2 karinthinaH 11

1 yUyaM mamAjnjAnatAM kSaNaM yAvat sOPhum arhatha, ataH sA yuSmAbhiH sahyatAM|

Would that ye would bear with me [in] a little folly; but indeed bear with me.

2 IzvarE mamAsaktatvAd ahaM yuSmAnadhi tapE yasmAt satIM kanyAmiva yuSmAn Ekasmin varE'rthataH khrISTE samarpayitum ahaM vAgdAnam akArSaM|

For I am jealous as to you with a jealousy [which is] of God; for I have espoused you unto one man, to present [you] a chaste virgin to Christ.

3 kintu sarpENa svakhalatayA yadvad havA vanjcayAnjcakE tadvat khrISTaM prati satItvAd yuSmAkaM bhraMzaH sambhaviSyatIti bibhEmi|

But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craft, [so] your thoughts should be corrupted from simplicity as to the Christ.

4 asmAbhiranAkhyApitO'paraH kazcid yIzu ryadi kEnacid AgantukEnAkhyApyatE yuSmAbhiH prAgalabdha AtmA vA yadi labhyatE prAgagRhItaH susaMvAdO vA yadi gRhyatE tarhi manyE yUyaM samyak sahiSyadhvE|

For if indeed he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or ye get a different Spirit, which ye have not got, or a different glad tidings, which ye have not received, ye might well bear with [it].

5 kintu mukhyEbhyaH prEritEbhyO'haM kEnacit prakArENa nyUnO nAsmIti budhyE|

For I reckon that in nothing I am behind those who are in surpassing degree apostles.

6 mama vAkpaTutAyA nyUnatvE satyapi jnjAnasya nyUnatvaM nAsti kintu sarvvaviSayE vayaM yuSmadgOcarE prakAzAmahE|

But if [I am] a simple person in speech, yet not in knowledge, but in everything making [the truth] manifest in all things to you.

7 yuSmAkam unnatyai mayA namratAM svIkRtyEzvarasya susaMvAdO vinA vEtanaM yuSmAkaM madhyE yad aghOSyata tEna mayA kiM pApam akAri?

Have I committed sin, abasing myself in order that ye might be exalted, because I gratuitously announced to you the glad tidings of God?

8 yuSmAkaM sEvanAyAham anyasamitibhyO bhRti gRhlan dhanamapahRtavAn,

I spoiled other assemblies, receiving hire for ministry towards you.

9 yadA ca yuSmanmadhyE'va'rttE tadA mamArthAbhAvE jAtE yuSmAkaM kO'pi mayA na pIPitaH; yatO mama sO'rthAbhAvO mAkidaniyAdEzAd Agatai bhrAtRbhi nyavAryyata, itthamahaM kkApi viSayE yathA yuSmAsu bhArO na bhavAmi tathA mayAtmarakSA kRtA karttavyA ca|

And being present with you and lacking, I did not lazily burden any one, (for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied what I lacked, ) and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will keep myself.

10 khrISTasya satyatA yadi mayi tiSThati tarhi mamaiSA zlAghA nikhilAkhAyAdEzE kEnApi na rOtsyatE|

[The] truth of Christ is in me that this boasting shall not be stopped as to me in the regions of Achaia.

11 Etasya kAraNaM kiM? yuSmAsu mama prEma nAstyEtat kiM tatkAraNaM? tad IzvarO vEtti|

Why? because I do not love you? God knows.

12 yE chidramanviSyanti tE yat kimapi chidraM na labhantE tadarthamEva tat karmma mayA kriyatE kAriSyatE ca tasmAt tE yEna zlAghantE tEnAsmAkaM samAnA bhaviSyanti|

But what I do, I will also do, that I may cut off the opportunity of those wishing [for] an opportunity, that wherein they boast they may be found even as we.

13 tAdRzA bhAktaprEritAH pravanjcakAH kAravO bhUtvA khrISTasya prEritAnAM vEzaM dhArayanti|

For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.

14 taccAzcaryyaM nahi; yataH svayaM zayatAnapi tEjasvidUtasya vEzaM dhArayati,

And [it is] not wonderful, for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.

15 tatastasya paricArakA api dharmmaparicArakANAM vEzaM dhArayantItyadbhutaM nahi; kintu tESAM karmmANi yAdRzAni phalAnyapi tAdRzAni bhaviSyanti|

It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

16 ahaM puna rvadAmi kO'pi mAM nirbbOdhaM na manyatAM kinjca yadyapi nirbbOdhO bhavEyaM tathApi yUyaM nirbbOdhamiva mAmanugRhya kSaNaikaM yAvat mamAtmazlAghAm anujAnIta|

Again I say, Let not any one think me to be a fool; but if otherwise, receive me then even as a fool, that I also may boast myself some little.

17 EtasyAH zlAghAyA nimittaM mayA yat kathitavyaM tat prabhunAdiSTEnEva kathyatE tannahi kintu nirbbOdhEnEva|

What I speak I do not speak according to [the] Lord, but as in folly, in this confidence of boasting.

18 aparE bahavaH zArIrikazlAghAM kurvvatE tasmAd ahamapi zlAghiSyE|

Since many boast according to flesh, I also will boast.

19 buddhimantO yUyaM sukhEna nirbbOdhAnAm AcAraM sahadhvE|

For ye bear fools readily, being wise.

20 kO'pi yadi yuSmAn dAsAn karOti yadi vA yuSmAkaM sarvvasvaM grasati yadi vA yuSmAn harati yadi vAtmAbhimAnI bhavati yadi vA yuSmAkaM kapOlam Ahanti tarhi tadapi yUyaM sahadhvE|

For ye bear if any one bring you into bondage, if any one devour [you], if any one get [your money], if any one exalt himself, if any one beat you on the face.

21 daurbbalyAd yuSmAbhiravamAnitA iva vayaM bhASAmahE, kintvaparasya kasyacid yEna pragalbhatA jAyatE tEna mamApi pragalbhatA jAyata iti nirbbOdhEnEva mayA vaktavyaM|

I speak as to dishonour, as though we had been weak; but wherein any one is daring, (I speak in folly, ) I also am daring.

22 tE kim ibrilOkAH? ahamapIbrI| tE kim isrAyElIyAH? ahamapIsrAyElIyaH| tE kim ibrAhImO vaMzAH? ahamapIbrAhImO vaMzaH|

Are they Hebrews? I also. Are they Israelites? I also. Are they seed of Abraham? I also.

23 tE kiM khrISTasya paricArakAH? ahaM tEbhyO'pi tasya mahAparicArakaH; kintu nirbbOdha iva bhASE, tEbhyO'pyahaM bahuparizramE bahuprahArE bahuvAraM kArAyAM bahuvAraM prANanAzasaMzayE ca patitavAn|

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as being beside myself) I above measure [so]; in labours exceedingly abundant, in stripes to excess, in prisons exceedingly abundant, in deaths oft.

24 yihUdIyairahaM panjcakRtva UnacatvAriMzatprahArairAhatastrirvEtrAghAtam EkakRtvaH prastarAghAtanjca praptavAn|

From the Jews five times have I received forty [stripes], save one.

25 vAratrayaM pOtabhanjjanEna kliSTO'ham agAdhasalilE dinamEkaM rAtrimEkAnjca yApitavAn|

Thrice have I been scourged, once I have been stoned, three times I have suffered shipwreck, a night and day I passed in the deep:

26 bahuvAraM yAtrAbhi rnadInAM sagkaTai rdasyUnAM sagkaTaiH svajAtIyAnAM sagkaTai rbhinnajAtIyAnAM sagkaTai rnagarasya sagkaTai rmarubhUmEH sagkaTai sAgarasya sagkaTai rbhAktabhrAtRNAM sagkaTaizca

in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from [my own] race, in perils from [the] nations, in perils in [the] city, in perils in [the] desert, in perils on [the] sea, in perils among false brethren;

27 parizramaklEzAbhyAM vAraM vAraM jAgaraNEna kSudhAtRSNAbhyAM bahuvAraM nirAhArENa zItanagnatAbhyAnjcAhaM kAlaM yApitavAn|

in labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

28 tAdRzaM naimittikaM duHkhaM vinAhaM pratidinam AkulO bhavAmi sarvvAsAM samitInAM cintA ca mayi varttatE|

Besides those things that are without, the crowd [of cares] pressing on me daily, the burden of all the assemblies.

29 yEnAhaM na durbbalIbhavAmi tAdRzaM daurbbalyaM kaH pApnOti?

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I burn not?

30 yadi mayA zlAghitavyaM tarhi svadurbbalatAmadhi zlAghiSyE|

If it is needful to boast, I will boast in the things which concern my infirmity.

31 mayA mRSAvAkyaM na kathyata iti nityaM prazaMsanIyO'smAkaM prabhO ryIzukhrISTasya tAta IzvarO jAnAti| (aiōn g165)

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus knows — he who is blessed for ever — that I do not lie. (aiōn g165)

32 dammESakanagarE'ritArAjasya kAryyAdhyakSO mAM dharttum icchan yadA sainyaistad dammESakanagaram arakSayat

In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes shut up, wishing to take me;

33 tadAhaM lOkaiH piTakamadhyE prAcIragavAkSENAvarOhitastasya karAt trANaM prApaM|

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