These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
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2 Corinthians 12
Brit Hadashah 21 verses
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I am compelled to boast. It is not a profitable employment, but I will proceed to visions and revelations granted me by the Lord.
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Galatians 2:2 Galatians 1:12 2 Corinthians 12:7 2 Corinthians 12:11 Acts 9:10-17 Acts 22:17-21 John 18:14 2 Corinthians 11:16-30 John 16:7 Numbers 12:6 Joel 2:28-29 Daniel 10:5-10 Acts 23:11 1 Corinthians 10:23 Acts 18:9 Ezekiel 1:1-28 Ezekiel 11:24 Ephesians 3:3 1 John 5:20 1 Corinthians 6:12 2 Corinthians 8:10 Acts 26:13-19 -
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I a Messiahian man who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not , or out of the body I do not ; knows—was caught up (this man of whom I am speaking)
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2 Corinthians 11:11 Acts 22:17 1 Thessalonians 4:17 Revelation 12:5 Romans 16:7 2 Corinthians 5:17 Genesis 1:14-20 2 Corinthians 5:21 Hebrews 9:24 Philippians 1:22-23 Ezekiel 8:1-3 John 6:56 1 Kings 18:12 John 17:21-23 Revelation 4:2 1 Kings 8:27 2 Corinthians 13:5 Psalm 148:4 Acts 8:39-40 Luke 24:51 Galatians 1:22 Acts 14:6 2 Corinthians 12:3-5 Isaiah 45:24-25 2 Kings 2:16 2 Corinthians 5:6-8 Romans 8:1 John 15:4-6 Revelation 1:10 Ephesians 4:10 1 Corinthians 1:30 Galatians 5:6 Isaiah 57:15 Ezekiel 11:24 - 3 And I that this man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not ;
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knows—was caught up into Paradise and heard unspeakable things which no human being is permitted to repeat.
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Of such a one I will boast; but of myself I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.
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- 6 If however I should choose to boast, I should not be a fool for so doing, for I should be speaking the . But I forbear, lest any one should be led to estimate me more highly than what his own eyes attest, or more highly than what he hears from my lips.
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And judging by the stupendous grandeur of the revelations—therefore lest I should be over-elated there has been sent to me, like the agony of impalement, Satan’s dealing blow after blow, lest I should be over-elated.
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1 Corinthians 5:5 Daniel 5:20 2 Chronicles 26:16 Judges 2:3 Numbers 33:55 2 Chronicles 32:25-26 Job 2:7 Galatians 4:13 Deuteronomy 17:20 Deuteronomy 8:14 Ezekiel 28:24 1 Timothy 3:6 2 Chronicles 32:31 Luke 13:16 2 Corinthians 11:20 1 Corinthians 4:11 2 Corinthians 10:5 Genesis 32:31 Matthew 26:67 Genesis 32:25 -
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As for this, three times have I besought the Lord to rid me of him;
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but His reply has been, “My suffices for you, for power matures in weakness.” Most gladly therefore will I boast of my infirmities rather than complain of them—in order that Messiah’s power may overshadow me.
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2 Corinthians 12:10 Philippians 4:13 Ephesians 3:16 Isaiah 40:29-31 1 Corinthians 10:13 Isaiah 43:2 2 Corinthians 12:5 1 Peter 4:13-14 Deuteronomy 33:25-27 Hebrews 4:16 2 Corinthians 3:5-6 1 Timothy 1:14 Matthew 5:11-12 Luke 21:15 Exodus 4:10-15 Joshua 1:9 Hebrews 11:34 Matthew 10:19-20 Daniel 10:16-19 Isaiah 35:3-4 1 Corinthians 15:10 Colossians 1:28-29 Matthew 28:20 1 Corinthians 2:5 Colossians 1:11 Zephaniah 3:17 Jeremiah 1:6-9 Psalm 8:2 2 Corinthians 11:30 Isaiah 41:13-16 Matthew 28:18 Isaiah 4:5-6 2 Corinthians 12:15 Isaiah 11:2 2 Kings 2:15 Exodus 3:11-12 -
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In fact I take pleasure in infirmities, in the bearing of insults, in distress, in persecutions, in grievous difficulties—for Messiah’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
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2 Corinthians 13:4 Romans 5:3 2 Corinthians 12:9 James 1:2 2 Corinthians 6:4 1 Peter 1:6-7 Philippians 2:17-18 2 Corinthians 5:15 Ephesians 6:10 Luke 6:22 2 Corinthians 13:9 2 Corinthians 1:4 2 Corinthians 4:8-11 2 Corinthians 10:18 1 Peter 4:13-14 Romans 8:35-39 Revelation 2:3 Acts 5:41 Colossians 1:24 2 Corinthians 4:5 2 Corinthians 7:4 2 Thessalonians 1:4 John 15:21 2 Corinthians 11:23-30 Philippians 1:29 2 Corinthians 4:17 1 Corinthians 4:10 - 11 It is foolish of me to write all this, but you have compelled me to do so. Why, you ought to have been my vindicators; for in no respect have I been inferior to these superlatively great Apostles, even though in myself I am nothing.
- 12 The signs that characterize the true Apostle have been done among you, accompanied by unwearied fortitude, and by tokens and marvels and displays of power.
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In what respect, therefore, have you been worse dealt with than other Churches, except that I myself never hung as a dead weight upon you? Forgive the injustice I thus did you!
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See, I am now for the third time prepared to visit you, but I will not be a dead weight to you. I desire not your money, but yourselves; for children ought not to put by for their parents, but parents for their children.
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Proverbs 19:14 2 Corinthians 1:15 1 Corinthians 10:33 1 Corinthians 4:14-15 Proverbs 13:22 Proverbs 11:30 Genesis 31:14-15 Genesis 24:35-36 Acts 20:33 Philippians 4:1 2 Corinthians 13:1-2 1 Thessalonians 2:19-20 Ezekiel 34:2 1 Peter 5:2-4 1 Corinthians 4:19 1 Thessalonians 2:5-6 1 Corinthians 10:24 1 Thessalonians 2:8 1 Thessalonians 2:11 Philippians 4:17 1 Corinthians 16:5 1 Corinthians 11:34 -
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And as for me, most gladly will I spend all I have and be utterly spent for your .
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1 Thessalonians 2:8 Philippians 2:17 2 Corinthians 1:6 Colossians 1:24 2 Timothy 2:10 2 Corinthians 2:3 Hebrews 13:17 2 Corinthians 6:12-13 2 Corinthians 1:14 John 10:10-11 2 Samuel 17:1-4 2 Corinthians 12:14 2 Corinthians 7:3 Galatians 4:10 2 Samuel 13:39 2 Samuel 18:33 2 Corinthians 12:9 1 Corinthians 4:8-18 - 16 If I you so intensely, am I the less to be loved? Be that as it may: I was not a burden to you. But being by no means scrupulous, I entrapped you, they say!
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Have I gained any selfish advantage over you through any one of the messengers I have sent to you?
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- 18 I begged Titus to visit you, and sent our other brother with him. Did Titus gain any selfish advantage over you? Were not he and I guided by one and the same , and did we not walk in the same steps?
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You are imagining, all this time, that we are making our defense at your bar. In reality it is as in Elohim’s presence and in communion with that we speak; but, dear friends, it is all with a view to your progress in goodness.
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For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may not find you to be what I desire, and that you may find me to be what you do not desire; that perhaps there may be contention, jealousy, bitter feeling, party , ill-natured talk, backbiting, undue eulogy, unrest;
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1 Corinthians 1:11 Romans 1:29 1 Peter 2:1 Galatians 5:15 Psalm 41:7 2 Corinthians 12:21 James 3:14-16 2 Corinthians 1:23 James 4:1-5 1 Corinthians 4:6-8 1 Corinthians 6:7-8 1 Corinthians 11:16-19 2 Corinthians 10:8-9 2 Corinthians 10:6 2 Peter 2:18 1 Corinthians 3:3-4 2 Corinthians 10:2 1 Corinthians 5:3-5 2 Corinthians 13:9-10 Galatians 5:26 Jude 1:16 Ephesians 4:31-32 1 Corinthians 14:36-37 1 Corinthians 4:18-21 2 Corinthians 13:2 1 Corinthians 14:33 Galatians 5:19-21 Proverbs 16:28 -
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and that upon re-visiting you I may be humbled by my in your presence, and may have to mourn over many whose hearts still cling to their old sins, and who have not repented of the impurity, fornication, and gross sensuality, of which they have been guilty.
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2 Corinthians 13:2 Galatians 5:19 1 Corinthians 5:1 Colossians 3:5 Luke 9:41-42 Psalm 119:136 Deuteronomy 9:25 Revelation 22:20 Revelation 22:15 Jeremiah 13:17 Ezra 9:3 1 Thessalonians 4:3-7 2 Corinthians 8:24 1 Corinthians 5:9-11 Ezra 10:1 Romans 13:13 2 Peter 2:10-14 1 Corinthians 6:15-18 Revelation 21:8 2 Corinthians 7:9-11 Exodus 32:31 Romans 9:2 Jude 1:23 Deuteronomy 9:15 Philippians 3:18-19 1 Peter 4:2-3 Ephesians 5:5-6 Jeremiah 9:1 2 Corinthians 9:3-4 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 1 Samuel 15:35 Hebrews 13:4 Jude 1:7 2 Corinthians 12:7 2 Peter 2:18 2 Corinthians 2:1-11 2 Corinthians 10:6