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| [1]Would to God, ye could suffer a little my foolishness, and in deed, ye suffer me. |
[1]O that ye were bearing with me a little of the folly, but ye also do bear with me: |
| [2]For I am jealous over you, with godly jealousy: for I have prepared you for one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ: |
[2]for I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I did betroth you to one husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ, |
| [3]But I fear lest as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupt from the simplicity that is in Christ. |
[3]and I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that [is] in the Christ; |
| [4]For if he that cometh, preacheth another Jesus than him whom we have preached: or if ye receive another spirit than that which ye have received: either another Gospel, than that ye have received, ye might well have suffered him. |
[4]for if, indeed, he who is coming doth preach another Jesus whom we did not preach, or another Spirit ye receive which ye did not receive, or other good news which ye did not accept -- well were ye bearing [it], |
| [5]Verily I suppose that I was not inferior to the very chief Apostles. |
[5]for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles, |
| [6]And though I be rude in speaking, yet I am not so in knowledge, but among you we have been made manifest to the utmost, in all things. |
[6]and even if unlearned in word -- yet not in knowledge, but in every thing we were made manifest in all things to you. |
| [7]Have I committed an offence, because I abased myself, that ye might be exalted, and because I preached to you the Gospel of God freely? |
[7]The sin did I do -- myself humbling that ye might be exalted, because freely the good news of God I did proclaim to you? |
| [8]I robbed other Churches, and took wages of them to do you service. |
[8]other assemblies I did rob, having taken wages, for your ministration; |
| [9]And when I was present with you, and had need, I was not slothful to the hinderance of any man: for that which was lacking unto me, the brethren which came from Macedonia, supplied, and in all things I kept and will keep myself that I should not be grievous to you. |
[9]and being present with you, and having been in want, I was chargeable to no one, for my lack did the brethren supply -- having come from Macedonia -- and in everything burdenless to you I did keep myself, and will keep. |
| [10]The truth of Christ is in me, that this rejoicing shall not be shut up against me in the regions of Achaia. |
[10]The truth of Christ is in me, because this boasting shall not be stopped in regard to me in the regions of Achaia; |
| [11]Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth. |
[11]wherefore? because I do not love you? God hath known! |
| [12]But what I do, that will I do: that I may cut away occasion from them which desire occasion, that they might be found like unto us in that wherein they rejoice. |
[12]and what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in that which they boast they may be found according as we also; |
| [13]For such false apostles are deceitful workers, and transform themselves into the Apostles of Christ. |
[13]for those such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ, |
| [14]And no marvel: for Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of light. |
[14]and no wonder -- for even the Adversary doth transform himself into a messenger of light; |
| [15]Therefore it is no great thing, though his ministers transform themselves, as though they were the ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works. |
[15]no great thing, then, if also his ministrants do transform themselves as ministrants of righteousness -- whose end shall be according to their works. |
| [16]I say again, let no man think, that I am foolish: or else take me even as a fool, that I also may boast myself a little. |
[16]Again I say, may no one think me to be a fool; and if otherwise, even as a fool receive me, that I also a little may boast. |
| [17]That I speak, I speak it not after the Lord: but as it were foolishly, in this my great boasting. |
[17]That which I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this the confidence of boasting; |
| [18]Seeing that many rejoice after the flesh, I will rejoice also. |
[18]since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast: |
| [19]For ye suffer fools gladly, because that ye are wise. |
[19]for gladly do ye bear with the fools -- being wise, |
| [20]For ye suffer even if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take your goods, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. |
[20]for ye bear, if any one is bringing you under bondage, if any one doth devour, if any one doth take away, if any one doth exalt himself, if any one on the face doth smite you; |
| [21]I speak as concerning the reproach: as though that we had been weak: but wherein any man is bold (I speak foolishly) I am bold also. |
[21]in reference to dishonour I speak, how that we were weak, and in whatever any one is bold -- in foolishness I say [it] -- I also am bold. |
| [22]They are Hebrews, so am I: they are Israelites, so am I: they are the seed of Abraham, so am I: |
[22]Hebrews are they? I also! Israelites are they? I also! seed of Abraham are they? I also! |
| [23]They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as a fool) I am more: in labors more abundant: in stripes above measure: in prison more plenteously: in death oft. |
[23]ministrants of Christ are they? -- as beside myself I speak -- I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times; |
| [24]Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. |
[24]from Jews five times forty [stripes] save one I did receive; |
| [25]I was thrice beaten with rods: I was once stoned: I suffered thrice shipwreck: night and day have I been in the deep sea. |
[25]thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a night and a day in the deep I have passed; |
| [26]In journeying I was often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of mine own nation, in perils among the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren, |
[26]journeyings many times, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from kindred, perils from nations, perils in city, perils in wilderness, perils in sea, perils among false brethren; |
| [27]In weariness and painfulness, in watching often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and in nakedness. |
[27]in laboriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness; |
| [28]Beside the things which are outward, I am cumbered daily, and have the care of all the Churches. |
[28]apart from the things without -- the crowding upon me that is daily -- the care of all the assemblies. |
| [29]Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? |
[29]Who is infirm, and I am not infirm? who is stumbled, and I am not fired; |
| [30]If I must needs rejoice, I will rejoice of mine infirmities. |
[30]if to boast it behoveth [me], of the things of my infirmity I will boast; |
| [31]The God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. |
[31]the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ -- who is blessed to the ages -- hath known that I do not lie! -- |
| [32]In Damascus the governor of the people under King Aretas, laid watch in the city of the Damascenes, and would have caught me. |
[32]In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king was watching the city of the Damascenes, wishing to seize me, |
| [33]But at a window was I let down in a basket through the wall, and escaped his hands. |
[33]and through a window in a rope basket I was let down, through the wall, and fled out of his hands. |