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Although there is nothing to gain, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":2,"text":"I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of it I do not know, but God knows.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":3,"text":"And I know that this man—whether in the body or out of it I do not know, but God knows—","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":4,"text":"was caught up to Paradise. The things he heard were inexpressible, things that man is not permitted to tell.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"heading","text":"Paul’s Thorn and God’s Grace"},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":5,"text":"I will boast about such a man, but I will not boast about myself, except in my weaknesses.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":6,"text":"Even if I wanted to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me,","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":7,"text":"or because of these surpassingly great revelations.\nSo to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.","footnotes":[{"noteId":26,"offset":90,"text":"Some translators end the previous paragraph after verse 6, and begin verse 7 with So to keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations,","caller":"+"}]},{"type":"verse","number":8,"text":"Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":9,"text":"But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.","footnotes":[]},{"type":"verse","number":10,"text":"That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. 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