2 Corinthians 12:7

World English Bible (2000)

By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

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  • 1 Cor 5:5 : 5 are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
  • Dan 5:20 : 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
  • Num 33:55 : 55 "But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will harass you in the land in which you dwell.
  • Judg 2:3 : 3 Therefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be [as thorns] in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you."
  • 2 Chr 26:16 : 16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went into the temple of Yahweh to burn incense on the altar of incense.
  • 2 Chr 32:25-26 : 25 But Hezekiah didn't render again according to the benefit done to him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem. 26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Yahweh didn't come on them in the days of Hezekiah.
  • 2 Chr 32:31 : 31 However in [the business of] the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
  • Job 2:7 : 7 So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.
  • Ezek 28:24 : 24 There shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are around them, that did despite to them; and they shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
  • Deut 8:14 : 14 then your heart be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
  • Deut 17:20 : 20 that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel.
  • Gal 4:13 : 13 but you know that because of weakness of the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.
  • 1 Tim 3:6 : 6 not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
  • 2 Cor 10:5 : 5 throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;
  • 2 Cor 11:20 : 20 For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.
  • Matt 26:67 : 67 Then they spit in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,
  • Luke 13:16 : 16 Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?"
  • 1 Cor 4:11 : 11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
  • Gen 32:25 : 25 When he saw that he didn't prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled.
  • Gen 32:31 : 31 The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.

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    8 Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.

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    10 Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

    11 I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

    12 Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty works.

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    1 It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

    2 I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don't know, or whether out of the body, I don't know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.

    3 I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I don't know; God knows),

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

    5 On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.

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  • 2 Cor 11:28-30
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    28 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies.

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    30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.

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    8 For though I should boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down) I will not be disappointed,

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    27 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

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    7 But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

  • 2 Cor 11:16-17
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    16 I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.

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    5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

  • 2 Cor 13:10
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    10 For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

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    13 but you know that because of weakness of the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.

    14 That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn't despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

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    11 that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

    12 Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,

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    11 persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. Out of them all the Lord delivered me.

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    8 To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

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    7 Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Good News free of charge?

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    13 Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

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    9 For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

    10 But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

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    15 But I have used none of these things, and I don't write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

  • 1 Cor 5:5
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    5 are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

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    8 For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

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    10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

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    6 Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many;

  • 1 Thess 3:5
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    5 For this cause I also, when I couldn't stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

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    1 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.

  • 1 Tim 1:16
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    16 However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience, for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

  • Phil 1:30
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    30 having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear is in me.

  • Gal 1:12
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    12 For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

  • Rom 15:17
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    17 I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

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    12 So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God.

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    12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall.