1 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory ㆍ. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
[x]MKJV: Indeed, it is not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of [the] Lord.
BBE: As it is necessary for me to take glory to myself, though it is not a good thing, I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
KAV: 자랑하는 것이 물론 내게 유익하지 아니하나 내가 [주]의 환상들과 계시들로 나아가리라.
TSK: expedient: 2co 8:10, joh 16:7, joh 18:14, 1co 6:12, 1co 10:23; to glory: 2co 12:11, 2co 11:16-30; visions: 2co 12:7, nu 12:6, eze 1:1-28, eze 11:24, da 10:5-10, joe 2:28,29, ac 9:10-17, ac 18:9, ac 22:17-21, ac 23:11, ac 26:13-19, ga 1:12, ga 2:2, 1jo 5:202 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, ㆍ (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
[x]MKJV: I know a man in Christ fourteen years before (whether in [the] body, I do not know; or outside of [the] body, I do not know; God knows) such a one [was] caught up to [the] third Heaven.
BBE: I have knowledge of a man in Christ, fourteen years back (if he was in the body, or out of the body, I am not able to say, but God only), who was taken up to the third heaven.
KAV: 내가 그리스도 안에 있는 한 사람을 알았는데 그 사람은 십사여 년 전에 셋째 하늘로 채여 올라갔느니라. (몸 안에 있었는지 내가 말할 수 없으며 몸 밖에 있었는지 내가 말할 수 없으나 [하나님]은 아시느니라.)
TSK: knew: 2co 12:3,5; in Christ: 2co 5:17,21, 2co 13:5, isa 45:24,25, joh 6:56, joh 15:4-6, joh 17:21-23, ro 8:1, ro 16:7, 1co 1:30, ga 1:22, ga 5:6; in the: 2co 5:6-8, 1ki 18:12, 2ki 2:16, eze 8:1-3, eze 11:24, ac 8:39,40, ac 22:17, php 1:22,23, re 1:10, re 4:2; God: 2co 12:3, 2co 11:11; caught: 2co 12:4, lu 24:51, 1th 4:17, heb 9:24, re 12:5; third: ge 1:14-20, 1ki 8:27, isa 57:153 And I knew such a man, ㆍ (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
[x]MKJV: And I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I do not know; God knows),
BBE: And I have knowledge of such a man (if he was in the body, or out of the body, I am not able to say, but God only),
KAV: 내가 이러한 사람을 알았노니 (몸 안에 있었는지 몸 밖에 있었는지 내가 말할 수 없으나 [하나님]은 아시느니라.)4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
[x]MKJV: that he was caught up into Paradise and heard unspeakable words, which it is not allowed for a man to utter.
BBE: How he was taken up into Paradise, and words came to his ears which may not be said, and which man is not able to say.
KAV: 그가 낙원으로 채여 올라가서 말할 수 없는 말들을 들었는데 사람이 그것들을 말하는 것은 법에 어긋나느니라.
TSK: paradise: eze 31:9, lu 23:43, re 2:75 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.
[x]MKJV: I will glory of such a one, yet I will not boast on my behalf, except in my weaknesses.
BBE: On account of such a one I will have glory: for myself I will take no glory, but only in my feeble body.
KAV: 내가 이러한 사람에 관하여는 자랑하겠으나 내 자신에 관하여는 나의 연약한 것들 외에 자랑하지 아니하리라.
TSK: yet: 2co 12:9,10, 2co 11:306 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of ㆍ me.
[x]MKJV: For if I desire to boast, I shall not be foolish. For I will speak the truth. But I spare, lest anyone should think of me as [being] beyond what he sees me, or hears of me;
BBE: For if I had a desire to take credit to myself, it would not be foolish, for I would be saying what is true: but I will not, for fear that I might seem to any man more than he sees me to be, or has word from me that I am.
KAV: 내가 만일 자랑하려 해도 어리석은 자가 되지 아니하리니 나는 진실을 말하리라. 그러나 어떤 사람이 직접 나를 보는 것이나 혹은 나에 관하여 듣는 것 이상으로 나에 대해 생각할까 염려하여 이제 그만두노라.
TSK: I would: 2co 10:8, 2co 11:16, 1co 3:5,9,10; I will: 2co 1:18, 2co 11:31, job 24:25, ro 9:1; above that: 2co 12:7, 2co 10:9,107 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
[x]MKJV: and by the surpassing revelations, lest I be made haughty, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be made haughty.
BBE: And because the revelations were so very great, in order that I might not be overmuch lifted up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, one sent from Satan to give me pain.
KAV: 계시들이 넘침으로 말미암아 내가 분량 이상으로 높여지지 않게 하시려고 주께서 내게 육체 안에 가시 곧 사탄의 사자를 주사 나를 치게 하셨으니 이것은 내가 분량 이상으로 높여지지 않게 하려 하심이라.
TSK: lest: 2co 10:5, 2co 11:20, de 8:14, de 17:20, 2ch 26:16, 2ch 32:25,26,31, da 5:20, 1ti 3:6; a thorn: ge 32:25,31, jud 2:3, eze 28:24, ga 4:13; the messenger: job 2:7, lu 13:16, 1co 5:5; to buffet: mt 26:67, 1co 4:118 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
[x]MKJV: For this thing I besought the Lord three times, that it might depart from me.
BBE: And about this thing I made request to the Lord three times that it might be taken away from me.
KAV: 내가 이 일로 인하여 그것이 내게서 떠나가도록 [주]께 세 번 간청하였더니
TSK: I besought: de 3:23-27, 1sa 15:11, 2sa 12:16-18, ps 77:2-11, mt 20:21,22, mt 26:39-44, heb 5:79 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
[x]MKJV: And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may overshadow me.
BBE: And he said to me, My grace is enough for you, for my power is made complete in what is feeble. Most gladly, then, will I take pride in my feeble body, so that the power of Christ may be on me.
KAV: 그분께서 내게 이르시되, 내 은혜가 네게 족하도다. 나의 강한 능력은 약한 데서 완전해지느니라, 하셨느니라. 그러므로 내가 오히려 크게 기뻐하며 나의 연약한 것들을 자랑하리니 이것은 그리스도의 권능이 내 위에 머무르게 하려 함이라.
TSK: My grace: 2co 12:10, 2co 3:5,6, ex 3:11,12, ex 4:10-15, de 33:25-27, jos 1:9, isa 43:2, jer 1:6-9, mt 10:19,20, lu 21:15, 1co 10:13, 1co 15:10, col 1:28,29, 1ti 1:14, heb 4:16; for: ps 8:2, isa 35:3,4, isa 40:29-31, isa 41:13-16, da 10:16-19, eph 3:16, php 4:13, col 1:11, heb 11:34; Most: 2co 12:10,15, mt 5:11,12; glory: 2co 12:5, 2co 11:30; the power: 2ki 2:15, isa 4:5,6, isa 11:2, zep 3:17, mt 28:18,20, 1pe 4:13,1410 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
[x]MKJV: Therefore I am pleased in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am powerful.
BBE: So I take pleasure in being feeble, in unkind words, in needs, in cruel attacks, in troubles, on account of Christ: for when I am feeble, then am I strong.
KAV: 그러므로 내가 그리스도로 인하여 연약한 것들과 치욕과 궁핍과 핍박과 고난 당하는 것을 기뻐하노니 내가 약할 그때에 내가 강하니라.
TSK: I take: 2co 1:4, 2co 4:8-10,17, 2co 7:4, ac 5:41, ro 5:3, ro 8:35-39, php 1:29, php 2:17,18, col 1:24, jas 1:2, 1pe 1:6,7, 1pe 4:13,14; in infirmities: 2co 11:23-30; for Christ's: 2co 4:5,11, 2co 10:18, lu 6:22, joh 15:21, 1co 4:10, re 2:3; for when: 2co 12:9, 2co 13:4,9, eph 6:1011 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles ㆍ, though I be nothing.
[x]MKJV: I have become foolish boasting. You compelled me. For I ought to be commended by you. For I lacked nothing of the highest apostles, if even I am nothing.
BBE: I have been forced by you to become foolish, though it was right for my praise to have come from you: for in no way was I less than the chief of the Apostles, though I am nothing.
KAV: 내가 자랑함으로 어리석은 자가 되었거니와 너희가 억지로 나를 시켰느니라. 내가 너희에게서 칭찬을 받아야 마땅하노니 내가 아무것도 아닐지라도 무슨 일에서나 가장 으뜸가는 사도들보다 결코 뒤지지 아니하노라.
TSK: become: 2co 1:6, 2co 11:1,16,17; for in: 2co 12:12, 2co 11:5, 1co 3:4-7,22, ga 2:6-14; though: lu 17:10, 1co 3:7, 1co 15:8-10, eph 3:812 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.
[x]MKJV: Truly the signs of the apostle were worked out among you in all patience, in miracles and in wonders, and by works of power.
BBE: Truly the signs of an Apostle were done among you in quiet strength, with wonders and acts of power.
KAV: 진실로 내가 너희 가운데서 모든 인내와 표적들과 이적들과 능한 행위들로 사도의 표적들을 행하였노라.
TSK: Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.: 2co 4:2, 2co 6:4-10, 2co 11:4,6, ro 15:18,19, 1co 1:5-7, 1co 9:2, 1co 14:1813 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
[x]MKJV: For what is it in which you were inferior to the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong.
BBE: For what is there in which you were made less than the other churches, but in the one thing that I was not a trouble to you? Let me have forgiveness for this wrong.
KAV: 내 자신이 너희에게 짐이 되지 아니한 것을 빼고 너희가 다른 교회들보다 못한 것이 도대체 무엇이냐? 너희는 나의 이 잘못을 용서하라.
TSK: I myself: 2co 12:14, 2co 11:8,9, 1co 9:6,12,15-18; forgive: 2co 11:714 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
[x]MKJV: Behold, a third [time] I am ready to come to you. And I will not burden you, for I do not seek your things, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasure for the parents, but the parents for the children.
BBE: This is now the third time that I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a trouble to you: my desire is for you, not for your property: for it is not the children's business to make store for their fathers, but the fathers for the children.
KAV: 보라, 내가 이제 세 번째 너희에게 갈 준비가 되어 있으나 너희에게 짐이 되지는 아니하리라. 나는 너희 재물을 구하지 아니하고 너희를 구하노니 자녀들이 부모를 위해 모아 두지 아니하고 부모가 자녀들을 위해 하느니라.
TSK: the third: 2co 1:15, 2co 13:1, 1co 4:19, 1co 11:34, 1co 16:5; for I: pr 11:30, ac 20:33, 1co 10:33, php 4:1,17, 1th 2:5,6,8,19,20, 1pe 5:2-4; for the: ge 24:35,36, ge 31:14,15, pr 13:22, pr 19:14, 1co 4:14,15, 1th 2:1115 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you ㆍ; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
[x]MKJV: And I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls, even if loving you more and more, I am loved [the] less.
BBE: And I will gladly give all I have for your souls. If I have the more love for you, am I to be loved the less?
KAV: 너희를 더욱 넘치게 사랑할수록 내가 덜 사랑받는다 할지라도 나는 너희를 위하여 가진 것을 매우 기쁘게 쓰고 나 자신을 쓰리라.
TSK: will: 2co 12:9, 2co 1:6,14, 2co 2:3, 2co 7:3, joh 10:10,11, ga 4:10, php 2:17, col 1:24, 1th 2:8, 2ti 2:10; you: 2co 12:14, heb 13:17; though: 2co 6:12,13, 2sa 13:39, 2sa 17:1-4, 2sa 18:33, 1co 4:8-1816 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
[x]MKJV: But let it be so, I did not burden you. But being crafty, I caught you with bait.
BBE: But let it be so, that I was not a trouble to you myself; but (someone may say) being false, I took you with deceit.
KAV: 그러나 그렇다 하여도 나는 너희에게 짐을 지우지 아니하였노라. 그럼에도 불구하고 어떤 자들이 내가 간교하게 행하여 너희를 속임수로 사로잡았다 하니
TSK: I did not: 2co 12:13, 2co 11:9,10; being: 2co 1:12, 2co 4:2, 2co 7:2, 2co 10:2,3, 1th 2:3,5, 1pe 2:317 Did I make a gain ㆍ of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?
[x]MKJV: By any whom I have sent to you, did I overreach you by him?
BBE: Did I make a profit out of you by any of those whom I sent to you?
KAV: 내가 너희에게 보낸 자들 가운데 누구를 시켜 너희에게서 이득을 취하더냐?
TSK: Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?: 2co 12:18, 2ki 5:16,20-27, 1co 4:17, 1co 16:1018 I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did ㆍ Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?
[x]MKJV: I begged Titus and sent with [him] the brother. Did Titus overreach you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we] not walk] in the same steps?
BBE: I gave orders to Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus make any profit out of you? were we not guided by the same Spirit, in the same ways?
KAV: 내가 디도에게 청하였고 그와 더불어 한 형제를 보내었는데 디도가 너희에게서 이득을 취하더냐? 우리가 같은 영 안에서 걷지 아니하더냐? 우리가 같은 보조로 걷지 아니하더냐?
TSK: Titus: 2co 2:12,13, 2co 7:2,6; with: 2co 8:6,18; walked we not in the same spirit: 2co 8:6,16-23, php 2:19-22; in the same steps: nu 16:15, 1sa 12:3,4, ne 5:14, ac 20:33-35, ro 4:12, 1pe 2:2119 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
[x]MKJV: Again, do you think we are defending ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ, but [we do] all things, dearly beloved, for your building up.
BBE: It may seem to you that all this time we have been attempting to put ourselves in the right; but we are saying these things before God in Christ. For all things, dear brothers, are for your profit.
KAV: 너희는 우리가 너희에게 우리 자신을 변명하는 줄로 또 생각하느냐? 우리가 그리스도 안에서 [하나님] 앞에서 말하거니와, 극진히 사랑하는 자들아, 오직 우리는 너희를 세우기 위하여 모든 것을 행하느니라.
TSK: think: 2co 3:1, 2co 5:12; we speak: 2co 11:10,31, ro 9:1; but: 2co 5:13, 2co 10:8, 2co 13:10, 1co 9:12-23, 1co 10:33, 1co 14:26; dearly: 2co 12:15, 2co 7:1, ro 12:19, 1co 10:14, php 4:120 For I fear, lest ㆍ, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
[x]MKJV: For I fear, lest somehow coming I might not find you as I wish, and [that] I shall be found by you such as you might not wish; lest somehow [there be] strifes, envyings, angers, contentions, backbitings, whisperings, proud thoughts, tumults;
BBE: For I have a fear that, when I come, you may not be answering to my desire, and that I may not be answering to yours; that there may be fighting, hate, angry feeling, divisions, evil talk about others, secrets, thoughts of pride, outbursts against authority;
KAV: 내가 갈 때에 내가 원하던 모습으로 너희를 보지 못하고 또 너희가 원치 않는 모습으로 내가 너희에게 보일까 염려하며 또 논쟁과 시기와 분노와 다툼과 헐뜯음과 수군거림과 거만함과 소동이 있을까 염려하고
TSK: I shall not: 2co 12:21, 2co 13:9; and that: 2co 1:23,24, 2co 2:1-3, 2co 10:2,6,8,9, 2co 13:2,10, 1co 4:18-21, 1co 5:3-5; debates: 1co 1:11, 1co 3:3,4, 1co 4:6-8,18, 1co 6:7,8, 1co 11:16-19, 1co 14:36,37, ga 5:15,19-21, ga 5:26, eph 4:31,32, jas 3:14-16, jas 4:1-5, 1pe 2:1; whisperings: ps 41:7, pr 16:28, ro 1:29; swellings: 2pe 2:18, jude 1:1621 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
[x]MKJV: lest in my coming again my God will humble me with you; and I shall mourn many who have already sinned, and not repenting over the uncleanness, and fornication, and lustfulness which they have practiced.
BBE: And that when I come again, my God may put me to shame among you, and I may have grief for those who have done wrong before and have had no regret for their unclean ways, and for the evil desires of the flesh to which they have given way.
KAV: 또 내가 다시 갈 때에 내 [하나님]께서 나를 너희 가운데서 낮추실까 염려하며 또 죄를 짓고도 자기가 범한 부정한 일과 음행과 색욕을 회개하지 아니한 많은 자들로 인하여 내가 슬퍼할까 염려하노라.
TSK: my God: 2co 12:7, 2co 8:24, 2co 9:3,4; that I: 2co 2:1-4, ex 32:31, de 9:15,25, 1sa 15:35, ezr 9:3, ezr 10:1, ps 119:136, jer 9:1, jer 13:17, lu 9:41,42, ro 9:2, php 3:18,19; sinned: 2co 13:2; and have not: 2co 2:5-11, 2co 7:9-11, 2co 10:6, 1co 6:9-11, re 22:20; uncleanness: ro 13:13, 1co 5:1,9-11, 1co 6:15-18, ga 5:19, eph 5:5,6, col 3:5, 1th 4:3-7, heb 13:4, 1pe 4:2,3, 2pe 2:10-14,18, jude 1:7,23, re 21:8, re 22:15