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Paul and the False Apostles
I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me!
I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me!
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.
For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
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 am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion 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.
For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.
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].
Indeed, I consider that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles.
For I reckon that in nothing I am behind those who are in surpassing degree apostles.
Even if I am unskilled in speaking, I am not so in knowledge; indeed, in every way we have made this plain to you in all 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.
Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached God’s gospel to you free of charge?
Have I committed sin, abasing myself in order that *ye* might be exalted, because I gratuitously announced to you the glad tidings of God?
I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you.
I spoiled other assemblies, receiving hire for ministry towards you.
And when I was with you and was in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need. So I refrained and will refrain from burdening you in any way.
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.
As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.
[The] truth of Christ is in me that this boasting shall not be stopped as to me in the regions of Achaia.
And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!
Why? because I do not love you? God knows.
And what I am doing I will continue to do, in order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted mission they work on the same terms as we 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.
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.
And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
And [it is] not wonderful, for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.
So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.
It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
Paul’s Sufferings as an Apostle
I repeat, let no one think me foolish. But even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.
I repeat, let no one think me foolish. But even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.
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.
What I speak I do not speak according to [the] Lord, but as in folly, in this confidence of boasting.
Since many boast according to the flesh, I too will boast.
Since many boast according to flesh, *I* also will boast.
For you bear it if someone makes slaves of you, or devours you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or strikes you in the face.
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.
To my shame, I must say, we were too weak for that!
But whatever anyone else dares to boast of — I am speaking as a fool — I also dare to boast of that.
But whatever anyone else dares to boast of — I am speaking as a fool — I also dare to boast of that.
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.
Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they offspring of Abraham? So am I.
Are they Hebrews? *I* also. Are they Israelites? *I* also. Are they seed of Abraham? *I* also.
Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one — I am talking like a madman — with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death.
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.
Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one.
From the Jews five times have I received forty [stripes], save one.
Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea;
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:
on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers;
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;
in labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches.
Besides those things that are without, the crowd [of cares] pressing on me daily, the burden of all the assemblies.
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I burn not?
If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.
If it is needful to boast, I will boast in the things which concern my infirmity.
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus knows -- he who is blessed for ever -- that I do not lie.
At Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus in order to seize me,
In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes shut up, wishing to take me;