2 Corinthians 12:2

Coverdale Bible (1535)

I knowe a man in Christ aboue fourtene yeares a goo (whether he was in ye body, I can not tell: or whether he was out of the body, I can not tell, God knoweth.) the same was taken vp in to the thirde heauen:

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  • 2 Cor 11:11 : 11 Wherfore? because I shulde not loue you? God knoweth.
  • Acts 22:17 : 17 But it fortuned, that whan I was come agayne to Ierusale, and prayed in the temple, I was in a traunce,
  • 1 Thess 4:17 : 17 then shal we which lyue and remayne, be caught vp wt them also in the cloudes, to mete the LORDE in the ayre, and so shal we euer be with the LORDE.
  • Rev 12:5 : 5 And she brought forth a man childe, which shulde rule all nacions with a rod of yron. And her sonne was taken vp vnto God, and to his seate.
  • 2 Cor 5:17 : 17 Therfore yf eny man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Olde thinges are past awaye, beholde, all are become new.
  • Rom 16:7 : 7 Salute Andronicus & Iunia my cosens, & felowe presoners, which are awncient Apostles, & were before me in Christ.
  • 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 Of the same are ye also in Christ Iesu, which of God is made vnto vs wyssdome and righteousnes, and sanctifienge and redepcion,
  • 2 Cor 5:6-8 : 6 Therfore are we allwaye of good cheare, and knowe, that as longe as we dwell here in the body, we are not at home with the LORDE: 7 for we walke in faith, and se him not. 8 Neuertheles we are of good comforte, and had leuer to be absent from the body, & to be at home with the LORDE.
  • Rom 8:1 : 1 Then is there now no damnacion vnto the that are in Christ Iesu, which walke not after the flesh, but after ye sprete.
  • 2 Cor 12:3-5 : 3 and I knowe the same man (whether he was in ye body or out of the body, I can not tell, God knoweth) 4 how that he was take vp in to Paradise, and herde wordes not to be spoken, which no man can vtter. 5 Here of will I boast, but of my selfe wil I make no boast, excepte it be of myne infirmyties.
  • 2 Cor 13:5 : 5 Proue youre selues, whether ye are in the faith, exame youre selues. Or knowe ye not yor selues, yt Iesus Christ is in you? Excepte ye be cast awayes.
  • Gal 1:22 : 22 but of face I was vnknowne to ye Christen congregacions in Iewrye.
  • Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Christ Iesu nether is circumcision eny thinge worth ner vncircumcision, but faith which by loue is mightie in operacion.
  • Eph 4:10 : 10 He that came downe, is euen the same which is gone vp aboue all heauens, to fulfill all.
  • Phil 1:22-23 : 22 But in as moch as to lyue in ye flesh is frutefull to me for the worke, I wote not what 23 I shal chose, for both these thinges lye harde vpon me. I desyre to be lowsed, & to be with Christ, which thinge were moch better (for me)
  • Gen 1:14-20 : 14 And God sayde: let there be lightes in ye firmament of heauen, to deuyde the daye fro the night, that they maye be vnto tokes, seasons, dayes, and yeares. 15 And let them be lightes in ye firmament of heauen, to shyne vpon the earth: And so it came to passe. 16 And God made two greate lightes: one greater light to rule the daye, and a lesse light to rule the night, and (he made) starres also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of heauen, yt they might shyne vpo earth, 18 and to rule the daye and the night, and to deuyde the light from darcknes. And God sawe that it was good. 19 Then of the euenynge and mornynge was made the fourth daye. 20 And God sayde: let the waters brynge forth creatures that moue and haue life, & foules for to flye aboue the earth vnder the firmamet of heauen.
  • 1 Kgs 8:27 : 27 For thynkest thou yt God dwelleth vpon earth? Beholde, the heauens and the heauens of all heauens maye not contayne the: how shulde then this house do it, that I haue buylded?
  • 1 Kgs 18:12 : 12 Now whan I were gone from the, the sprete of the LORDE shulde take ye awaye, I can not tell whither: and yf I then came and tolde Achab, and founde the not, he shulde slaye me: But thy seruaunt feareth the LORDE from his youth vp.
  • 2 Kgs 2:16 : 16 and sayde vnto him: Beholde, there are fiftye valeaunt me amonge thy seruauntes, let them go and seke thy lorde, peraduenture the sprete of the LORDE hath taken him, and cast him vpon some mountaine or in some valley. But he saide: Sende them not.
  • Ps 148:4 : 4 Prayse him all ye heauens, & ye waters yt be vnder the heauens.
  • Isa 45:24-25 : 24 sayenge: Verely in the LORDE is my rightuousnes and strength. To him shal me come: but all they that thinke scorne of him, shalbe confounded. 25 And the whole sede of Israel shalbe iustified, & praysed in ye LORDE
  • Isa 57:15 : 15 For thus saieth the hie and excellet, euen he that dwelleth in euerlastingnesse, whose name is the holyone: I dwel hie aboue and in the sanctuary, & with him also, yt is of a cotrite and huble sprete: yt I maye heale a troubled mynde, and a cotrite herte.
  • Ezek 8:1-3 : 1 It happened, that in the sixte yeare, the fifth daye of the sixte Moneth I sat in my house, and the LORDES off the councell off Iuda with me: and the honde off the LORDE God fell euen there vpo me. 2 And as I loked vp, I sawe as it were a licknesse off fyre from his loynes downwarde, and from his loynes vpwarde it shyned maruelous cleare. 3 This symilitude stretched out an honde, and toke me by the hayrie lockes off my heade, and the sprete lift me vp betwixte heauen and earth: and God brought me in a vision to Ierusalem, in to the courte off the inwarde porte that lieth towarde the north: there stode an ymage, with whom he that hath all thinges in his power, was very wroth.
  • Ezek 11:24 : 24 sprete of God) it brought me agayne in to Caldea amonge the presoners. Then the vision that I had sene, vanyshed awaye fro me.
  • Luke 24:51 : 51 And it came to passe wha he blessed them, he departed from them, and was caried vp in to heauen.
  • John 6:56 : 56 Who so eateth my flesh, and drynketh my bloude, abydeth in me, and I in him.
  • John 15:4-6 : 4 Byde ye in me, and I in you. Like as ye braunch can not brynge forth frute of it self excepte it byde in the vyne, Euen so nether ye also, excepte ye abyde in me. 5 I am the vyne, ye are the braunches. He that abydeth in me, and I in him, the same bryngeth forth moch frute: for without me can ye do nothinge. 6 He that abydeth not in me, is cast out as a vyne braunche, and it wythereth, and men gather it vp, and cast it in to the fyre, and it burneth.
  • John 17:21-23 : 21 that they all maye be one, like as thou father art in me, and I in ye that they also maye be one in vs: that the worlde maye beleue, that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gauest me, haue I geuen them: that they maye be one, like as we are one. 23 I in the, and thou in me, that they maye be perfecte in one, and that the worlde maye knowe, that thou hast sent me and hast loued them, as thou hast loued me.
  • Acts 8:39-40 : 39 But whan they were come vp out of the water, the sprete of the LORDE toke Philippe awaye. And the Chamberlayne sawe him nomore. But he wente on his waye reioysinge. 40 As for Philippe, he was founde at Assdod, and walked aboute, and preached the Gospell vnto all the cities, tyll he came to Cesarea.
  • Acts 14:6 : 6 they perceaued it, and fled vnto lystra and Derba cities of ye countre of Licaonia, and vnto ye region that lyeth rounde aboute,
  • 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 for he hath made him which knewe no synne, to be synne for vs, yt we by his meanes shulde be that righteousnes, which before God is alowed.
  • Heb 9:24 : 24 For Christ is not entred into the holy places yt are made with handes (which are but symilitudes of true thinges) but in to the very heauen, for to apeare now before the face of God for vs:
  • Rev 1:10 : 10 I was in the sprete on a sondaye, and herde behynde me, a gret voyce, as it had bene of a trompe,
  • Rev 4:2 : 2 And immediatly I was in the sprete: & beholde, a seate was set in heauen, and one sat on the seate.

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    5Here of will I boast, but of my selfe wil I make no boast, excepte it be of myne infirmyties.

    6And though I wolde boast my selfe, I dyd not foolishly, for I wolde saye the trueth. But I refrayne my selfe, lest eny ma shulde thinke of me aboue yt he seyth in me, or heareth of me.

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