---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: 2 Corinthians from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 12
verse_count: 21
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), 2 Corinthians, chap. 12, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# 2 Corinthians 12

*Of one caught up into Paradise The signs of an apostle.*

**1** It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. no
**2** such a 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 a 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 of me, 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 beloved.
**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 bj any of them whom I sent unto you?
**18** I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make again 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.