The Concordant Literal New Testament

Paul To The Corinthians (II.)

¹ Would that you had borne with any little imprudence of mine! Nay, and be bearing with me,
² for I am jealous over you with a jealousy of God. For I betroth you to one Man, to present a chaste virgin to Christ.
³ Yet I fear lest somehow, as the serpent deludes Eve by its craftiness, your apprehensions should be corrupted from the singleness and pureness which is in Christ.
⁴ For if, indeed, he who is coming is heralding another Jesus whom we do not herald, or you are obtaining a different spirit, which you did not obtain, or a different evangel, which you do not receive, you are bearing with him ideally.
⁵ For I am reckoning to be deficient in nothing pertaining to the paramount apostles.
⁶ Yet even if I am plain in expression, nevertheless I am not in knowledge, but in everything being made manifest in all for you.
⁷ Or do I sin in humbling myself that you may be exalted, seeing that I bring the evangel of God to you gratuitously?
⁸ Other ecclesias I despoil, getting rations for dispensing to you.
⁹ And, being present with you and in want, I am not an encumberance to anyone (for the brethren coming from Macedonia replenish my wants), and in everything I keep and shall be keeping myself that I be not burdensome to you.
¹⁰ The truth of Christ is in me, for this boasting shall not be barred from me in the regions of Achaia.
¹¹ Wherefore? Seeing that I am not loving you? God is aware!
¹² Now what I am doing and will be doing is that I should strike off the incentive from those wanting an incentive, that in what they are boasting they may be found according as we also.
¹³ For such are false apostles, fraudulent workers, being transfigured into apostles of Christ.
¹⁴ And no marvel, for Satan himself is being transfigured into a messenger of light.
¹⁵ It is no great thing, then, if his servants also are being transfigured as dispensers of righteousness -- whose consummation shall be according to their acts.
¹⁶ Again I am saying, no one should presume me to be imprudent. Otherwise surely, even if it should be as imprudent, receive me, that I also should boast some little!
¹⁷ What I speak, I am not speaking in accord with the Lord, but as in imprudence, in this assumption of boasting.
¹⁸ Since many are boasting according to the flesh, I also shall be boasting.
¹⁹ For with relish are you bearing with the imprudent, being prudent.
²⁰ For you are bearing with it if anyone is enslaving you, if anyone is devouring, if anyone is obtaining, if anyone is elevating himself, if anyone is lashing you in the face.
²¹ By way of dishonor am I saying this, as that we are weakened. Now in whatever anyone is daring (in imprudence am I saying it), I also am daring.
²² Hebrews are they? I also! Israelites are they? I also! The seed of Abraham are they? I also!
²³ Servants of Christ are they? (Being insane, I am speaking.) Above them am I! In weariness more exceedingly, in jails more exceedingly, in blows inordinatley, in deaths often.
²⁴ By Jews five times I got forty save one.
²⁵ Thrice am I flogged with rods, once am I stoned, thrice am I shipwrecked, a night and a day have I spent in a swamp,
²⁶ in journeys often, in dangers of rivers, in dangers of robbers, in dangers of my race, in dangers of the nations, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers in the sea, in dangers among false brethren;
²⁷ in toil and labor, in vigils often, in famine and thirst, in fasts often, in cold and nakedness;
²⁸ apart from what is outside, that which is coming upon me daily, the solicitude for all the ecclesias.
²⁹ Who is weak and I am not weak? Who is snared and I am not on fire?
³⁰ If I must boast, I will be boasting in that which is of my weakness.
³¹ The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, Who is blessed for the eons, is aware that I am not lying.
³² In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas, the king, garrisoned the city of the Damascenes, wanting to arrest me,
³³ and I am lowered in a wicker basket through a window through the wall, and escaped his hands.

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