2 Corinthians 12:1 Cross References - LITV

¹ Indeed, to boast is not profitable to me, for I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

⁶ And He said, Now hear My words, If your prophet is of Jehovah, I shall make Myself known to him in an appearance; I will speak to him in a dream.

¹ And it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. ² On the fifth of the month, the fifth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin the king, ³ the word of Jehovah surely became known to Ezekiel, the son of Buzi, the priest, in the land of the Chaldeans, by the river Chebar. And there the hand of Jehovah was on him. ⁴ And I looked, and behold, a windstorm came out of the north, a great cloud. and a fire flashing itself, and a brightness to it all around. And out of its midst, like the color of polished bronze it came, out of the midst of the fire. ⁵ Also from its midst came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was how they looked: they had the likeness of a man, ⁶ and four faces were to each, and four wings to each of them, ⁷ and their feet were straight feet, and the sole of their feet like the sole of a calf's foot. And they sparkled like the color of burnished copper. ⁸ And the hands of a man extended from under their wings on their four sides. And their faces and their wings were to the four of them, ⁹ joining each one to the other by their wings. They did not turn in their going, each one went toward the front of their face. ¹⁰ And the likeness of their faces: the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side to the four of them; and the face of an ox on the left to the four of them, and the face of an eagle to the four of them. ¹¹ So their faces were . And their wings were spread upward, to each, the two wings were joined, and two wings of each covering their bodies. ¹² And each went toward the front of their faces. To where the spirit was to go, there they went; they did not turn in their going. ¹³ And the likeness of the living creatures: they appeared like coals of burning fire, like the appearance of torches; it was continually circling among the living creatures. And the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning. ¹⁴ And the living creatures kept running and returning, like the appearance of a flash of lightning. ¹⁵ And I looked at the living creatures, and, behold, one wheel was on the earth beside the living creatures, with the four of its faces. ¹⁶ The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship was like the color of beryl; and the one likeness was to the four of them. And their appearance and their workmanship was like the wheel in the middle of the wheel. ¹⁷ They went on the four of their sides in their going, they did not turn in their going. ¹⁸ And also their rims were high to them, even awesome to them. And their rims were full of eyes all around the four of them. ¹⁹ And in the going of the living creatures the wheels went beside them. And in the lifting up of the living creatures from on the earth, the wheels were lifted up. ²⁰ There where the spirit was to go, there they went; there their spirit was to go, and the wheels were lifted up along with them. For the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. ²¹ In their going, these went; and in their standing still, these stood still. And in their being lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up along with them. For the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. ²² And a likeness was over the heads of the living creature, an expanse like the color of awesome crystal, stretched out over their heads from above. ²³ And under the expanse their wings were straight, the one toward the other, to each, two wings covering on this side, and to each two covering on that side of their bodies. ²⁴ And I heard the sound of their wings like the sound of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty. In their going was the sound of tumult, like the sound of an army. In their standing still, they let down their wings. ²⁵ And there was a voice from the expanse that was over their heads. In their standing still, they let down their wings. ²⁶ And from above the expanse that was over their heads was an appearance like a sapphire stone, the likeness of a throne. And on the likeness of the throne was a likeness in appearance like a man on it from above. ²⁷ And I saw Him, like the color of polished bronze, looking like fire within it all around. From the appearance of His loins and upward, and from the appearance of His loins and downward, I saw Him looking like fire; and brightness to it all around. ²⁸ As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of the rain, so appeared the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Jehovah. And I saw, and I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of One speaking.

²⁴ And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into Chaldea, to the exiles, in a vision by the Spirit of God. And the vision that I had seen went up from me.

⁵ then I lifted up my eyes and looked: And behold! A certain man was clothed in linen, whose loins were wrapped in fine gold from Uphaz. ⁶ His body was also like the beryl, and his face looked like lightning. And his eyes were like torches of fire; and his arms and his feet in color like polished bronze; and the sound of his words were as the noise of a multitude. ⁷ And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision. For the men who were with me did not see the vision. But a great trembling fell on them so that they fled to hide themselves. ⁸ Then I was left alone, and I saw his great vision, and there remained no strength in me. For my glory was turned within me into corruption, and I kept no strength. ⁹ Yet I heard the sound of his words. And when I heard the sound of his words, then I was on my face, stunned, and my face was toward the ground. ¹⁰ And, behold, a hand touched me and set me shaking on my knees and the palms of my hands.

²⁸ And it shall be afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. ²⁹ And also I will pour out My Spirit on the slaves and on the slave girls in those days.

⁷ But I tell you the truth, it is advantageous for you that I should go; for if I do not go away, the Comforter will not come to you. But if I go, I will send Him to you.

¹⁴ And Caiaphas was the one who had given counsel to the Jews that it was advantageous for one man to perish for the people.

¹⁰ And there was a certain disciple in Damascus named Ananias. And the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias! And he said, Behold, Lord, I am here . ¹¹ And the Lord said to him, Rising up pass along on the street being called Straight and seek a Tarsian, Saul by name, in the house of Judas. For, behold, he is praying. ¹² And he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in and putting a hand on him, so that he may see again. ¹³ And Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how many bad things he did to Your saints in Jerusalem. ¹⁴ And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all the ones calling on Your name. ¹⁵ And the Lord said to him, Go, for this one is a chosen vessel to Me, to bear My name before nations and kings and the sons of Israel. ¹⁶ For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of My name. ¹⁷ And Ananias went away and entered into the house. And putting hands on him he said, Brother Saul, the Lord has sent me, Jesus, the One who appeared to you in the highway on which you came, that you may see and be filled of the Holy Spirit.

⁹ And the Lord said to Paul through a vision in the night, Do not fear, but speak, and do not keep silence;

¹⁷ And it happened to me, returning to Jerusalem and praying in the temple: I became in an ecstasy, ¹⁸ and I saw Him saying to me, Hurry and go out quickly from Jerusalem, because they will not receive your testimony concerning Me. ¹⁹ And I said, Lord, they understand that I was imprisoning and beating the ones believing on You throughout the synagogues. ²⁰ And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was poured out, I myself also was standing by and consenting to his execution, and holding the garments of those killing him. ²¹ And He said to me, Go, for I will send you to the nations afar off.

¹¹ And coming to him in the following night the Lord said, Be cheered, Paul, for as you fully testified the things concerning Me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify at Rome.

¹³ at midday along the highway, O king, I and those with me saw a light from heaven shining around me above the brightness of the sun. ¹⁴ And all of us falling to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me, and saying in the Hebrew dialect, Saul, Saul why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the prods. ¹⁵ And I said, Who are you, Sir? And He said, I am Jesus whom you persecute; ¹⁶ but rise up and stand on your feet, for it is for this reason I appeared to you, to appoint you a servant and a witness both of what you saw, and in what I shall appear to you, ¹⁷ having delivered you from the people and the nations, to whom I now send you, ¹⁸ to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, in order that they may receive remission of sins, and an inheritance among those being sanctified by faith in Me. ¹⁹ Upon this, king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

¹² All things are lawful to me, but not all things profit. All things are lawful to me, but I will not be ruled by any.

²³ All things are lawful to me, but not all things profit. All things are lawful to me, but not all things build up.

¹⁰ And I give judgment in this, for this is profitable for you, who began before not only to do, but also to be willing from last year.

¹⁶ Again I say, let not anyone think me to be foolish. But if not, even if as foolish, receive me, that I also may boast a little. ¹⁷ What I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this boldness of boasting. ¹⁸ Since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast. ¹⁹ For you gladly endure fools, being wise. ²⁰ For you endure if anyone enslaves you, if anyone devours, if anyone takes away from you, if anyone exalts self, if anyone beats you in the face. ²¹ I speak according to dishonor, as if we have been weak. But in whatever anyone dares (I say it in foolishness), I also dare. ²² Are they Hebrews? I also. Are they Israelites? I also. Are they Abraham's seed? I also. ²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself.) I being beyond them : in labors, more abundantly; in stripes, beyond measure; in prisons, much more; in deaths, many times. ²⁴ Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews. ²⁵ I was flogged three times; I was stoned once; I was shipwrecked three times; I have spent a night and a day in the deep. ²⁶ I have been in travels often, in dangers of rivers, in dangers of robbers, in dangers from my race, in dangers from the nations, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the desert, in dangers on the sea, in dangers among false brothers, ²⁷ in hardship and toil, often in watchings, in hunger and thirst, often in fastings, in cold and nakedness, ²⁸ besides the things outside conspiring against me day by day, the care of all the churches. ²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I do not burn? ³⁰ If it is right to boast, I will boast of the things of my infirmity.

⁷ And by surpassing revelations, that I not be made haughty, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan, that he might buffet me, that I not be made haughty.

¹¹ Boasting, I have become foolish. You compelled me. For I ought to be commended by you, for I lacked nothing of the highest apostles, even though I am nothing.

¹² For I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

² And I went up according to revelation. And I put before them the gospel which I proclaim in the nations, but privately to the ones seeming to be pillars, lest I run, or I ran, into vanity.

³ that by revelation He made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in brief,

²⁰ And we know that the Son of God has come, and He has given to us an understanding that we may know the true One, and we are in the true One, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and the life everlasting.