2 Corinthians 12:5

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Of such a man wyll I glorie, yet of my selfe wyll I not glorie, but in myne infirmities.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 2:3 : 3 And I was among you in weaknesse, and in feare, and in much tremblyng.
  • 2 Cor 11:30 : 30 If I must needes glory, I wyll glory of the thynges that concerne myne infirmities.
  • 2 Cor 12:9-9 : 9 And he sayde vnto me: My grace is sufficient for thee. For my strength is made perfect in weakenesse. Most gladly therfore, I wyll rather glorie in my infirmities, that the power of Christ myght dwell in me. 10 Therfore haue I delectation in infirmities, in rebukes, in necessities, in persecutions, in anguishes for Christes sake: For when I am weake, then am I strong.

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  • 2 Cor 11:29-30
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    29Who is weake, and I am not weake? who is offended, and I burne not?

    30If I must needes glory, I wyll glory of the thynges that concerne myne infirmities.

  • 2 Cor 12:6-11
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    85%

    6For though I woulde desire to glorie, I shall not be a foole, for I wyll say the trueth: but I nowe refrayne, lest any man shoulde thynke of me, aboue that which he seeth me to be, or yt he heareth of me.

    7And lest I shoulde be exalted out of measure through the aboundaunce of the reuelations, there was geuen vnto me a pricke to the fleshe, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, because I should not be exalted out of measure.

    8For this thyng besought I the Lorde thryse, that it myght depart from me.

    9And he sayde vnto me: My grace is sufficient for thee. For my strength is made perfect in weakenesse. Most gladly therfore, I wyll rather glorie in my infirmities, that the power of Christ myght dwell in me.

    10Therfore haue I delectation in infirmities, in rebukes, in necessities, in persecutions, in anguishes for Christes sake: For when I am weake, then am I strong.

    11I am become a foole in gloriyng. Ye haue compelled me: for I ought to haue ben commended of you. For nothyng was I inferiour vnto the chiefe Apostles, though I be nothyng,

  • 2 Cor 12:1-4
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    1It is not expedient doubtles, for me to glorie, I wyl come to visions & reuelations of the Lorde.

    2For I knew a ma in Christe, aboue xiiij. yeres ago, (whether he were in the body I can not tell, or whether he were out of the body, I can not tell, God knoweth) that he was taken vp into the thirde heauen:

    3And I knewe the same man (whether in the body or out of the body, I can not tell, God knoweth)

    4Howe that he was take vp into paradise, & hearde vnspeakeable wordes, which is not lawfull for man to vtter.

  • 2 Cor 11:16-18
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    16I say agayne, let no man thynke that I am foolyshe: or els euen nowe take ye me as a foole, that I also may boast my selfe a litle.

    17That I speake, I speake it not after the Lorde: but as it were foolishly, in this maner of boastyng.

    18Seyng that many glorie after ye fleshe, I wyll glorie also.

  • Rom 15:17-18
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    17I haue therefore whereof I may reioyce through Christ Iesus, in those thynges which parteyne to God.

    18For I dare not speake of any of those thinges which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the gentiles obedient with worde and deede,

  • 2 Cor 10:16-18
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    16And that I shall preache the Gospell, in those regions which are beyonde you: and not to glorie of those thynges, which by another mans measure are prepared alredy.

    17But let hym that glorieth, glorie in the Lorde.

    18For he that prayseth hymselfe, is not alowed, but whom the Lorde prayseth.

  • 2 Cor 5:12
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    12For we prayse not our selues agayne vnto you, but geue you an occasion to reioyce of vs, that ye may haue somwhat agaynst them which reioyce in the face, and not in the heart.

  • 2 Cor 11:5
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    5Ueryly I suppose that I was not behynde the chiefe Apostles.

  • 2 Cor 11:10
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    10The trueth of Christe is in me, that this reioycyng shall not be shut vp agaynst me in the regions of Achaia.

  • Eph 3:13
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    13Wherfore I desire that ye faynt not in my tribulations for you, whiche is your glorie.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15But I haue vsed none of these thinges. Neuerthelesse, I wrote not these thinges, that it shoulde be so done vnto me: For it were better for me to die, then that any man should make my reioycing vayne.

  • 1 Cor 1:31
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    31That accordyng as it is written: he that reioyceth, let hym reioyce in the Lorde.

  • 2 Cor 10:8
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    8For though I shoulde boast my selfe somwhat more of our auctoritie, which the Lorde hath geuen to vs for edification, and not for your destruction, it shal not be to my shame:

  • Gal 6:14
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    14God forbyd that I shoulde reioyce, but in the crosse of our Lorde Iesus Christe, wherby the world is crucified vnto me, and I vnto the worlde.

  • 2 Cor 11:21
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    21I speake concernyng reproche, as though we had ben weake: Howbeit, wherin soeuer any man is bolde, (I speake foolishly) I am bolde also.

  • 2 Cor 12:13
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    13For what is it, wherin ye were inferiour vnto other Churches, except it be that I was not chargeable vnto you? Forgeue me this wrong.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12But what I do, that wyll I do, to cut away occasion from them which desire occasion, that they myght be founde lyke vnto vs, in yt wherin they gloried.

  • 2 Cor 7:4
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    4I am very bolde ouer you, I reioyce greatly in you. I am fylled with comfort, and am exceedyng ioyous in all our tribulation.

  • 1 Cor 1:29
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    29That no fleshe shoulde reioyce in his presence.

  • 1 Cor 15:10
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    10But by the grace of God, I am that I am: And his grace which is in me, was not in vayne: But I laboured more aboundauntly then they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which is with me.

  • 2 Cor 13:3-4
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    3Seyng yt ye seeke experience of Christe which speaketh in me, which to you ward is not weake, but is mighty in you.

    4For though he was crucified of weakenesse, yet liueth he of the power of God. And we no doubt, are weake in hym: but we shall lyue with hym, by ye might of God towarde you.

  • Gal 4:13
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    13Ye knowe howe through infirmitie of the fleshe, I preached the Gospell vnto you at the first:

  • 2 Cor 10:12-13
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    12For we dare not make our selues of the number of them, or to compare our selues to them which praise themselues. Neuerthelesse, whyle they measure them selues, with them selues, and compare them selues with them selues, they vnderstande not.

    13But we wyll not reioyce aboue measure: but accordyng to the measure of the rule, which God hath distributed vnto vs, a measure to reache euen vnto you.

  • Phil 3:4
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    4Though I might also haue confidence in the fleshe. If any other man thinketh that he hath wherof he myght trust in the fleshe, more I:

  • Gal 1:24
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    24And they glorified God in me.

  • Rom 15:1
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    1We whiche are stronge, ought to beare ye fraylnes of the weake, & not to stande in our owne conceiptes.

  • Phil 1:30
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    30Hauing the same fight, which ye sawe in me, and nowe heare in me.

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    7But we haue this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellencie of the power be Gods, and not ours.

  • 2 Cor 10:2
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    2I beseche you, that I neede not to be bolde when I am present, with that same boldnesse, wherwith I am supposed to haue ben bolde, agaynst some, which repute vs as though we walked accordyng to the fleshe.

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    14I am therefore not nowe ashamed, though I boasted my selfe to hym of you. For as all thinges which we spake vnto you are true: euen so our boastyng that I made vnto Titus is made true.

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    6And these thynges brethren, I haue figuratiuely applied vnto my selfe, and to Apollos, for your sakes, that ye might learne by vs, that no man conceaue in mynde aboue that whiche is written, that one swell not agaynst another for any mans cause.

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    5Not that we are sufficiet of our selues to thynke any thyng as of our selues: but our ablenesse is of God,

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    10We are fooles for Christes sake, but ye are wyse in Christe. We are weake, but ye are stronge. Ye are honorable, but we are despised.

  • 2 Cor 11:1
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    1Would to God ye coulde haue suffred me a litle in my foolishnesse: and in dede ye do forbeare me.