2 Corinthians 12:2
Good News Translation
I know a certain Christian man who fourteen years ago was snatched up to the highest heaven (I do not know whether this actually happened or whether he had a vision--only God knows).

New Revised Standard Version
I know a person in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know; God knows.

Contemporary English Version
I know about one of Christ's followers who was taken up into the third heaven 14 years ago. I don't know if the man was still in his body when it happened, but God certainly knows.

New American Bible
I know someone in Christ who, fourteen years ago (whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows), was caught up to the third heaven.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

knew.

2 Corinthians 12:3,5 And I know such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I know not: God knoweth): . . .

in Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:17,21 If then any be in Christ a new creature, the old things are passed away. Behold all things are made new. . . .

2 Corinthians 13:5 Try your own selves if you be in the faith: prove ye yourselves. Know you not your own selves, that Christ Jesus is in you, unless perhaps you be reprobates?

Isaiah 45:24,25 For every knee shall be bowed to me, and every tongue shall swear. . . .

John 6:56 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me: and I in him.

John 15:4-6 Abide in me: and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me. . . .

John 17:21-23 That they all may be one, as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. . . .

Romans 8:1 There is now therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh.

Romans 16:7 Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and fellow prisoners: who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

1 Corinthians 1:30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and justice and sanctification and redemption:

Galatians 1:22 And I was unknown by face to the churches of Judea, which were in Christ:

Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision: but faith that worketh by Charity.

about.

46, at Lystra,'

Acts 14:6 They, understanding it, fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the whole country round about: and were there preaching the gospel.

Acts 22:17 And it came to pass, when I was come again to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, that I was in a trance,

in the.

2 Corinthians 5:6-8 Therefore having always confidence, knowing that while we are in the body we are absent from the Lord. . . .

1 Kings 18:12 And when I am gone from thee, the Spirit of the Lord will carry thee into a place that I know not: and I shall go in and tell Achab; and he, not finding thee, will kill me: but thy servant feareth the Lord from his infancy.

2 Kings 2:16 And they said to him: Behold, there are with thy servants, fifty strong men, that can go, and seek thy master, lest, perhaps, the spirit of the Lord, hath taken him up and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said: Do not send.

Ezekiel 8:1-3 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the ancients of Juda sat before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me. . . .

Ezekiel 11:24 And the spirit lifted me up, and brought me into Chaldea, to them of the captivity, in vision, by the spirit of God: and the vision which I had seen was taken up from me.

Acts 8:39,40 And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord took away Philip: and the eunuch saw him no more. And he went on his way rejoicing. . . .

Acts 22:17 And it came to pass, when I was come again to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, that I was in a trance,

Philippians 1:22,23 And if to live in the flesh: this is to me the fruit of labour. And what I shall choose I know not. . . .

Revelation 1:10 I was in the spirit on the Lord's day and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,

Revelation 4:2 And immediately I was in the spirit. And behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and upon the throne one sitting.

God.

2 Corinthians 12:3 And I know such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I know not: God knoweth):

See on

2 Corinthians 11:11 Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth it.

caught.

2 Corinthians 12:4 That he was caught up into paradise and heard secret words which it is not granted to man to utter.

Luke 24:51 And it came to pass, whilst he blessed them, he departed from them and was carried up to heaven.

1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be taken up together with them in the clouds to meet Christ, into the air: and so shall we be always with the Lord.

Hebrews 9:24 For Jesus is not entered into the Holies made with hands, the patterns of the true: but into Heaven itself, that he may appear now in the presence of God for us.

Revelation 12:5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with an iron rod. And her son was taken up to God and to his throne.

third.

Genesis 1:14-20 And God said: Let there be lights made in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years: . . .

1 Kings 8:27 Is it then to be thought that God should indeed dwell upon earth? for if heaven, and the heavens of heavens, cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built?

Isaiah 57:15 For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth eternity: and his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy place, and with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Context
Paul's Revelation
1If I must glory (it is not expedient indeed) but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2I 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. 3And I know such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I know not: God knoweth):…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 10:14
Behold heaven is the Lord's thy God, and the heaven of heaven, the earth and all things that are therein.

Psalm 148:4
Praise him, ye heavens of heavens: and let all the waters that are above the heavens

Ezekiel 8:3
And the likeness of a hand was put forth and took me by a lock of my head: and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the vision of God into Jerusalem, near the inner gate, that looked toward the north, where was set the idol of jealousy to provoke to jealousy.

Ezekiel 11:24
And the spirit lifted me up, and brought me into Chaldea, to them of the captivity, in vision, by the spirit of God: and the vision which I had seen was taken up from me.

Ezekiel 43:5
And the spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court: and behold the house was filled with the glory of the Lord.

Acts 8:39
And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord took away Philip: and the eunuch saw him no more. And he went on his way rejoicing.

Romans 16:3
Salute Prisca and Aquila, my helpers, in Christ Jesus

Romans 16:7
Salute Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and fellow prisoners: who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

Romans 16:9
Salute Urbanus, our helper in Christ Jesus and Stachys, my beloved.

Romans 16:10
Salute Apellas, approved in Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:11
Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth it.

2 Corinthians 12:4
That he was caught up into paradise and heard secret words which it is not granted to man to utter.

Ephesians 4:10
He that descended is the same also that ascended above all the heavens: that he might fill all things.

1 Thessalonians 4:17
Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be taken up together with them in the clouds to meet Christ, into the air: and so shall we be always with the Lord.

Hebrews 4:14
Having therefore a great high priest that hath passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God: let us hold fast our confession.

Revelation 12:5
And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with an iron rod. And her son was taken up to God and to his throne.

2 Corinthians 12:1
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