2 Corinthians 12:2

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2 Corinthians 12:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to gain, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.

2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of it I do not know, but God knows.

3 And I know that this man—whether in the body or out of it I do not know, but God knows—

4 was caught up to Paradise. The things he heard were too sacred for words, things that man is not permitted to tell.

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2 Corinthians 12:5

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2 Corinthians 5:17

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2 Corinthians 5:21

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Isaiah 45:24

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Isaiah 45:25

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John 15:4

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John 15:5

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John 15:6

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John 17:22

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John 17:23

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Romans 8:1

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

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1 Corinthians 1:30

It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.

Galatians 1:22

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Galatians 5:6

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2 Corinthians 5:6

Therefore we are always confident, although we know that while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:7

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2 Corinthians 5:8

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2 Kings 2:16

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Ezekiel 8:1

In the sixth year, on the fifth day of the sixth month, I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me; and there the hand of the Lord GOD fell upon me.

Ezekiel 8:2

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Ezekiel 8:3

He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes jealousy was seated.

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Philippians 1:23

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Revelation 1:10

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Revelation 4:2

At once I was in the Spirit, and I saw a throne standing in heaven, with someone seated on it.

2 Corinthians 11:11

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2 Corinthians 12:4

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Genesis 1:17

God set these lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth,

Genesis 1:18

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