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| [1]I would that ye could bear with me a little, that I might talk foolishly: and indeed, bear ye 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 a godly jealousy : for I have espoused you to a husband as a chaste virgin, whom I would present to the Messiah. |
[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, as the serpent beguiled Eve by his craftiness, so your minds should be corrupted from simplicity towards the Messiah. |
[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 to you, had proclaimed to you another Jesus, whom we have not proclaimed; or if ye had received another Spirit, which ye have not received; or another gospel, which ye have not accepted; ye might well have given assent. |
[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 came not short of those legates who most excel. |
[5]Verily I suppose that I was not inferior to the very chief Apostles. |
| [6]For, though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but in all things we have been manifest among you. |
[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]Did I indeed commit an offence, by humbling myself that ye might be exalted? and by proclaiming the gospel of God to you gratis? |
[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]And I robbed other churches, and I took pay [of them] for ministering to you. |
[8]I robbed other Churches, and took wages of them to do you service. |
| [9]And when I came among you and was needy, I was burdensome to none of you; for the brethren who came from Macedonia, supplied my wants: and in all things I kept myself, and I will keep myself, from being burdensome to you. |
[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 the Messiah is in me, this glorying shall not be made vain as to me 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]Why? Because I do not love you? God knoweth. |
[11]Wherefore? Because I love you not? God knoweth. |
| [12]But what I do, that also I will do; that I may cut off occasion, from them who seek occasion: so that in the thing 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 they are false legates, crafty workers, and feign themselves to be legates of the Messiah. |
[13]For such false apostles are deceitful workers, and transform themselves into the Apostles of Christ. |
| [14]And in this there is nothing strange. For if Satan feigneth himself an angel of light, |
[14]And no marvel: for Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of light. |
| [15]it is no great thing if his ministers feign themselves 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]Again I say, let no one think of me, as being a fool: or if otherwise, receive me as a fool, that I may glory 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]What I am [now] saying, I say not in our Lord, but as in folly, in this matter of glorying. |
[17]That I speak, I speak it not after the Lord: but as it were foolishly, in this my great boasting. |
| [18]Because many glory after the flesh, I also will glory. |
[18]Seeing that many rejoice after the flesh, I will rejoice also. |
| [19]For ye hear with indulgence them who lack reason, seeing ye are wise. |
[19]For ye suffer fools gladly, because that ye are wise. |
| [20]And ye give ear to him, who putteth you in bondage; and to him, who devoureth you; and to him, who taketh from you; and to him, who exalteth himself over you; and to him, who smiteth you in 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 if under contempt: I speak as if we were impotent, through deficiency of understanding; that in whatever thing any one is presuming, I also am presuming. |
[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]If they are Hebrews, so I also: or if they are Israelites, I also. If they are the seed of Abraham, I also. |
[22]They are Hebrews, so am I: they are Israelites, so am I: they are the seed of Abraham, so am I: |
| [23]If they are ministers of the Messiah, (in defect of understanding, I say it,) I am superior to them: in toils more than they, in stripes more than they, in bonds more than they, in deaths many times. |
[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]By the Jews, five times was I scourged, each time with forty stripes save one. |
[24]Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. |
| [25]Three times was I beaten with rods: at one time I was stoned: three times I was in shipwreck, by day and by night; I have been in the sea, without a ship. |
[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 many, in peril by rivers, in peril by robbers, in peril from my kindred, in peril from Gentiles: I have been in peril in cities; I have been in peril in the desert, in peril in the sea, in peril from 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 toil and weariness, in much watching, in hunger and thirst, in much fasting, 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]besides many other things, and the thronging around me every day, and my anxiety for all the churches. |
[28]Beside the things which are outward, I am cumbered daily, and have the care of all the Churches. |
| [29]Who becometh weak, and I become not weak? Who is stumbled, and I burn not? |
[29]Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? |
| [30]If I must glory, I will glory in my infirmities. |
[30]If I must needs rejoice, I will rejoice of mine infirmities. |
| [31]God, the Father of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, blessed for ever and ever, he 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]At Damascus, the commander of the army of Aretas the king, guarded the city of the Damascenes, to seize 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 from a window, in a basket, they let me down from the wall, and I escaped from his hands. |
[33]But at a window was I let down in a basket through the wall, and escaped his hands. |