1. If it is necessary (though certainly not expedient) to glory, then I will next tell of visions and revelations from the Lord.
2. I know a man in Christ, who, more than fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I do not know, or out of the body, I do not know: God knows), was enraptured to the third heaven.
3. And I know a certain man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I do not know: God knows),
4. who was enraptured into Paradise. And he heard words of mystery, which it is not permitted for man to speak.
5. On behalf of someone like this, I will glory. But on behalf of myself, I will not glory about anything, except my infirmities.