--- title: "2 Corinthians 12:1-47 KJV - \"It is not expedient for me doubtless t...\" | Real Bible Believers" description: "\"It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. I knew a man in Christ above fo\" — Read 2 Corinthians 12:1-47 in the King James Version (KJV) with commentary, cross references, and Greek/Hebrew lexicon." image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/2-corinthians/12/1-47" --- [ Read](/kjv/2-corinthians/12)[ Commentary](/study/2-corinthians/12)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/2-corinthians/12) Audio ## 2 Corinthians 12:1-47 in Context (Verses 1–21 KJV) [1 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/12/1) It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. [2 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/12/2) I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. [3 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/12/3) And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) [4 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/12/4) How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. [5 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/12/5) Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities. [6 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/12/6) For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but *now* I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me *to be*, or *that* he heareth of me. [7 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/12/7) And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. [8 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/12/8) For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. [9 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/12/9) And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. [10 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/12/10) Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. [11 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/12/11) I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing. [12 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/12/12) Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. [13 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/12/13) For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except *it be* that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong. [14 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/12/14) Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome 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. [15 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/12/15) And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. [16 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/12/16) But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. [17 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/12/17) Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? [18 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/12/18) I desired Titus, and with *him* I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? *walked we* not in the same steps? [19 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/12/19) Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but *we do* all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying. [20 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/12/20) For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and *that* I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest *there be* debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: [21 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/12/21) *And* lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and *that* I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed. 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