2 Corinthians 12:5

Geneva Bible (1560)

Of such a man will I reioyce: of my selfe will I not reioyce, except it bee of mine infirmities.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 2:3 : 3 And I was among you in weakenesse, and in feare, and in much trembling.
  • 2 Cor 11:30 : 30 If I must needes reioyce, I will reioyce of mine infirmities.
  • 2 Cor 12:9-9 : 9 And he said vnto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my power is made perfect through weakenesse. Very gladly therefore will I reioyce rather in mine infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproches, in necessities, in persecutions, in anguish for Christes sake: for when I am weake, then am I strong.

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  • 2 Cor 11:29-30
    2 verses
    89%

    29Who is weake, and I am not weake? who is offended, and I burne not?

    30If I must needes reioyce, I will reioyce of mine infirmities.

  • 2 Cor 12:6-11
    6 verses
    85%

    6For though I woulde reioyce, I should not be a foole, for I will say the trueth: but I refraine, lest any man should thinke of me aboue that hee seeth in me, or that he heareth of me.

    7And lest I should be exalted out of measure through the aboundance of reuelations, there was giuen vnto me a pricke in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet mee, because I should not be exalted out of measure.

    8For this thing I besought the Lord thrise, that it might depart from me.

    9And he said vnto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my power is made perfect through weakenesse. Very gladly therefore will I reioyce rather in mine infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

    10Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproches, in necessities, in persecutions, in anguish for Christes sake: for when I am weake, then am I strong.

    11I was a foole to boast my selfe: yee haue compelled mee: for I ought to haue bene commended of you: for in nothing was I inferiour vnto the very chiefe Apostles, though I bee nothing.

  • 2 Cor 12:1-4
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    1It is not expedient for me no doubt to reioyce: for I will come to visions and reuelations of the Lorde.

    2I know a man in Christ aboue fourteene yeeres agone, (whether he were in the body, I can not tell, or out of the body, I can not tell: God knoweth) which was taken vp into the thirde heauen.

    3And I knowe such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I can not tell: God knoweth)

    4How that he was taken vp into Paradise, and heard words which cannot be spoken, which are not possible for man to vtter.

  • 2 Cor 11:16-18
    3 verses
    79%

    16I say againe, Let no man thinke that I am foolish, or els take mee euen as a foole, that I also may boast my selfe a litle.

    17That I speake, I speake it not after the Lord: but as it were foolishly, in this my great boasting.

    18Seeing that many reioyce after the flesh, I will reioyce also.

  • Rom 15:17-18
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    17I haue therefore whereof I may reioyce in Christ Iesus in those things which pertaine to God.

    18For I dare not speake of any thing, which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient in worde and deede,

  • 2 Cor 10:16-18
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    16And to preache the Gospel in those regions which are beyonde you: not to reioyce in another mans line, that is, in the thinges that are prepared alreadie.

    17But let him that reioyceth, reioyce in the Lorde.

    18For hee that praiseth himselfe, is not alowed, but he whome the Lorde praiseth.

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

  • 2 Cor 11:5
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    5Verely I suppose that I was not inferior to the very chiefe Apostles.

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

  • Eph 3:13
    74%

    13Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for your sakes, which is your glory.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15But I haue vsed none of these things: neither wrote I these things, that it should be so done vnto me: for it were better for me to die, then that any man should make my reioycing vaine.

  • 1 Cor 1:31
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    31That, according as it is written, Hee that reioyceth, let him reioyce in the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 10:8
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    8For though I shoulde boast somewhat more of our authoritie, which the Lorde hath giuen vs for edification, and not for your destruction, I should haue no shame.

  • Gal 6:14
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    14But God forbid that I should reioyce, but in ye crosse of our Lord Iesus Christ, whereby the world is crucified vnto me, & I vnto ye world.

  • 2 Cor 11:21
    73%

    21I speake as concerning the reproche: as though that we had bene weake: but wherein any ma is bold (I speake foolishly) I am bold also.

  • 2 Cor 12:13
    72%

    13For what is it, wherein yee were inferiours vnto other Churches, except that I haue not bene slouthfull to your hinderance? forgiue me this wrong.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12But what I doe, that will I doe: that I may cut away occasion from them which desire occasion, that they might be found like vnto vs in that wherein they reioyce.

  • 2 Cor 7:4
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    4I vse great boldnesse of speach toward you: I reioyce greatly in you: I am filled with comfort, and am exceeding ioyous in all our tribulation.

  • 1 Cor 1:29
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    29That no flesh 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 vaine: but I laboured more aboundantly then they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which is with me.

  • 2 Cor 13:3-4
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    3Seeing that ye seeke experience of Christ, that speaketh in mee, which towarde you is not weake, but is mightie in you.

    4For though hee was crucified concerning his infirmitie, yet liueth hee through the power of God; wee no doubt are weake in him, but we shall liue with him, through the power of God towarde you.

  • Gal 4:13
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    13And ye know, how through infirmitie of the flesh, I preached ye Gospel vnto you at the first.

  • 2 Cor 10:12-13
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    12For wee dare not make our selues of the nomber, or to compare our selues to them, which praise themselues: but they vnderstand not that they measure themselues with themselues, and compare themselues with themselues.

    13But we wil not reioyce of things, which are not within our measure, but according to the measure of the line, whereof God hath distributed vnto vs a measure to attaine euen vnto you.

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

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

  • Rom 15:1
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    1We which are strong, ought to beare the infirmities of the weake, & not to please our selues.

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

  • 2 Cor 4:7
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    7But we haue this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellencie of that power might be of God, and not of vs.

  • 2 Cor 10:2
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    2And this I require you, that I neede not to be bolde when I am present, with that same confidence, wherewith I thinke to bee bolde against some, which esteeme vs as though wee walked according to the flesh.

  • 2 Cor 7:14
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    14For if that I haue boasted any thing to him of you, I haue not bene ashamed: but as I haue spoken vnto you all things in trueth, euen so our boasting vnto Titus was true.

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    6Nowe these things, brethren, I haue figuratiuely applied vnto mine owne selfe and Apollos, for your sakes, that ye might learne by vs, that no man presume aboue that which is written, that one swell not against another for any mans cause.

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    5Not that we are sufficient of our selues, to thinke any thing, as of our selues: but our sufficiencie is of God,

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    10We are fooles for Christes sake, and ye are wise in Christ: we are weake, and ye are strong: ye are honourable, and we are despised.

  • 2 Cor 11:1
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    1Woulde to God, yee coulde suffer a litle my foolishnes, & in deede, ye suffer me.