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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "2CO-12:1",
        "verseRef": "2CO.12.1",
        "text": "I must needs glory, though it is not expedient; but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord."
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "2CO-12:2",
        "verseRef": "2CO.12.2",
        "text": "I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not; or whether out of the body, I know not; God knoweth), such a one caught up even to the third heaven."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "2CO-12:3",
        "verseRef": "2CO.12.3",
        "text": "And I know such a man (whether in the body, or apart from the body, I know not; God knoweth),"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "2CO-12:4",
        "verseRef": "2CO.12.4",
        "text": "how that he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "2CO-12:5",
        "verseRef": "2CO.12.5",
        "text": "On behalf of such a one will I glory: but on mine own behalf I will not glory, save in [my] weaknesses."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "2CO-12:6",
        "verseRef": "2CO.12.6",
        "text": "For if I should desire to glory, I shall not be foolish; for I shall speak the truth: but I forbear, lest any man should account of me above that which he seeth me [to be], or heareth from me."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "2CO-12:7",
        "verseRef": "2CO.12.7",
        "text": "And by reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I should not be exalted overmuch."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "2CO-12:8",
        "verseRef": "2CO.12.8",
        "text": "Concerning this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "2CO-12:9",
        "verseRef": "2CO.12.9",
        "text": "And he hath said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for [my] power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "2CO-12:10",
        "verseRef": "2CO.12.10",
        "text": "Wherefore 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."
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        "n": 11,
        "refId": "2CO-12:11",
        "verseRef": "2CO.12.11",
        "text": "I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "2CO-12:12",
        "verseRef": "2CO.12.12",
        "text": "Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, by signs and wonders and mighty works."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "2CO-12:13",
        "verseRef": "2CO.12.13",
        "text": "For what is there wherein ye were made inferior to the rest of the churches, except [it be] that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this wrong."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "2CO-12:14",
        "verseRef": "2CO.12.14",
        "text": "Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "2CO-12:15",
        "verseRef": "2CO.12.15",
        "text": "And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?"
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "2CO-12:16",
        "verseRef": "2CO.12.16",
        "text": "But be it so, I did not myself burden you; but, being crafty, I caught you with guile."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "2CO-12:17",
        "verseRef": "2CO.12.17",
        "text": "Did I take advantage of you by any one of them whom I have sent unto you?"
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "2CO-12:18",
        "verseRef": "2CO.12.18",
        "text": "I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? walked we not in the same spirit? [walked we] not in the same steps?"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "2CO-12:19",
        "verseRef": "2CO.12.19",
        "text": "Ye think all this time that we are excusing ourselves unto you. In the sight of God speak we in Christ. But all things, beloved, [are] for your edifying."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "2CO-12:20",
        "verseRef": "2CO.12.20",
        "text": "For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not; lest by any means [there should be] strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;"
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "2CO-12:21",
        "verseRef": "2CO.12.21",
        "text": "lest again when I come my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed."
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