2 Corinthians 12:5

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 2:3 : 3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
  • 2 Cor 11:30 : 30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
  • 2 Cor 12:9-9 : 9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

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

    30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.

  • 2 Cor 12:6-11
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    6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.

    7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

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

    9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

    10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

    11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

  • 2 Cor 12:1-4
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    1 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

    2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

    3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)

    4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

  • 2 Cor 11:16-18
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    16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.

    17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

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

  • Rom 15:17-18
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    17 I have therefore whereof I may glory thugh Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.

    18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wught by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,

  • 2 Cor 10:16-18
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    16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.

    17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

    18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.

  • 2 Cor 5:12
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    12 For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.

  • 2 Cor 11:5
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    5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

  • 2 Cor 11:10
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    10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

  • Eph 3:13
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    13 Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

  • 1 Cor 1:31
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    31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 10:8
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    8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

  • Gal 6:14
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    14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

  • 2 Cor 11:21
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    21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

  • 2 Cor 12:13
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    13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

  • 2 Cor 7:4
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    4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.

  • 1 Cor 1:29
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    29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.

  • 1 Cor 15:10
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    10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

  • 2 Cor 13:3-4
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    3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.

    4 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.

  • Gal 4:13
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    13 Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

  • 2 Cor 10:12-13
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    12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.

    13 But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.

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

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

  • Rom 15:1
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    1 We then that are stng ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

  • Phil 1:30
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    30 Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

  • 2 Cor 4:7
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    7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

  • 2 Cor 10:2
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    2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

  • 2 Cor 7:14
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    14 For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

  • 2 Cor 3:5
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    5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

  • 1 Cor 4:10
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    10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.

  • 2 Cor 11:1
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    1 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.