12:1
si gloriari oportet non expedit quidem veniam autem advisiones et revelationes Domini

12:2
scio hominem in Christo ante annos quattuordecim sive incorpore nescio sive extra corpus nescio Deus scit raptumeiusmodi usque ad tertium caelum

12:3
et scio huiusmodi hominem sive in corpore sive extra corpusnescio Deus scit

12:4
quoniam raptus est in paradisum et audivit arcana verbaquae non licet homini loqui

12:5
pro eiusmodi gloriabor pro me autem nihil gloriabor nisi ininfirmitatibus meis

12:6
nam et si voluero gloriari non ero insipiens veritatem enimdicam parco autem ne quis in me existimet supra id quod videtme aut audit ex me

12:7
et ne magnitudo revelationum extollat me datus est mihistimulus carnis meae angelus Satanae ut me colaphizet

12:8
propter quod ter Dominum rogavi ut discederet a me

12:9
et dixit mihi sufficit tibi gratia mea nam virtus ininfirmitate perficitur libenter igitur gloriabor ininfirmitatibus meis ut inhabitet in me virtus Christi

12:10
propter quod placeo mihi in infirmitatibus in contumeliisin necessitatibus in persecutionibus in angustiis pro Christocum enim infirmor tunc potens sum

12:11
factus sum insipiens vos me coegistis ego enim debui avobis commendari nihil enim minus fui ab his qui sunt supramodum apostoli tametsi nihil sum

12:12
signa tamen apostoli facta sunt super vos in omnipatientia signis et prodigiis et virtutibus

12:13
quid est enim quod minus habuistis prae ceteris ecclesiisnisi quod ego ipse non gravavi vos donate mihi hanc iniuriam

12:14
ecce tertio hoc paratus sum venire ad vos et non erogravis vobis non enim quaero quae vestra sunt sed vos nec enimdebent filii parentibus thesaurizare sed parentes filiis

12:15
ego autem libentissime inpendam et superinpendar ipse proanimabus vestris licet plus vos diligens minus diligar

12:16
sed esto ego vos non gravavi sed cum essem astutus dolovos cepi

12:17
numquid per aliquem eorum quos misi ad vos circumveni vos

12:18
rogavi Titum et misi cum illo fratrem numquid Titus voscircumvenit nonne eodem spiritu ambulavimus nonne hisdemvestigiis

12:19
olim putatis quod excusemus nos apud vos coram Deo inChristo loquimur omnia autem carissimi propter vestramaedificationem

12:20
timeo enim ne forte cum venero non quales volo inveniamvos et ego inveniar a vobis qualem non vultis ne fortecontentiones aemulationes animositates dissensionesdetractiones susurrationes inflationes seditiones sint intervos

12:21
ne iterum cum venero humiliet me Deus apud vos et lugeammultos ex his qui ante peccaverunt et non egerunt paenitentiamsuper inmunditia et fornicatione et inpudicitia quam gesserunt

Continued...

012:001
It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

012:002
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.

012:003
And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)

012:004
How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

012:005
Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.

012:006
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.

012:007
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.

012:008
For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

012:009
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.

012:010
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.

012:011
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.

012:012
Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

012:013
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.

012:014
Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not your's but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

012:015
And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

012:016
But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

012:017
Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?

012:018
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?

012:019
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.

012:020
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:

012:021
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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