2 Corinthians 12:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

was caught up into paradise and heard things too sacred to be put into words, things that a person is not permitted to speak.

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Referenced Verses

  • Luke 23:43 : 43 And Jesus said to him,“I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.”
  • Rev 2:7 : 7 The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will permit him to eat from the tree of life that is in the paradise of God.’
  • Ezek 31:9 : 9 I made it beautiful with its many branches; all the trees of Eden, in the garden of God, envied it.

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    1Paul’s Thorn in the Flesh It is necessary to go on boasting. Though it is not profitable, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.

    2I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago(whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows) was caught up to the third heaven.

    3And I know that this man(whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows)

  • 2 Cor 12:5-8
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    5On behalf of such an individual I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except about my weaknesses.

    6For even if I wish to boast, I will not be a fool, for I would be telling the truth, but I refrain from this so that no one may regard me beyond what he sees in me or what he hears from me,

    7even because of the extraordinary character of the revelations. Therefore, so that I would not become arrogant, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to trouble me– so that I would not become arrogant.

    8I asked the Lord three times about this, that it would depart from me.

  • Rev 4:1-2
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    1The Amazing Scene in Heaven After these things I looked, and there was a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet said:“Come up here so that I can show you what must happen after these things.”

    2Immediately I was in the Spirit, and a throne was standing in heaven with someone seated on it!

  • 2 Cor 11:5-6
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    5For I consider myself not at all inferior to those“super-apostles.”

    6And even if I am unskilled in speaking, yet I am certainly not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this plain to you in everything in every way.

  • 1 Cor 14:2
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    2For the one speaking in a tongue does not speak to people but to God, for no one understands; he is speaking mysteries by the Spirit.

  • Gal 1:12
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    12For I did not receive it or learn it from any human source; instead I received it by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

  • Acts 22:17
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    17When I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance

  • Eph 3:3-5
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    3that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before briefly.

    4When reading this, you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ

    5(which was not disclosed to people in former generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit),

  • Rev 10:4
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    4When the seven thunders spoke, I was preparing to write, but just then I heard a voice from heaven say,“Seal up what the seven thunders spoke and do not write it down.”

  • 1 Cor 2:9
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    9But just as it is written,“Things that no eye has seen, or ear heard, or mind imagined, are the things God has prepared for those who love him.”

  • Acts 22:11
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    11Since I could not see because of the brilliance of that light, I came to Damascus led by the hand of those who were with me.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6I have applied these things to myself and Apollos because of you, brothers and sisters, so that through us you may learn“not to go beyond what is written,” so that none of you will be puffed up in favor of the one against the other.

  • Acts 9:7
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    7(Now the men who were traveling with him stood there speechless, because they heard the voice but saw no one.)

  • Gal 2:2
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    2I went there because of a revelation and presented to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I did so only in a private meeting with the influential people, to make sure that I was not running– or had not run– in vain.

  • 2 Cor 11:16-17
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    16Paul’s Sufferings for Christ I say again, let no one think that I am a fool. But if you do, then at least accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.

    17What I am saying with this boastful confidence I do not say the way the Lord would. Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.

  • Acts 4:20
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    20for it is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.”

  • 1 Cor 14:9
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    9It is the same for you. If you do not speak clearly with your tongue, how will anyone know what is being said? For you will be speaking into the air.

  • 2 Cor 12:10-11
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    10Therefore I am content with weaknesses, with insults, with troubles, with persecutions and difficulties for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.

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  • Eph 3:8
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    8To me– less than the least of all the saints– this grace was given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ

  • Gal 1:16
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    16to reveal his Son in me so that I could preach him among the Gentiles, I did not go to ask advice from any human being,

  • 1 Cor 2:14
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    14The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

  • Acts 22:9
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    9Those who were with me saw the light, but did not understand the voice of the one who was speaking to me.

  • Col 4:4
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    4Pray that I may make it known as I should.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.

  • Acts 22:6-7
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    6As I was en route and near Damascus, about noon a very bright light from heaven suddenly flashed around me.

    7Then I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me,‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me. In fact, it would be better for me to die than– no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting!

  • Acts 9:4
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    4He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him,“Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”

  • Rev 11:12
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    12Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them:“Come up here!” So the two prophets went up to heaven in a cloud while their enemies stared at them.

  • Col 2:4
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    4I say this so that no one will deceive you through arguments that sound reasonable.

  • 1 Cor 4:4
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    4For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not acquitted because of this. The one who judges me is the Lord.

  • Acts 26:19
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    19“Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

  • 2 Cor 11:30
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    30If I must boast, I will boast about the things that show my weakness.

  • Eph 4:9
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    9Now what is the meaning of“he ascended,” except that he also descended to the lower regions, namely, the earth?

  • 2 Cor 12:13
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    13For how were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this injustice!

  • 1 Thess 4:17-18
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    17Then we who are alive, who are left, will be suddenly caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.

    18Therefore encourage one another with these words.

  • 2 Cor 4:4
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    4among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who do not believe so they would not see the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God.

  • Rom 15:18
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    18For I will not dare to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in order to bring about the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,