2 Corinthians 12:7-9
1599 Geneva Bible
7 [a]And lest I should be exalted out of measure through the abundance of revelations, there was given unto me a [b]prick in the flesh, the messenger of [c]Satan to buffet me, because I should not be exalted out of measure.
8 For this thing I besought the Lord [d]thrice, that it might depart from me.
9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my power is made perfect through weakness. [e]Very gladly therefore will I rejoice rather in mine infirmities, that the power of Christ may [f]dwell in me.
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- 2 Corinthians 12:7 An excellent doctrine: why God will have even his best servants to be vexed of Satan and by all kinds of temptations, to wit, lest they should be too much puffed up, and also that they may be made perfect by that continual exercise.
- 2 Corinthians 12:7 He meaneth concupiscence, that sticketh fast in us, as it were a prick, insomuch that it constrained Paul himself being regenerate, to cry out, I do not that good that I would, etc. And he calleth it a prick, by a borrowed kind of speech taken from thorns, or stumps, which are very dangerous and hurtful for the feet, if a man walks through woods that are cut down.
- 2 Corinthians 12:7 Which setteth those lusts on fire.
- 2 Corinthians 12:8 Oft.
- 2 Corinthians 12:9 He concludeth, that he will only see his miseries against the vain brags of the false apostles, and therewith also excuseth himself, for that by their importunity, he was constrained to speak so much of these things as he did: to wit, because that if his Apostleship were subverted his doctrine must needs fall.
- 2 Corinthians 12:9 That I might feel the virtue of Christ more and more: For the weaker that our tabernacles are, the more doth Christ’s virtue appear in them.
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