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BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
I
hope
you
will
bear
with a little of my
foolishness
, but you
are
already
doing
that.
O
that
ye
were
bearing
with me
a little of the
folly
, but ye
also
do
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 zealous
for you with zeal
of
God,
for I did
betroth
you to one husband, a pure virgin ,
to present
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 .
and
I fear
, lest
, as the serpent
did
beguile
Eve
in
his
subtilty
, so
your minds may be corrupted
from the
simplicity
that
`is'
in
the
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 ,
indeed,
he
who
is
coming
doth
preach
another
Jesus whom
we did
not
preach
, or another
Spirit ye
receive
which
ye
did
not
receive
, or other
good
news
which
ye
did
not
accept
--
well
were
ye
bearing
`
it ',
I consider
myself
in
no
way
inferior
to
those
“super-
apostles .”
for
I reckon
that
I
have
been
nothing
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
.
and
even
if
unlearned
in
word
--
yet
not in knowledge ,
but
in
every
thing
we were
made manifest
in
all
things
to you.
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
?
The
sin did
I
do
--
myself humbling
that
ye
might
be
exalted
, because freely
the good
news
of God I
did
proclaim
to you?
I
robbed
other churches
by
accepting
their
support
in
order
to
serve
you.
other assemblies
I
did
rob,
having
taken
wages,
for
your
ministration;
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 being
present
with you ,
and having
been
in want
, I was chargeable
to no
one,
for my
lack
did
the brethren
supply
--
having
come
from Macedonia --
and
in
everything
burdenless
to you I
did
keep
myself
, and will keep
.
As
surely
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, because
this boasting shall
not be stopped
in regard
to
me
in
the regions of Achaia ;
Why
? Because I do not love you? God knows
I
do
!
wherefore
? because I do not love you? God hath
known
!
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 .
and
what I do
, I
also
will
do,
that
I
may
cut
off
the
occasion
of
those wishing
an occasion,
that
in that
which they boast they
may
be
found
according
as
we
also;
For such men
are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading
as
apostles of Christ .
for those
such `
are '
false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming
themselves
into
apostles of Christ ,
And no wonder ,
for Satan
himself masquerades
as
an
angel
of light .
and no wonder --
for even
the
Adversary
doth
transform
himself into
a
messenger
of light ;
It
is
not
surprising
, then, if his servants
masquerade
as servants
of righteousness .
Their
end will
correspond
to their actions
.
no
great
thing
, then, if also
his ministrants
do
transform
themselves
as ministrants
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.
Again
I say,
may
no one think
me to
be
a fool ;
and
if otherwise
, even
as a fool receive
me
, that I also
a little may
boast
.
In
this
confident
boasting
of
mine
, I am
not speaking
as
the Lord would
, but as a
fool.
That
which
I
speak
, I speak
not according
to
the Lord, but as in
foolishness,
in
this
the
confidence
of
boasting;
Since many are
boasting
according to the flesh, I too
will boast .
since many boast
according to the flesh, I also
will boast :
For you
gladly tolerate
fools ,
since
you
are
so
wise .
for gladly do
ye
bear
with
the
fools --
being
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
bear
, if
any
one
is
bringing
you under
bondage,
if
any
one
doth
devour,
if
any
one
doth
take
away,
if
any
one
doth
exalt
himself ,
if
any
one
on
the face doth
smite
you;
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
.
in
reference
to dishonour
I speak,
how
that we were weak, and
in
whatever
any
one
is
bold
--
in
foolishness
I say
`it'
--
I
also
am
bold
.
Are they Hebrews
? So
am
I .
Are they Israelites
? So
am
I .
Are
they
descendants
of Abraham? So
am
I .
Hebrews
are they? I also!
Israelites
are they? I also!
seed
of Abraham are
they
? I also!
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.
ministrants
of Christ are
they
? --
as
beside
myself
I speak
--
I more ;
in labours
more
abundantly
, in stripes
above
measure
, in prisons
more
frequently
, in deaths
many
times;
Five
times
I
received
from the
Jews the
forty lashes
minus
one .
from Jews five
times
forty `stripes'
save
one I
did
receive;
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
was I shipwrecked,
a night and a day in the deep
I
have
passed;
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,
journeyings
many
times
, perils
of
rivers, perils
of
robbers,
perils
from kindred,
perils
from nations
, perils
in city ,
perils
in wilderness
, perils
in sea ,
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 laboriousness
and painfulness
, in watchings
many
times,
in
hunger and thirst, in fastings
many
times,
in
cold and nakedness;
Apart from these
external
trials,
I
face
daily the pressure
of my
concern
for
all the churches
.
apart from the
things
without
--
the
crowding
upon
me
that
is
daily --
the care
of all the assemblies
.
Who is weak
, and I am not weak
? Who is led
into
sin
, and I do
not burn
with
grief?
Who is infirm
, and I am not infirm
? who is stumbled
, and I am
not fired;
If I
must
boast, I
will
boast
of the things that
show
my weakness.
if to
boast it
behoveth
`me'
, of the things of
my infirmity
I
will
boast;
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
--
who is blessed
to
the
ages
--
hath
known
that I do
not lie!
--
In Damascus ,
the governor
under
King
Aretas secured
the city of the Damascenes in
order
to arrest
me .
In Damascus the ethnarch
of
Aretas the king
was
watching
the
city of the Damascenes ,
wishing
to seize
me ,
But
I
was
lowered
in
a
basket
through a window in the wall and escaped
his grasp
.
and
through a window in a
rope
basket
I
was
let
down,
through
the wall ,
and fled
out
of
his hands
.
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