1. If I must glory (it is not expedient indeed): but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2. 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.
3. And I know such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I know not: God knoweth):
4. That he was caught up into paradise, and heard secret words, which it is not granted to man to utter.
5. For such an one I will glory; but for myself I will glory nothing, but in my infirmities.
6. For 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.
7. And lest the greatness of the revelations should exalt me, there was given me a sting of my flesh, an angel of Satan, to buffet me.
8. For which thing thrice I besought the Lord, that it might depart from me.