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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 and the False Apostles
I hope you will put up with a little more of my foolishness. Please bear with me.
I hope you will put up with a little more of my foolishness. Please bear 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.
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 fear that somehow your pure and undivided devotion to Christ will be corrupted, just as Eve was deceived by the cunning ways of the serpent.
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].
You happily put up with whatever anyone tells you, even if they preach a different Jesus than the one we preach, or a different kind of Spirit than the one you received, or a different kind of gospel than the one you believed.
For I reckon that in nothing I am behind those who are in surpassing degree apostles.
But I don’t consider myself inferior in any way to these “super apostles” who teach such things.
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.
I may be unskilled as a speaker, but I’m not lacking in knowledge. We have made this clear to you in every possible way.
Have I committed sin, abasing myself in order that *ye* might be exalted, because I gratuitously announced to you the glad tidings of God?
Was I wrong when I humbled myself and honored you by preaching God’s Good News to you without expecting anything in return?
I spoiled other assemblies, receiving hire for ministry towards you.
I “robbed” other churches by accepting their contributions so I could serve you at no cost.
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 with you and didn’t have enough to live on, I did not become a financial burden to anyone. For the brothers who came from Macedonia brought me all that I needed. I have never been a burden to you, and I never will be.
[The] truth of Christ is in me that this boasting shall not be stopped as to me in the regions of Achaia.
Why? because I do not love you? God knows.
Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows that I do.
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 I will continue doing what I have always done. This will undercut those who are looking for an opportunity to boast that their work is just like ours.
For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.
These people are false apostles. They are deceitful workers who disguise themselves as apostles of Christ.
And [it is] not wonderful, for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.
But I am not surprised! 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.
So it is no wonder that his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. In the end they will get the punishment their wicked deeds deserve.
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.
Paul’s Many Trials
Again I say, don’t think that I am a fool to talk like this. But even if you do, listen to me, as you would to a foolish person, while I also boast a little.
What I speak I do not speak according to [the] Lord, but as in folly, in this confidence of boasting.
Such boasting is not from the Lord, but I am acting like a fool.
Since many boast according to flesh, *I* also will boast.
And since others boast about their human achievements, I will, too.
For ye bear fools readily, being wise.
After all, you think you are so wise, but you enjoy putting up with fools!
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.
You put up with it when someone enslaves you, takes everything you have, takes advantage of you, takes control of everything, and slaps 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.
I’m ashamed to say that we’ve been too “weak” to do that!
But whatever they dare to boast about — I’m talking like a fool again — I dare to boast about it, too.
But whatever they dare to boast about — I’m talking like a fool again — I dare to boast about it, too.
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 know I sound like a madman, but I have served him far more! I have worked harder, been put in prison more often, been whipped times without number, and faced death again and again.
From the Jews five times have I received forty [stripes], save one.
Five different times the Jewish leaders gave me 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. Once I spent a whole night and a day adrift at sea.
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 traveled on many long journeys. I have faced danger from rivers and from robbers. I have faced danger from my own people, the Jews, as well as from the Gentiles. I have faced danger in the cities, in the deserts, and on the seas. And I have faced danger from men who claim to be believers but are not.c
in labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
I have worked hard and long, enduring many sleepless nights. I have been hungry and thirsty and have often gone without food. I have shivered in the cold, without enough clothing to keep me warm.
Besides those things that are without, the crowd [of cares] pressing on me daily, the burden of all the assemblies.
Then, besides all this, I have the daily burden of my 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 feeling that weakness? Who is led astray, and I do not burn with anger?
If it is needful to boast, I will boast in the things which concern my infirmity.
If I must boast, I would rather boast about the things that show how weak I am.
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus knows -- he who is blessed for ever -- that I do not lie.
God, the Father of our Lord Jesus, who is worthy of eternal praise, knows I am not lying.
In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes shut up, wishing to take me;
When I was in Damascus, the governor under King Aretas kept guards at the city gates to catch me.