| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness; but indeed you are bearing with me. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2For 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. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3But 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. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4For 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. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For I consider myself not in the least inferior to the most eminent apostles. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6But 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. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Or 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? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8I robbed other churches by taking wages from them to serve you; |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9and 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. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do! |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12But 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. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Again 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. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17What I am saying, I am not saying as the Lord would, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Since many boast according to the flesh, I will boast also. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19For you, being so wise, tolerate the foolish gladly. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20For you tolerate it if anyone enslaves you, anyone devours you, anyone takes advantage of you, anyone exalts himself, anyone hits you in the face. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21To 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. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Are 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. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine lashes. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Three 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. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26I 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; |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Apart from such external things, there is the daily pressure on me of concern for all the churches. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Who is weak without my being weak? Who is led into sin without my intense concern? |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30If I have to boast, I will boast of what pertains to my weakness. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32In Damascus the ethnarch under Aretas the king was guarding the city of the Damascenes in order to seize me, |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33and I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and so escaped his hands. |
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