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2 Corinthians 12:6-8
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
2 Corinthians 12:6-8
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
6 Should I desire to boast, I shall not be a witless braggart, for I shall be speaking the truth. But I abstain [from it] so that no one may form a higher estimate of me than [is justified by] what he sees in me or hears from me.
7 And to keep me from being puffed up and too much elated by the exceeding greatness (preeminence) of these revelations, there was given me a thorn ([a]a splinter) in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to rack and buffet and harass me, to keep me from being excessively exalted.(A)
8 Three times I called upon the Lord and besought [Him] about this and begged that it might depart from me;
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- 2 Corinthians 12:7 James Moulton and George Milligan, The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament.
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