Paul’s Revelation 1It is not expedient doubtles, for me to glorie, I wyl come to visions & reuelations of the Lorde.
2For I knew a ma in Christe, aboue xiiij. yeres ago, (whether Paul’s Thorn and God’s Grace 5Of such a man wyll I glorie, yet of my selfe wyll I not glorie, but in myne infirmities.
6For though I woulde desire to glorie, I shall not be a foole, for I wyll say the trueth: but I nowe refrayne, lest any man shoulde thynke of me, aboue that which he seeth me to be, or yt he heareth of me.
7And lest I shoulde be exalted out of measure through the aboundaunce of the reuelations, there was geuen vnto me a pricke to the fleshe, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, because I should not be exalted out of measure.
8For this thyng besought I the Lorde thryse, that it myght depart from me.
9And he sayde vnto me: My grace is sufficient for thee. For my strength is made perfect in weakenesse. Most gladly therfore, I wyll rather glorie in my infirmities, that the power of Christ myght dwell in me.
10Therfore haue I delectation in infirmities, in rebukes, in necessities, in persecutions, in anguishes for Christes sake: For when I am weake, then am I strong. Paul’s Concern for the Corinthians 11I am become a foole
14Beholde, nowe the thirde tyme I am redy to come vnto you, and yet wyll I not be chargeable vnto you: For I seke not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay vp for the fathers and mothers: but the fathers and mothers for the chyldren.
15I wyll very gladly bestowe, & wylbe bestowed for your sakes, though the more aboundauntly I loue you, the lesse I am loued agayne.
16But be it,
19Agayne, thynke you that we excuse our selues vnto you? We speake in Christ in the syght of God: but |