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2 Corinthians 12:6-8
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2 Corinthians 12:6-8
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6 Even if I should choose to boast,(A) I would not be a fool,(B) because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say, 7 or because of these surpassingly great revelations.(C) Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh,(D) a messenger of Satan,(E) to torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.(F)
2 Corinthians 12:6-8
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2 Corinthians 12:6-8
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6 But if I wanted to say more about myself, I would not be a fool, because I would be telling the truth. But I won’t say any more, because I don’t want people to think more of me than what they see me do or hear me say.
7 But I must not be too proud of the wonderful things that were shown to me. So a painful problem[a] was given to me—an angel from Satan, sent to make me suffer, so that I would not think that I am better than anyone else. 8 I begged the Lord three times to take this problem away from me.
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- 2 Corinthians 12:7 painful problem Literally, “thorn in the flesh.”
2 Corinthians 12:6-8
New American Standard Bible
2 Corinthians 12:6-8
New American Standard Bible
6 For if I do wish to boast I will not be (A)foolish, (B)for I will be speaking the truth; but I refrain from this, so that no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me.
A Thorn in the Flesh
7 Because of the extraordinary greatness of the (C)revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given to me a (D)thorn in the flesh, a (E)messenger of Satan to [a]torment me—to keep me from exalting myself! 8 Concerning this I pleaded with the Lord (F)three times that it might leave me.
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- 2 Corinthians 12:7 Lit beat
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