2 Corinthians 12:6

Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,

are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.

When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.

I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.

For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I’m not lying.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ,

to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

“But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be like pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will harass you in the land in which you dwell.

Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’ ”

But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went into Yahweh’s temple to burn incense on the altar of incense.

As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him; for they said, “He is insane.”

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.

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Now I mean this, that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” and, “I follow Christ.”

For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.

Therefore you and all your company have gathered together against Yahweh! What is Aaron that you complain against him?”

Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the middle of Israel.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh.

So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

“ ‘ “There will be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are around them that scorned them. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”

“For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.

I and the Father are one.”

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news”, which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough.

As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles—

but you know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

of which I was made a servant according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,

For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.

For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed,

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie.

By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.