Chiasm

2 Corinthians 11:30–12:6

2 Corinthians 11:30–12:64 matched frames1 pivot

Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.

A 30-33 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
- B 1a It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory.
  - C 1b I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
    - D 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;)
      - E 2b such an one caught up to the third heaven.
    - D' 3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
  - C' 4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
- B' 5a Of such an one will I glory:
A' 5b-6 yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities. 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.