The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to Chaldea and to the exiles in a vision from the Spirit of God. After the vision I had seen left me,
2 Corinthians 12:1 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Boasting is necessary. It is not profitable, but I will move on to visions and revelations of the Lord. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition TRUE, THERE is nothing to be gained by it, but [as I am obliged] to boast, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. American Standard Version (1901) I must needs glory, though it is not expedient; but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. Common English Bible It is necessary to brag, not that it does any good. I’ll move on to visions and revelations from the Lord. Catholic Public Domain Version If it is necessary (though certainly not expedient) to glory, then I will next tell of visions and revelations from the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If I must glory (it is not expedient indeed): but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. |
The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to Chaldea and to the exiles in a vision from the Spirit of God. After the vision I had seen left me,
he said: ‘Listen to what I say: If there is a prophet among you from the Lord, I make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream.
Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth. It is for your benefit that I go away, because if I don’t go away the Counsellor will not come to you. If I go, I will send him to you.
Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it would be better for one man to die for the people.
The Lord said to Paul in a night vision, ‘Don’t be afraid, but keep on speaking and don’t be silent.
The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, ‘Have courage! For as you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so it is necessary for you to testify in Rome.’
‘Everything is permissible’, but not everything is beneficial. ‘Everything is permissible’, but not everything builds up.
So now, brothers and sisters, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I speak to you with a revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?
‘Everything is permissible for me,’ but not everything is beneficial. ‘Everything is permissible for me,’ but I will not be mastered by anything.
I have been a fool; you forced it on me. You ought to have commended me, since I am not in any way inferior to those ‘super-apostles’, even though I am nothing.
I will boast about this person, but not about myself, except of my weaknesses.
especially because of the extraordinary revelations. Therefore, so that I would not exalt myself, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to torment me so that I would not exalt myself.
But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is perfected in weakness.’ Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may reside in me.
And in this matter I am giving advice because it is profitable for you, who began last year not only to do something but also to want to do it.
For I did not receive it from a human source and I was not taught it, but it came by a revelation of Jesus Christ.
I went up according to a revelation and presented to them the gospel I preach among the Gentiles, but did so privately to those recognised as leaders. I wanted to be sure I was not running, and had not been running, in vain.
The mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have briefly written above.
For we say this to you by a word from the Lord: We who are still alive at the Lord’s coming will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep.
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true one. We are in the true one #– #that is, in his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.