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Berean Standard Bible
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I
hope
you
will
bear with a little of
my foolishness,
but
you
are
already
doing
that
.
Would
to
God
ye
could
bear with me
a little in
my folly:
and
indeed
bear
with
me
.
I am jealous for
you with a
godly jealousy .
For I promised
you to one husband, to
present you as a pure
virgin to Christ.
For
I am jealous over
you with godly jealousy :
for I have
espoused
you to one husband, that
I
may
present you as a chaste
virgin to Christ.
I am
afraid
, however
, that
just
as Eve
was
deceived
by
the serpent’s
cunning
, your minds may
be led
astray
from your
simple
and
pure
devotion
to
Christ.
But
I fear
, lest
by
any
means
, as the serpent
beguiled
Eve
through
his
subtilty
, so
your minds should
be corrupted
from the
simplicity
that
is
in
Christ.
For if someone
comes
and
proclaims
a
Jesus other
than
the
One
we proclaimed
, or if you
receive a
different
spirit than
the
One
you
received, or a
different
gospel than
the
one
you
accepted, you
put
up
with it
way
too
easily
.
For if he
that
cometh
preacheth
another
Jesus ,
whom
we have
not
preached
, or if ye
receive another
spirit ,
which
ye
have
not
received, or another
gospel ,
which
ye
have
not
accepted, ye
might
well
bear
with him
.
I consider
myself
in
no
way
inferior
to
those
“super-
apostles. ”
For
I suppose
I
was
not
a
whit
behind
the
very
chiefest
apostles.
Although
I am
not
a
polished
speaker
, I
am
certainly
not lacking
in knowledge .
We have made this
clear
to
you in every
way
possible
.
But
though
I be
rude
in
speech
, yet
not in knowledge ;
but
we have been
throughly
made manifest
among
you in all
things
.
Was
it
a
sin
for
me
to
humble
myself
in order
to
exalt
you
, because I preached the gospel of God to
you
free
of
charge
?
Have
I
committed
an
offence
in abasing
myself
that
ye
might
be
exalted
, because I have
preached to
you
the gospel of God freely
?
I robbed other churches by
accepting
their
support
in
order
to serve
you.
I robbed other churches ,
taking
wages
of
them,
to do
you service
.
And when I was with you and in
need
, I was not
a
burden
to anyone;
for the brothers
who
came from Macedonia supplied my
needs.
I have refrained
from being a
burden
to
you in
any
way
, and I
will
continue
to
do
so.
And when I was present
with you ,
and wanted
, I was chargeable
to no
man:
for that
which
was
lacking
to
me
the brethren
which
came from Macedonia supplied :
and
in
all
things
I have kept
myself
from being burdensome
unto
you, and so will
I
keep
myself
.
As surely
as
the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of
mine
will
not
be
silenced
in the regions of Achaia.
As the truth of Christ is in me, no
man
shall
stop
me
of
this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
Why
? Because I do
not
love you? God knows
I
do!
Wherefore
? because I love you not
? God knoweth.
But I will keep
on
doing
what
I am
doing
, in
order
to
undercut
those
who
want
an
opportunity
to
be regarded
as our
equals
in
the
things
of
which
they
boast
.
But what
I do,
that
I
will do,
that
I may
cut
off
occasion
from
them
which
desire
occasion;
that
wherein
they
glory
, they
may
be found
even
as we
.
For such men
are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading
as
apostles of Christ.
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming
themselves
into
the
apostles of Christ.
And no wonder,
for Satan himself masquerades
as
an angel of light.
And no marvel;
for Satan himself is
transformed
into
an angel of light.
It is not
surprising,
then,
if his servants
masquerade
as servants
of righteousness .
Their
end will
correspond
to their actions
.
Therefore
it is no
great
thing
if his ministers
also
be
transformed
as the
ministers
of righteousness ;
whose
end shall
be
according
to their works
.
I repeat:
Let no one
take
me for
a fool .
But
if you
do
, then
receive
me
as a fool, so
that I too
may boast a little.
I say
again,
Let no man
think
me a fool ;
if otherwise
, yet
as a fool receive
me
, that I may boast myself
a little.
In
this
confident
boasting
of
mine
, I am
not speaking
as
the Lord would
, but as a
fool
.
That
which
I
speak
, I speak
it
not after
the Lord, but as it
were
foolishly,
in
this
confidence
of
boasting
.
Since
many are
boasting
according
to
the flesh, I too
will boast
.
Seeing
that
many glory
after
the flesh, I will glory
also
.
For you
gladly
tolerate
fools, since
you
are so
wise.
For ye
suffer
fools gladly
, seeing
ye
yourselves
are wise.
In
fact
, you
even
put
up
with
anyone
who
enslaves
you or
exploits
you or
takes
advantage
of you or
exalts
himself or
strikes
you in
the face.
For
ye
suffer
, if
a
man
bring
you into
bondage,
if
a
man
devour
you ,
if
a
man
take
of you ,
if
a
man
exalt
himself ,
if
a
man
smite
you on
the face.
To
my
shame
I concede
that
we were
too
weak for
that!
Speaking
as
a
fool
, however
, I can
match
what
anyone
else
dares
to
boast
about
.
I speak
as
concerning
reproach,
as
though
we had
been
weak .
Howbeit
whereinsoever
any
is
bold
, (I
speak
foolishly
, )
I am
bold
also
.
Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants
of Abraham? So am I.
Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the
seed
of Abraham? so am I.
Are they servants
of Christ? I
am
speaking
like
I am
out
of
my
mind,
but
I am so
much
more :
in
harder
labor,
in more imprisonments
, in worse
beatings
, in frequent danger
of
death
.
Are they ministers
of Christ? (
I speak
as
a
fool)
I am more ;
in labours
more abundant
, in stripes
above
measure
, in prisons
more
frequent ,
in
deaths
oft
.
Five times I
received from
the
Jews
the
forty lashes
minus
one.
Of
the
Jews
five times received I
forty stripes
save
one.
Three
times
I
was beaten with rods, once I
was stoned, three
times
I
was
shipwrecked.
I spent
a night and a day in the open
sea.
Thrice
was I
beaten with rods, once was I
stoned, thrice
I suffered
shipwreck,
a night and a day I
have
been
in the deep;
In my
frequent
journeys
, I
have
been
in danger
from
rivers
and
from
bandits
, in danger
from
my
countrymen and
from
the Gentiles
, in danger
in the city and
in the country
, in danger
on
the sea and
among false brothers,
In journeyings
often
, in perils
of
waters
, in perils
of
robbers,
in
perils
by
mine
own
countrymen ,
in
perils
by
the heathen
, in perils
in the city ,
in perils
in
the wilderness
, in perils
in
the sea ,
in
perils
among false brethren;
in labor
and
toil
and often without
sleep
, in hunger and thirst and
often without
food
, in cold and exposure
.
In weariness
and painfulness,
in
watchings
often, in hunger and thirst ,
in
fastings
often, in cold and nakedness
.
Apart
from
these
external
trials
, I
face
daily the pressure
of my
concern
for
all the churches.
Beside
those
things
that
are
without
, that
which
cometh
upon
me
daily ,
the care
of all the churches.
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led
into
sin
, and I do
not
burn with
grief
?
Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended
, and I burn not
?
If I must boast
, I will boast
of the things that
show
my
weakness
.
If I must needs
glory
, I will glory
of the things which
concern
mine
infirmities
.
The God and Father of the
Lord Jesus, who
is forever
worthy
of
praise
, knows
that I am
not lying
.
The God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ
, which
is blessed
for
evermore
, knoweth
that I lie
not.
In Damascus ,
the governor under King
Aretas secured
the city of the Damascenes in
order
to arrest
me .
In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king
kept
the
city of the Damascenes with
a
garrison,
desirous
to apprehend
me :
But
I
was
lowered
in
a
basket
through a window in the wall and escaped his grasp
.
And
through a window in a
basket
was
I
let
down
by
the wall ,
and escaped his hands
.
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