5I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses.


In Context

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 know--God knows.

3 And I know that this man--whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows--

4 was caught up to paradise. He heard inexpressible things, things that man is not 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 To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

2nd Corinthians 12:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:5Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:5Of such one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in my infirmities.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:5For such an one I will glory; but for myself I will glory nothing, but in my infirmities.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:5On behalf of such a one will I glory: but on mine own behalf I will not glory, save in my weaknesses.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:5Of such a one I will boast, but of myself I will not boast, unless in my weaknesses.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:5On behalf of such a one will I glory: but on mine own behalf I will not glory, save in my weaknesses.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:5On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:5Of such an one I will boast, and of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:5Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in my infirmities.