2 corinthians 12   e/?search=2%20corinthians%2012&vers ion=niv new international version pauls vision and his thorn > 12 i must go on boasting. although there is nothing to be gained, i will go on to visions and revelations from the lord. 2 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 the body i do not knowgod knows. 3 and i know that this manwhether in the body or apart from the body i do not know, but god knows 4 was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell. 5 i will boast about a man like that, but i will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses. 6 even if i should choose to boast, i would not be a fool, 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. therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, i was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of satan, to torment me. 8 three times i pleaded with the lord to take it away from me. 9 but he said to me, my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. therefore i will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that christs power may rest on me. 10 that is why, for christs sake, i delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. for when i am weak, then i am strong.
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