2 Corinthians 11
1 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
yUyaM mamAjnjAnatAM kSaNaM yAvat sOPhum arhatha, ataH sA yuSmAbhiH sahyatAM|
2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you in marriage to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
IzvarE mamAsaktatvAd ahaM yuSmAnadhi tapE yasmAt satIM kanyAmiva yuSmAn Ekasmin varE'rthataH khrISTE samarpayitum ahaM vAgdAnam akArSaM|
3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
kintu sarpENa svakhalatayA yadvad havA vanjcayAnjcakE tadvat khrISTaM prati satItvAd yuSmAkaM bhraMzaH sambhaviSyatIti bibhEmi|
4 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news” which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough.
asmAbhiranAkhyApitO'paraH kazcid yIzu ryadi kEnacid AgantukEnAkhyApyatE yuSmAbhiH prAgalabdha AtmA vA yadi labhyatE prAgagRhItaH susaMvAdO vA yadi gRhyatE tarhi manyE yUyaM samyak sahiSyadhvE|
5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
kintu mukhyEbhyaH prEritEbhyO'haM kEnacit prakArENa nyUnO nAsmIti budhyE|
6 But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.
mama vAkpaTutAyA nyUnatvE satyapi jnjAnasya nyUnatvaM nAsti kintu sarvvaviSayE vayaM yuSmadgOcarE prakAzAmahE|
7 Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?
yuSmAkam unnatyai mayA namratAM svIkRtyEzvarasya susaMvAdO vinA vEtanaM yuSmAkaM madhyE yad aghOSyata tEna mayA kiM pApam akAri?
8 I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
yuSmAkaM sEvanAyAham anyasamitibhyO bhRti gRhlan dhanamapahRtavAn,
9 When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
yadA ca yuSmanmadhyE'va'rttE tadA mamArthAbhAvE jAtE yuSmAkaM kO'pi mayA na pIPitaH; yatO mama sO'rthAbhAvO mAkidaniyAdEzAd Agatai bhrAtRbhi nyavAryyata, itthamahaM kkApi viSayE yathA yuSmAsu bhArO na bhavAmi tathA mayAtmarakSA kRtA karttavyA ca|
10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
khrISTasya satyatA yadi mayi tiSThati tarhi mamaiSA zlAghA nikhilAkhAyAdEzE kEnApi na rOtsyatE|
11 Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.
Etasya kAraNaM kiM? yuSmAsu mama prEma nAstyEtat kiM tatkAraNaM? tad IzvarO vEtti|
12 But what I do, that I will continue to do, that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity, that in which they boast, they may be recognized just like us.
yE chidramanviSyanti tE yat kimapi chidraM na labhantE tadarthamEva tat karmma mayA kriyatE kAriSyatE ca tasmAt tE yEna zlAghantE tEnAsmAkaM samAnA bhaviSyanti|
13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
tAdRzA bhAktaprEritAH pravanjcakAH kAravO bhUtvA khrISTasya prEritAnAM vEzaM dhArayanti|
14 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
taccAzcaryyaM nahi; yataH svayaM zayatAnapi tEjasvidUtasya vEzaM dhArayati,
15 It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
tatastasya paricArakA api dharmmaparicArakANAM vEzaM dhArayantItyadbhutaM nahi; kintu tESAM karmmANi yAdRzAni phalAnyapi tAdRzAni bhaviSyanti|
16 I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
ahaM puna rvadAmi kO'pi mAM nirbbOdhaM na manyatAM kinjca yadyapi nirbbOdhO bhavEyaM tathApi yUyaM nirbbOdhamiva mAmanugRhya kSaNaikaM yAvat mamAtmazlAghAm anujAnIta|
17 That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
EtasyAH zlAghAyA nimittaM mayA yat kathitavyaM tat prabhunAdiSTEnEva kathyatE tannahi kintu nirbbOdhEnEva|
18 Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
aparE bahavaH zArIrikazlAghAM kurvvatE tasmAd ahamapi zlAghiSyE|
19 For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
buddhimantO yUyaM sukhEna nirbbOdhAnAm AcAraM sahadhvE|
20 For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.
kO'pi yadi yuSmAn dAsAn karOti yadi vA yuSmAkaM sarvvasvaM grasati yadi vA yuSmAn harati yadi vAtmAbhimAnI bhavati yadi vA yuSmAkaM kapOlam Ahanti tarhi tadapi yUyaM sahadhvE|
21 To my shame, I speak as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
daurbbalyAd yuSmAbhiravamAnitA iva vayaM bhASAmahE, kintvaparasya kasyacid yEna pragalbhatA jAyatE tEna mamApi pragalbhatA jAyata iti nirbbOdhEnEva mayA vaktavyaM|
22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I.
tE kim ibrilOkAH? ahamapIbrI| tE kim isrAyElIyAH? ahamapIsrAyElIyaH| tE kim ibrAhImO vaMzAH? ahamapIbrAhImO vaMzaH|
23 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.
tE kiM khrISTasya paricArakAH? ahaM tEbhyO'pi tasya mahAparicArakaH; kintu nirbbOdha iva bhASE, tEbhyO'pyahaM bahuparizramE bahuprahArE bahuvAraM kArAyAM bahuvAraM prANanAzasaMzayE ca patitavAn|
24 Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.
yihUdIyairahaM panjcakRtva UnacatvAriMzatprahArairAhatastrirvEtrAghAtam EkakRtvaH prastarAghAtanjca praptavAn|
25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.
vAratrayaM pOtabhanjjanEna kliSTO'ham agAdhasalilE dinamEkaM rAtrimEkAnjca yApitavAn|
26 I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;
bahuvAraM yAtrAbhi rnadInAM sagkaTai rdasyUnAM sagkaTaiH svajAtIyAnAM sagkaTai rbhinnajAtIyAnAM sagkaTai rnagarasya sagkaTai rmarubhUmEH sagkaTai sAgarasya sagkaTai rbhAktabhrAtRNAM sagkaTaizca
27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
parizramaklEzAbhyAM vAraM vAraM jAgaraNEna kSudhAtRSNAbhyAM bahuvAraM nirAhArENa zItanagnatAbhyAnjcAhaM kAlaM yApitavAn|
28 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.
tAdRzaM naimittikaM duHkhaM vinAhaM pratidinam AkulO bhavAmi sarvvAsAM samitInAM cintA ca mayi varttatE|
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?
yEnAhaM na durbbalIbhavAmi tAdRzaM daurbbalyaM kaH pApnOti?
30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
yadi mayA zlAghitavyaM tarhi svadurbbalatAmadhi zlAghiSyE|
31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie. (aiōn g165)
mayA mRSAvAkyaM na kathyata iti nityaM prazaMsanIyO'smAkaM prabhO ryIzukhrISTasya tAta IzvarO jAnAti| (aiōn g165)
32 In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city, desiring to arrest me.
dammESakanagarE'ritArAjasya kAryyAdhyakSO mAM dharttum icchan yadA sainyaistad dammESakanagaram arakSayat
33 I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and escaped his hands.
tadAhaM lOkaiH piTakamadhyE prAcIragavAkSENAvarOhitastasya karAt trANaM prApaM|
