2 Corinthians 12:2

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

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.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: 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.
KJV: 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;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
WEB: I know a man in Christ who was caught up into the third heaven fourteen years ago—whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows.
ASV: I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not; or whether out of the body, I know not; God knoweth), such a one caught up even to the third heaven.
DARBY: I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago, (whether in [the] body I know not, or out of the body I know not, God knows;) such [a one] caught up to [the] third heaven.
BLB: I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago—whether in the body, I do not know, or out of the body, I do not know; God knows—such a man, having been caught up to the third heaven.

ÅB: Jeg kjenner et menneske i Kristus - om han var i legemet, vet jeg ikke, eller utenfor legemet, vet jeg ikke; Gud vet det - en som for fjorten år siden ble rykket like inn i den tredje himmel.
OTB: Jeg kjenner en mann i Kristus som for fjorten år siden—om det var i legemet eller utenfor legemet, vet jeg ikke, bare Gud vet—ble rykket opp til den tredje himmel.
B1930: Jeg kjenner et menneske i Kristus - om han var i legemet, vet jeg ikke, eller utenfor legemet, vet jeg ikke; Gud vet det - en som for fjorten år siden blev rykket like inn i den tredje himmel.

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Original text and word study

Cross references

Acts 22:17
Later, when I had returned to Jerusalem and was praying at the temple, I fell into a trance
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Ezekiel 8:1–3
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.
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1 Thessalonians 4:17
After 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.
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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.
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2 Corinthians 11:11
Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!
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Isaiah 57:15
For 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.
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1 Kings 18:12
I 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.
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Isaiah 45:24–25
Surely 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.
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