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| [1]Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. |
[1]Would to God, ye could suffer a little my foolishness, and in deed, ye suffer me. |
| [2]For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. |
[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: |
| [3]But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in 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. |
| [4]For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. |
[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. |
| [5]For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. |
[5]Verily I suppose that I was not inferior to the very chief Apostles. |
| [6]But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things. |
[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. |
| [7]Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? |
[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? |
| [8]I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service. |
[8]I robbed other Churches, and took wages of them to do you service. |
| [9]And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself. |
[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. |
| [10]As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. |
[10]The truth of Christ is in me, that this rejoicing shall not be shut up against me in the regions of Achaia. |
| [11]Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. |
[11]Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth. |
| [12]But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we. |
[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. |
| [13]For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. |
[13]For such false apostles are deceitful workers, and transform themselves into the Apostles of Christ. |
| [14]And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. |
[14]And no marvel: for Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of light. |
| [15]Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. |
[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. |
| [16]I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. |
[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. |
| [17]That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. |
[17]That I speak, I speak it not after the Lord: but as it were foolishly, in this my great boasting. |
| [18]Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. |
[18]Seeing that many rejoice after the flesh, I will rejoice also. |
| [19]For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. |
[19]For ye suffer fools gladly, because that ye are wise. |
| [20]For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. |
[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. |
| [21]I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also. |
[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. |
| [22]Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. |
[22]They are Hebrews, so am I: they are Israelites, so am I: they are the seed of Abraham, so am I: |
| [23]Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. |
[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. |
| [24]Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. |
[24]Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. |
| [25]Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; |
[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. |
| [26]In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; |
[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, |
| [27]In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. |
[27]In weariness and painfulness, in watching often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and in nakedness. |
| [28]Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. |
[28]Beside the things which are outward, I am cumbered daily, and have the care of all the Churches. |
| [29]Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? |
[29]Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? |
| [30]If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities. |
[30]If I must needs rejoice, I will rejoice of mine infirmities. |
| [31]The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. |
[31]The God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. |
| [32]In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: |
[32]In Damascus the governor of the people under King Aretas, laid watch in the city of the Damascenes, and would have caught me. |
| [33]And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands. |
[33]But at a window was I let down in a basket through the wall, and escaped his hands. |