< 2 Corinthians 11 >

1 I hope you will bear with a little of my foolishness, but you are already doing that.
BUT I could desire that you could tolerate me a little that I may speak foolishly.
2 I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
Nevertheless tolerate me, for I am zealous towards you with the zeal of Aloha; for I have betrothed you to one man, a pure virgin, whom I would bring unto the Meshiha.
3 I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.
But I fear lest, as the serpent deceived 'Hava by his guile, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is toward the Meshiha.
4 For if someone comes and proclaims a Jesus other than the One we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit than the One you received, or a different gospel than the one you accepted, you put up with it way too easily.
For if he who hath come to you shall preach to you another Jeshu, whom we have not preached, or you receive another Spirit which you have not received or another gospel which you have not accepted, you would have been well persuaded.
5 I consider myself in no way inferior to those “super-apostles.”
For I consider that I am nothing inferior to those apostles who are most excellent.
6 Although I am not a polished speaker, I am certainly not lacking in knowledge. We have made this clear to you in every way possible.
For if I am rude in my speech, I yet am not in my knowledge; but in every thing we are manifest among you.
7 Was it a sin for me to humble myself in order to exalt you, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge?
Or, offending have I offended in humbling myself that you may be exalted, and have gratuitously preached to you the gospel of Aloha?
8 I robbed other churches by accepting their support in order to serve you.
And other churches have I despoiled, receiving of them expenses, for your service.
9 And when I was with you and in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my needs. I have refrained from being a burden to you in any way, and I will continue to do so.
And being come among you, I burdened no man of you; for my want the brethren who came from Makedunia supplied: and in every thing have I kept myself, and will keep, that I may not be burdensome to you.
10 As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.
The truth of the Meshiha is in me, that this boasting shall not be abolished respecting me in the regions of Akaia.
11 Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!
Why? because I love you not? Aloha himself knoweth!
12 But I will keep on doing what I am doing, in order to undercut those who want an opportunity to be regarded as our equals in the things of which they boast.
But I do this, and also will do it, to cut off the occasion of them who seek an occasion, that in the thing in which they boast they may be found as we are.
13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
For these are apostles of falsehood and workers of deceits, assimilating themselves to the apostles of the Meshiha.
14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
Nor in this may we wonder, if Satana himself be transformed into an angel of light.
15 It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their actions.
Nor is it a great thing if his ministers also are transformed into ministers of righteousness; -whose end will be according to their works.
16 I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then receive me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.
BUT I say again, Let no man think of me as a fool; or if otherwise, let him receive me as a fool, that I also may boast a little.
17 In this confident boasting of mine, I am not speaking as the Lord would, but as a fool.
The thing which I (now) speak, I do not speak in our Lord, but as in foolishness in this place of boasting.
18 Since many are boasting according to the flesh, I too will boast.
Because many boast in the flesh, I also will boast.
19 For you gladly tolerate fools, since you are so wise.
For you are content to listen to the feebleminded, you yourselves being wise.
20 In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or exalts himself or strikes you in the face.
For you are ruled by one who subjugates you, and by one who devours you, and by one who takes away from you, and by one who exalts himself over you, and by one who smites you on your faces!
21 To my shame I concede that we were too weak for that! Speaking as a fool, however, I can match what anyone else dares to boast about.
As in abasement I speak; as though we were weak through defectiveness of mind, I speak. In whatever any man dareth, I also dare.
22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.
If they are Ebroyee, so am I; if they are Isroloyee, so am I; if they are the seed of Abraham, so am I;
23 Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.
if they are ministers of the Meshiha, -I speak with defectiveness of mind, -I exceed then! In labours I exceed them, in stripes I exceed them, in chains I exceed them, in deaths many times.
24 Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.
From the Jihudoyee, five times, forty (stripes) wanting one have I devoured;
25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.
three times with staves have I been beaten, once was I stoned, three times have I been in shipwreck, a day and a night without a ship have I been in the sea.
26 In my frequent journeys, I have been in danger from rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the Gentiles, in danger in the city and in the country, in danger on the sea and among false brothers,
In journeys many, in danger of rivers, in danger of robbers, in danger from my own race, in danger from the Gentiles; I have been in danger in cities, I have been in danger in the waste, in danger by sea, in danger from false brethren;
27 in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.
in labour and weariness, in much watching, in hunger and thirst, in much fasting, in cold and in nakedness;
28 Apart from these external trials, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.
besides the aboundings and the gathering which are upon me daily even my care which is for all the churches.
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with grief?
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I burn not?
30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.
If I must boast in my infirmities, I will boast.
31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is forever worthy of praise, knows that I am not lying. (aiōn g165)
Aloha, the Father of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, the Blessed for ever and ever, knoweth that I lie not. (aiōn g165)
32 In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas secured the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me.
In Darmsuk the great force of Aretos the king kept the city of the Darmsukoyee to apprehend me.
33 But I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his grasp.
And from a window in a basket they sent me from the wall, and I was delivered from his hands.

< 2 Corinthians 11 >