Welcome to our website where we explore the Bible! Pleasure to meet you here!
May your journey into the world of the Holy Scriptures be engaging and inspiring!
You can change reading language: uk ru
Parallel
Darby Bible Translation
New American Standard Bible
Paul and the False Apostles
Would that ye would bear with me [in] a little folly; but indeed bear with me.
Would that ye would bear with me [in] a little folly; but indeed bear with me.
Paul Defends His Apostleship
I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness; but indeed you are bearing with me.
I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness; but indeed you are bearing with me.
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.
For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin.
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.
But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.
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].
For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you bear this beautifully.
For I reckon that in nothing I am behind those who are in surpassing degree apostles.
For I consider myself not in the least inferior to the most eminent apostles.
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.
But even if I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in knowledge; in fact, in every way we have made this evident to you in all things.
Have I committed sin, abasing myself in order that *ye* might be exalted, because I gratuitously announced to you the glad tidings of God?
Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge?
I spoiled other assemblies, receiving hire for ministry towards you.
I robbed other churches by taking wages from them to serve you;
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.
and when I was present with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for when the brethren came from Macedonia they fully supplied my need, and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will continue to do so.
[The] truth of Christ is in me that this boasting shall not be stopped as to me in the regions of Achaia.
As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.
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.
But what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the matter about which they are boasting.
For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
And [it is] not wonderful, for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.
No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds.
Paul's Sufferings and Service
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.
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.
Again I say, let no one think me foolish; but if you do, receive me even as foolish, so that I also may boast a little.
What I speak I do not speak according to [the] Lord, but as in folly, in this confidence of boasting.
What I am saying, I am not saying as the Lord would, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
Since many boast according to flesh, *I* also will boast.
Since many boast according to the flesh, I will boast also.
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.
For you tolerate it if anyone enslaves you, anyone devours you, anyone takes advantage of you, anyone exalts himself, anyone hits you in the face.
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.
To my shame I must say that we have been weak by comparison.
But in whatever respect anyone else is bold — I speak in foolishness — I am just as bold myself.
But in whatever respect anyone else is bold — I speak in foolishness — I am just as bold myself.
Are they Hebrews? *I* also. Are they Israelites? *I* also. Are they seed of Abraham? *I* also.
Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.
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.
Are they servants of Christ? — I speak as if insane — I more so; in far more labors, in far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, often in danger of death.
From the Jews five times have I received forty [stripes], save one.
Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine lashes.
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:
Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent in the deep.
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;
I have been on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers on the sea, dangers among false brethren;
in labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.
Besides those things that are without, the crowd [of cares] pressing on me daily, the burden of all the assemblies.
Apart from such external things, there is the daily pressure on me of concern for all the churches.
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I burn not?
Who is weak without my being weak? Who is led into sin without my intense concern?
If it is needful to boast, I will boast in the things which concern my infirmity.
If I have to boast, I will boast of what pertains to my weakness.
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus knows -- he who is blessed for ever -- that I do not lie.
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.
In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes shut up, wishing to take me;
In Damascus the ethnarch under Aretas the king was guarding the city of the Damascenes in order to seize me,