2 Corinthians 12:5
Good News Translation
So I will boast about this man--but I will not boast about myself, except the things that show how weak I am.

New Revised Standard Version
On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses.

Contemporary English Version
I will brag about that man, but not about myself, except to say how weak I am.

New American Bible
About this person I will boast, but about myself I will not boast, except about my weaknesses.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For such an one I will glory: but for myself I will glory nothing but in my infirmities.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

such.

2 Corinthians 12:2-4 I know a man in Christ: above fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not, or out of the body, I know not: God knoweth), such a one caught up to the third heaven. . . .

yet.

2 Corinthians 12:9,10 And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. . . .

2 Corinthians 11:30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my infirmity.

Context
Paul's Thorn and God's Grace
4That he was caught up into paradise and heard secret words which it is not granted to man to utter. 5For such an one I will glory: but for myself I will glory nothing but in my infirmities. 6For though I should have a mind to glory, I shall not be foolish: for I will say the truth. But I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth in me, or any thing he heareth from me.…
Cross References
Matthew 8:17
That it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the prophet Isaias, saying: He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.

1 Corinthians 2:3
And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.

2 Corinthians 12:1
If I must glory (it is not expedient indeed) but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 12:9
And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

2 Corinthians 12:4
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