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But I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth in me, or any thing he heareth from me.", "citation": "2 Corinthians 12:6 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 7, "text": "And lest the greatness of the revelations should exalt me, there was given me a sting of my flesh, an angel of Satan, to buffet me.", "citation": "2 Corinthians 12:7 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 8, "text": "For which thing, thrice I besought the Lord that it might depart from me.", "citation": "2 Corinthians 12:8 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 9, "text": "And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me.", "citation": "2 Corinthians 12:9 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 10, "text": "For which cause I please myself in my infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ. For when I am weak, then am I powerful.", "citation": "2 Corinthians 12:10 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 11, "text": "I am become foolish. You have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended by you. For I have no way come short of them that are above measure apostles, although I be nothing.", "citation": "2 Corinthians 12:11 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 12, "text": "Yet the signs of my apostleship have been wrought on you, in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds.", "citation": "2 Corinthians 12:12 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 13, "text": "For what is there that you have had less than the other churches but that I myself was not burthensome to you? Pardon me this injury.", "citation": "2 Corinthians 12:13 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 14, "text": "Behold now the third time I am ready to come to you and I will not be burthensome unto you. For I seek not the things that are yours, but you. For neither ought the children to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.", "citation": "2 Corinthians 12:14 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 15, "text": "But I most gladly will spend and be spent myself for your souls: although loving you more, I be loved less.", "citation": "2 Corinthians 12:15 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 16, "text": "But be it so: I did not burthen you: but being crafty, I caught you by guile.", "citation": "2 Corinthians 12:16 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 17, "text": "Did I overreach you by any of them whom I sent to you?", "citation": "2 Corinthians 12:17 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 18, "text": "I desired Titus: and I sent with him a brother. Did Titus overreach you? Did we not walk with the same spirit? Did we not in the same steps?", "citation": "2 Corinthians 12:18 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 19, "text": "Of old, think you that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ: but all things, my dearly beloved, for your edification.", "citation": "2 Corinthians 12:19 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 20, "text": "For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you.", "citation": "2 Corinthians 12:20 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 21, "text": "Lest again, when I come, God humble me among you: and I mourn many of them that sinned before and have not done penance for the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness that they have committed.", "citation": "2 Corinthians 12:21 (Douay-Rheims)" } ] }