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I suppose I have to boast, even though it doesn't really help. Let me go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.
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I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was taken up to the third heaven (whether physically in the body, or out of it, I don't know, but God knows).
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I know that this man (whether taken up physically in the body, or apart from it, I don't know, but God knows),
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how he was taken up into Paradise, and heard things too wonderful to be spoken, in words so sacred that no human being is allowed to say.
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Something like that I'll boast about, but I won't boast about myself, except for my weaknesses.
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I wouldn't be foolish if I wanted to boast, because I'd be telling the truth. But I won't boast, so that nobody will think more of me than what they see me doing or hear me saying.
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Also, because these revelations were so amazingly great, and so that I wouldn't become proud, I was given a “thorn in my flesh”—a messenger from Satan to hurt me so that I wouldn't become proud.
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I pleaded with the Lord three times to get rid of this problem.
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But he told me, “My grace is all you will need, for my power is effective in weakness.” That's why I happily boast about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may reside in me.
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So I appreciate weaknesses, insults, troubles, persecutions, and difficulties that I suffer for Christ's sake. For when I'm weak, then I'm strong!
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I'm talking like a fool, but you made me do it! You should really have been speaking well of me, for in no way am I inferior to the super-apostles, even though I don't count for anything.
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Yet the marks of an apostle were patiently demonstrated among you—signs, wonders, and powerful miracles.
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In what way were you inferior to the other churches except I wasn't any burden to you? Please forgive me for doing you wrong!
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Now I'm preparing to visit you for the third time, and I won't be a burden to you. I don't want what you have, I want you yourselves! After all, children shouldn't save up for their parents, but parents should for their children.
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I will happily spend myself, and be spent, for you. If I love you so much more, will you love me even less?
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Well, even if that's so, I wasn't a burden to you. Maybe I was being devious, and tricked you with my cunning ways!
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But did I take advantage of you by anyone I've sent to you?
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I urged Titus to go and see you, and I sent another brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? No, we both have the same spirit and use the same methods.
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Maybe you're thinking that all along we've been just trying to defend ourselves. No, we speak for Christ before God. Everything we do, friends, is for your benefit.
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I do worry when I visit that somehow I won't find you as I would want to, and that you won't find me as you would want to! I'm afraid that there will be arguments, jealousy, anger, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
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I'm afraid that when I visit, my God will humble me in your presence, and that I will be weeping over many of those who have sinned previously, and who still have not repented of impurity, sexual immorality, and indecent acts that they committed.