2 Corinthians 11
1 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
I wish you were bearing with me little (a *no) (of foolishness; *N+kO) but indeed you do endure me.
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.
I am jealous as to for you of God with [the] jealousy; I have betrothed for you to one husband a virgin pure to present to Christ,
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.
I am afraid however lest perhaps as the serpent deceived Eve in the craftiness of him, (thus *k) may be corrupted the minds of you from the simplicity (and the purity *NO) in Christ.
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.
If indeed for the [one] coming another Jesus proclaims whom not we did proclaim, or a spirit different you receive which not you did receive, or glad tidings different which not you did accept, well (you are enduring [it]. *N+k+o)
5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
I reckon for in nothing to have been inferior to those most eminent most eminent apostles.
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.
If however even unpolished in speech [I am], yet not in knowledge, but in every [way] (were manifested *N+kO) in all things to you.
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?
Or a sin did I commit myself humbling so that you yourselves may be exalted, because freely the of God gospel I evangelised to you?
8 I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
Other churches I robbed having received support for the toward you service,
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.
And being present with you and having been in need not I did burden no [one]; for the need of mine completely filled up the brothers having come from Macedonia, and in everything unburdensome myself to you I kept and will keep.
10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
Is [the] truth of Christ in me myself that boasting this not (will be stopped *N+kO) of mine in the regions of Achaia.
11 Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.
Because of why? Because surely I do love you? God knows [I do]!
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.
What however I do, also I will do, so that I may cut off the opportunity of those desiring an opportunity that in what they are boasting, they may be found even as also we ourselves.
13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
For such [are] false apostles, workers deceitful, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ;
14 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
And no (wonder; *N+kO) himself for Satan masquerades as an angel of light;
15 It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
[It is] not surprising therefore if even the servants of him masquerade as servants of righteousness whose end will be according to the deeds of them.
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.
Again I say, no one me may think a fool to be; lest then except indeed even even as a fool do receive me, that I myself also I myself also little a may boast.
17 That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
What I am saying, not according to [the] Lord am I saying but as in foolishness, in this the confidence of boasting.
18 Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
Since many boast according to (the *ko) flesh, I myself also I myself also will boast.
19 For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
Gladly for you bear with fools, wise being!
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.
You bear [it] for if anyone you enslaves, if anyone devours [you], if anyone takes [from you], if anyone exalts himself, if anyone in [the] face you strikes.
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.
As to dishonor I speak, as that we ourselves (have been weak! *N+kO) In whatever however maybe anyone may be daring — in foolishness I speak — am daring I myself also. I myself also.
22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I.
Hebrews are they? I myself also; I myself also; Israelites are they? I myself also; I myself also; Descendants of Abraham are they? I myself also; I myself also;
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.
Servants of Christ are they? As being beside myself I speak; above [measure] I myself[am]. in labors more abundantly in imprisonments more abundantly, in beatings above measure, in deaths often.
24 Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.
From [the] Jews five times forty [lashes] minus one I received,
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.
Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day in the deep [sea] I have passed;
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;
in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from [my own] race, in perils from [the] Gentiles, in perils in [the] city, in perils in [the] wilderness, in perils on [the] sea, in perils among false brothers,
27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
(in *k) labor and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness;
28 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.
Besides the [things] external the (stoppage on me *N+kO) on every day [is my] care for all the churches.
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?
Who is weak, and not I am weak? Who is led into sin, and surely I myself do burn inwardly?
30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
If to boast it behooves [me], [in] the [things] of the weakness of mine I will boast.
31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie. (aiōn g165)
The God and Father of the Lord (of us *k) Jesus (Christ *K) knows, who is being blessed to the ages, that not I am lying. (aiōn g165)
32 In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city, desiring to arrest me.
In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king was guarding the city of the Damascenes to seize me (wishing *KO)
33 I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and escaped his hands.
But through a window in a basket I was let down through the wall and I escaped the hands of him.
