2 Corinthians 12:2

Paul speaks of a man in Christ caught up to the third heaven fourteen years earlier. It matters because, though the experience was real, he relates it with striking detachment rather than pride.

Cross-references · 34

• Acts 22:17Later, when I had returned to Jerusalem and was praying at the temple, I fell into a trance
• 1 Th 4:17After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.
• Ezek 8:1–3In 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.
• Rev 4:2At once I was in the Spirit, and I saw a throne standing in heaven, with someone seated on it.
• 2 Cor 11:11Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!
• Isa 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
• 1 Kgs 18:12I do not know where the Spirit of the LORD may carry you off when I leave you. Then when I go and tell Ahab and he does not find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared the LORD from my youth.
• Isa 45:24–25Surely they will say of Me, ‘In the LORD alone are righteousness and strength.’” All who rage against Him will come to Him and be put to shame.
• John 6:56Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.
• 2 Cor 5:6–8Therefore we are always confident, although we know that while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord.
• Luke 24:51While He was blessing them, He left them and was carried up into heaven.
• Rom 16:7Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow countrymen and fellow prisoners. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.
• Phil 1:22–23But if I go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. So what shall I choose? I do not know.
• Gen 1:14–20And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.
• 2 Cor 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
• Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
• Eph 4:10He who descended is the very One who ascended above all the heavens, in order to fill all things.
• Rom 8:1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
• 1 Kgs 8:27But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
• 2 Cor 12:3–5And I know that this man—whether in the body or out of it I do not know, but God knows—
• Ezek 11:24And the Spirit lifted me up and carried me back to Chaldea, to the exiles in the vision given by the Spirit of God. After the vision had gone up from me,
• Acts 8:39–40When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, but went on his way rejoicing.
• Acts 14:6they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding region,
• Heb 9:24For Christ did not enter a man-made copy of the true sanctuary, but He entered heaven itself, now to appear on our behalf in the presence of God.
• John 15:4–6Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me.
• Gal 1:22I was personally unknown, however, to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.
• 2 Cor 13:5Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Can’t you see for yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you actually fail the test?
• 2 Cor 5:21God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
• Rev 12:5And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was caught up to God and to His throne.
• 2 Kgs 2:16“Look now,” they said to Elisha, “we your servants have fifty valiant men. Please let them go and search for your master. Perhaps the Spirit of the LORD has taken him up and put him on one of the mountains or in one of the valleys.” “Do not send them,” Elisha replied.
• 1 Cor 1:30It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
• Ps 148:4Praise Him, O highest heavens, and you waters above the skies.
• John 17:21–23that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
• Rev 1:10On the Lord’s day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,

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