:19

Answer 20

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.

Question 21

2C 12:16

Answer 21

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