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고린도후서 12
Korean Living Bible
고린도후서 12
Korean Living Bible
하나님의 능력은 약한 데서
12 자랑해서 이로울 것은 없으나 주님께서 보여 주신 환상과 계시에 대해서 는 내가 자랑하지 않을 수 없습니다.
2-3 나는 14년 전에 셋째 하늘에 이끌려 갔 습니다. 그때 실제로 내 몸이 올라간 것인지 아니면 내 영이 몸을 떠나 올라간 것인지 나는 모르지만 하나님은 아십니다.
4 나는 낙원으로 이끌려 가서 도저히 표현할 수도 없고 또 누구에게도 알려서는 안 되는 말을 들었습니다.
5 이런 경험이야말로 큰 자랑거리가 되겠지만 나는 나의 약한 것만을 자랑하기로 했습니다.
6 내가 만일 자랑한다고 해도 나는 사실을 말할 것이므로 어리석은 사람이 되지 않을 것입니다. 그러나 사람들이 나에 대하여 보고 들은 것 이상으로 나를 평가할 것 같아서 자랑은 그만두겠습니다.
7 그리고 내가 받은 계시가 너무나 크고 놀라운 것이기 때문에 하나님은 내가 너무 교만해질까 봐 내 몸에 가시 같은 병을 주셨습니다. 이것은 내가 교만하지 않도록 나를 괴롭히는 사탄의 사자입니다.
8 나는 이 고통이 내게서 떠나게 해 달라고 세 번이나 주님께 기도하였습니다.
9 그러나 주님께서는 “내 은혜가 너에게 충분하다. 내 능력은 약한 데서 완전해진다” 라고 말씀하셨습니다. 그러므로 나는 나의 약한 것을 더욱 기쁜 마음으로 자랑하여 그리스도의 능력이 나에게 머물러 있도록 하겠습니다.
10 그래서 나는 그리스도를 위해서 약해지고 모욕을 당하고 가난하며 핍박과 괴로움받는 것을 기뻐하고 있습니다. 이것은 내가 약할 그 때에 강해지기 때문입니다.
11 내가 자랑함으로 어리석은 사람이 되었으나 이것은 여러분이 그렇게 하도록 만든 것입니다. 나는 당연히 여러분에게 칭찬을 받았어야 했습니다. 내가 비록 보잘것없는 사람이라 하더라도 저 위대하다는 사도들보다 조금도 못하지 않습니다.
12 내가 여러분 가운데서 모든 것을 참고 놀라운 일과 여러 가지 기적을 행한 것이 바로 내가 참 사도라는 것을 보여 주는 표인 것입니다.
13 내가 여러분에게 폐를 끼치지 않은 것을 제외하고 다른 교회에 비해 불공평하게 대한 것이 무엇입니까? 내가 여러분에게 부담을 주지 않은 이것이 잘못이라면 나를 용서해 주십시오.
바울의 세 번째 방문
14 나는 이제 세 번째 여러분에게 갈 준비를 하고 있습니다. 그러나 내가 가도 여러분에게 짐이 되지는 않을 것입니다. 내가 원하는 것은 여러분의 재물이 아니라 바로 여러분 자신이기 때문입니다. 자녀가 부모를 위해 저축하는 것이 아니라 부모가 자녀를 위해 저축해야 합니다.
15 여러분의 영혼을 위해서라면 내가 가진 것뿐만 아니라 내 몸까지도 기꺼이 바치겠습니다. 내가 여러분을 이토록 사랑하고 있는데 여러분도 나를 그만큼 사랑해 주어야 하지 않겠습니까?
16 어쨌든 내가 여러분에게 짐을 지운 일이 없어도 간교하게 속임수로 여러분을 착취했다고 말하는 사람이 있습니다.
17 내가 누구를 보내서 여러분을 착취했습니까?
18 내가 디도를 권해서 다른 형제와 함께 여러분에게 보낸 일이 있는데 디도가 여러분을 착취했습니까? 그는 나와 같은 마음을 가지고 같은 길을 걸어온 사람입니다.
19 여러분은 아직도 우리가 변명을 하고 있는 줄로 생각하십니까? 우리는 그리스도의 사람으로서 하나님 앞에서 말하고 있습니다. 사랑하는 여러분, 우리가 행하는 이 모든 것은 여러분을 [a]돕기 위한 것입니다.
20 내가 여러분에게 갈 때 서로 기대에 어긋나는 일이 생길까 염려됩니다. 다시 말하면 여러분 가운데 다툼과 시기와 분노와 당파 싸움과 비난과 험담과 교만과 소란이 있어서는 안 되겠다는 말입니다.
21 내가 여러분에게 다시 갈 때 하나님이 여러분 앞에서 나를 낮추실까 두렵습니다. 그리고 전에 죄를 지은 여러 사람들이 그들의 더러움과 음란과 방탕을 아직도 회개하지 않고 있다면 내가 그들 때문에 슬퍼하지 않을까 염려됩니다.
Footnotes
- 12:19 또는 ‘덕을 세우기 위함이니라’
2 Corinthians 12
New International Version
2 Corinthians 12
New International Version
Paul’s Vision and His Thorn
12 I must go on boasting.(A) Although there is nothing to be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations(B) from the Lord. 2 I know a man in Christ(C) who fourteen years ago was caught up(D) to the third heaven.(E) Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows.(F) 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(G) to paradise(H) and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell. 5 I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses.(I) 6 Even if I should choose to boast,(J) I would not be a fool,(K) 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 or because of these surpassingly great revelations.(L) Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh,(M) a messenger of Satan,(N) to torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.(O) 9 But he said to me, “My grace(P) is sufficient for you, for my power(Q) is made perfect in weakness.(R)”(S) Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight(T) in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships,(U) in persecutions,(V) in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.(W)
Paul’s Concern for the Corinthians
11 I have made a fool of myself,(X) but you drove me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, for I am not in the least inferior to the “super-apostles,”[a](Y) even though I am nothing.(Z) 12 I persevered in demonstrating among you the marks of a true apostle, including signs, wonders and miracles.(AA) 13 How were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was never a burden to you?(AB) Forgive me this wrong!(AC)
14 Now I am ready to visit you for the third time,(AD) and I will not be a burden to you, because what I want is not your possessions but you. After all, children should not have to save up for their parents,(AE) but parents for their children.(AF) 15 So I will very gladly spend for you everything I have and expend myself as well.(AG) If I love you more,(AH) will you love me less? 16 Be that as it may, I have not been a burden to you.(AI) Yet, crafty fellow that I am, I caught you by trickery! 17 Did I exploit you through any of the men I sent to you? 18 I urged(AJ) Titus(AK) to go to you and I sent our brother(AL) with him. Titus did not exploit you, did he? Did we not walk in the same footsteps by the same Spirit?
19 Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? We have been speaking in the sight of God(AM) as those in Christ; and everything we do, dear friends,(AN) is for your strengthening.(AO) 20 For I am afraid that when I come(AP) I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be.(AQ) I fear that there may be discord,(AR) jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition,(AS) slander,(AT) gossip,(AU) arrogance(AV) and disorder.(AW) 21 I am afraid that when I come again my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved(AX) over many who have sinned earlier(AY) and have not repented of the impurity, sexual sin and debauchery(AZ) in which they have indulged.
Footnotes
- 2 Corinthians 12:11 Or the most eminent apostles
2 Corinthians 12
King James Version
2 Corinthians 12
King James Version
12 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (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.
3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
5 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.
6 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 me.
7 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.
8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
9 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.
10 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.
11 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, though I be nothing.
12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.
13 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.
14 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.
15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?
18 I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?
19 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.
20 For I fear, lest, 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:
21 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.
2 Corinthians 12
New King James Version
2 Corinthians 12
New King James Version
The Vision of Paradise
12 It is [a]doubtless not profitable for me to boast. I will come to (A)visions and (B)revelations of the Lord: 2 I know a man (C)in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not know, God knows—such a one (D)was caught up to the third heaven. 3 And I know such a man—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows— 4 how he was caught up into (E)Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. 5 Of such a one I will boast; yet of myself I will not (F)boast, except in my infirmities. 6 For though I might desire to boast, I will not be a fool; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, lest anyone should think of me above what he sees me to be or hears from me.
The Thorn in the Flesh
7 And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a (G)thorn in the flesh was given to me, (H)a messenger of Satan to [b]buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure. 8 (I)Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. 9 And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly (J)I will rather boast in my infirmities, (K)that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore (L)I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. (M)For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Signs of an Apostle
11 I have become (N)a fool [c]in boasting; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you; for (O)in nothing was I behind the most eminent apostles, though (P)I am nothing. 12 (Q)Truly the signs of an apostle were accomplished among you with all perseverance, in signs and (R)wonders and mighty (S)deeds. 13 For what is it in which you were inferior to other churches, except that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong!
Love for the Church
14 (T)Now for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be burdensome to you; for (U)I do not seek yours, but you. (V)For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. 15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent (W)for your souls; though (X)the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.
16 But be that as it may, (Y)I did not burden you. Nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you by cunning! 17 Did I take advantage of you by any of those whom I sent to you? 18 I urged Titus, and sent our (Z)brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same steps?
19 (AA)Again, [d]do you think that we excuse ourselves to you? (AB)We speak before God in Christ. (AC)But we do all things, beloved, for your edification. 20 For I fear lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that (AD)I shall be found by you such as you do not wish; lest there be contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, backbitings, whisperings, conceits, tumults; 21 lest, when I come again, my God (AE)will humble me among you, and I shall mourn for many (AF)who have sinned before and have not repented of the uncleanness, (AG)fornication, and lewdness which they have practiced.
Footnotes
- 2 Corinthians 12:1 NU necessary, though not profitable, to boast
- 2 Corinthians 12:7 beat
- 2 Corinthians 12:11 NU omits in boasting
- 2 Corinthians 12:19 NU You have been thinking for a long time that we
2 Corinthians 12
English Standard Version
2 Corinthians 12
English Standard Version
Paul's Visions and His Thorn
12 I must go on boasting. Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and (A)revelations of the Lord. 2 I know a man (B)in Christ who fourteen years ago was (C)caught up to (D)the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, (E)God knows. 3 And I know that this man was caught up into (F)paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, (G)God knows— 4 and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter. 5 On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, (H)except of my weaknesses— 6 though if I should wish to boast, (I)I would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth; but I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me. 7 So (J)to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations,[a] (K)a thorn was given me in the flesh, (L)a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. 8 (M)Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. 9 But he said to me, (N)“My grace is sufficient for you, for (O)my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that (P)the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 (Q)For the sake of Christ, then, (R)I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For (S)when I am weak, then I am strong.
Concern for the Corinthian Church
11 (T)I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was (U)not at all inferior to these super-apostles, (V)even though I am nothing. 12 (W)The signs of a true apostle were performed among you (X)with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works. 13 For in what were you less favored than the rest of the churches, except that (Y)I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong!
14 Here (Z)for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for (AA)I seek not what is yours but you. For (AB)children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but (AC)parents for their children. 15 (AD)I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If (AE)I love you more, am I to be loved less? 16 But granting that (AF)I myself did not burden you, I was crafty, you say, and got the better of you by deceit. 17 Did I take advantage of you (AG)through any of those whom I sent to you? 18 (AH)I urged Titus to go, and sent (AI)the brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not act in the same spirit? Did we not take the same steps?
19 Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? It is (AJ)in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ, and (AK)all for your upbuilding, beloved. 20 For I fear that perhaps (AL)when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder. 21 I fear that when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those (AM)who sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, (AN)sexual immorality, and sensuality that they have practiced.
Footnotes
- 2 Corinthians 12:7 Or hears from me, even because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited
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