2 Corinthians 11

1 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.

BUT I could desire that you could tolerate me a little that I may speak foolishly.

2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might 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 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the sincerity and purity that is in 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 he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different "good news", which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.

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 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

For I consider that I am nothing inferior to those apostles who are most excellent.

6 Even though I am unskilled in speech, I am not unskilled in knowledge. But in every way we have made this known to you in all things.

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 Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Good News 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, taking wages from them that I might serve you.

And other churches have I despoiled, receiving of them expenses, for your service.

9 When I was present with you and was in need, I was not a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, 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 the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting 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.

Why? because I love you not? Aloha himself knoweth!

12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

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 people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ's apostles.

For these are apostles of falsehood and workers of deceits, assimilating themselves to the apostles of the Meshiha.

14 And no wonder, for even Satan 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 no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

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 say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also 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 That which I speak, I do not speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

The thing which I (now) speak, I do not speak in our Lord, but as in foolishness in this place of boasting.

18 Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.

Because many boast in the flesh, I also will boast.

19 For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.

For you are content to listen to the feebleminded, you yourselves being wise.

20 For you put up with it if someone makes slaves of you, if someone exploits you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone exalts himself, if someone strikes you on 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 I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet however any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

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 speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

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 from the Jews I received forty stripes 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 suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.

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 I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from those who are not Jews, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils 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 travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

in labour and weariness, in much watching, in hunger and thirst, in much fasting, in cold and in nakedness;

28 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily, anxiety 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 caused to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?

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 concern my weakness.

If I must boast in my infirmities, I will boast.

31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forevermore, knows that I do not lie. (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 Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes, desiring to arrest me.

In Darmsuk the great force of Aretos the king kept the city of the Darmsukoyee to apprehend me.

33 Through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.

And from a window in a basket they sent me from the wall, and I was delivered from his hands.