2 Corinthians 11
1 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
yūyaṁ mamājñānatāṁ kṣaṇaṁ yāvat soḍhum arhatha, ataḥ sā yuṣmābhiḥ sahyatāṁ|
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.
īśvare mamāsaktatvād ahaṁ yuṣmānadhi tape yasmāt satīṁ kanyāmiva yuṣmān ekasmin vare'rthataḥ khrīṣṭe samarpayitum ahaṁ vāgdānam akārṣaṁ|
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 sarpeṇa svakhalatayā yadvad havā vañcayāñcake tadvat khrīṣṭaṁ prati satītvād yuṣmākaṁ bhraṁśaḥ sambhaviṣyatīti 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.
asmābhiranākhyāpito'paraḥ kaścid yīśu ryadi kenacid āgantukenākhyāpyate yuṣmābhiḥ prāgalabdha ātmā vā yadi labhyate prāgagṛhītaḥ susaṁvādo vā yadi gṛhyate tarhi manye yūyaṁ samyak sahiṣyadhve|
5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
kintu mukhyebhyaḥ preritebhyo'haṁ kenacit prakāreṇa nyūno nāsmīti 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 vākpaṭutāyā nyūnatve satyapi jñānasya nyūnatvaṁ nāsti kintu sarvvaviṣaye vayaṁ yuṣmadgocare prakāśāmahe|
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?
yuṣmākam unnatyai mayā namratāṁ svīkṛtyeśvarasya susaṁvādo vinā vetanaṁ yuṣmākaṁ madhye yad aghoṣyata tena mayā kiṁ pāpam akāri?
8 I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
yuṣmākaṁ sevanāyāham anyasamitibhyo bhṛti gṛhlan dhanamapahṛtavān,
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.
yadā ca yuṣmanmadhye'va'rtte tadā mamārthābhāve jāte yuṣmākaṁ ko'pi mayā na pīḍitaḥ; yato mama so'rthābhāvo mākidaniyādeśād āgatai bhrātṛbhi nyavāryyata, itthamahaṁ kkāpi viṣaye yathā yuṣmāsu bhāro na bhavāmi tathā mayātmarakṣā kṛtā karttavyā ca|
10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
khrīṣṭasya satyatā yadi mayi tiṣṭhati tarhi mamaiṣā ślāghā nikhilākhāyādeśe kenāpi na rotsyate|
11 Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.
etasya kāraṇaṁ kiṁ? yuṣmāsu mama prema nāstyetat kiṁ tatkāraṇaṁ? tad īśvaro 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 chidramanviṣyanti te yat kimapi chidraṁ na labhante tadarthameva tat karmma mayā kriyate kāriṣyate ca tasmāt te yena ślāghante tenāsmākaṁ samānā bhaviṣyanti|
13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
tādṛśā bhāktapreritāḥ pravañcakāḥ kāravo bhūtvā khrīṣṭasya preritānāṁ veśaṁ dhārayanti|
14 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
taccāścaryyaṁ nahi; yataḥ svayaṁ śayatānapi tejasvidūtasya veśaṁ dhārayati,
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 paricārakā api dharmmaparicārakāṇāṁ veśaṁ dhārayantītyadbhutaṁ nahi; kintu teṣāṁ karmmāṇi yādṛśāni phalānyapi tādṛśāni bhaviṣyanti|
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.
ahaṁ puna rvadāmi ko'pi māṁ nirbbodhaṁ na manyatāṁ kiñca yadyapi nirbbodho bhaveyaṁ tathāpi yūyaṁ nirbbodhamiva māmanugṛhya kṣaṇaikaṁ yāvat mamātmaślāghām anujānīta|
17 That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
etasyāḥ ślāghāyā nimittaṁ mayā yat kathitavyaṁ tat prabhunādiṣṭeneva kathyate tannahi kintu nirbbodheneva|
18 Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
apare bahavaḥ śārīrikaślāghāṁ kurvvate tasmād ahamapi ślāghiṣye|
19 For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
buddhimanto yūyaṁ sukhena nirbbodhānām ācāraṁ 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 yuṣmān dāsān karoti yadi vā yuṣmākaṁ sarvvasvaṁ grasati yadi vā yuṣmān harati yadi vātmābhimānī bhavati yadi vā yuṣmākaṁ kapolam āhanti tarhi tadapi yūyaṁ 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.
daurbbalyād yuṣmābhiravamānitā iva vayaṁ bhāṣāmahe, kintvaparasya kasyacid yena pragalbhatā jāyate tena mamāpi pragalbhatā jāyata iti nirbbodheneva mayā vaktavyaṁ|
22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I.
te kim ibrilokāḥ? ahamapībrī| te kim isrāyelīyāḥ? ahamapīsrāyelīyaḥ| te kim ibrāhīmo vaṁśāḥ? ahamapībrāhīmo vaṁśaḥ|
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 kiṁ khrīṣṭasya paricārakāḥ? ahaṁ tebhyo'pi tasya mahāparicārakaḥ; kintu nirbbodha iva bhāṣe, tebhyo'pyahaṁ bahupariśrame bahuprahāre bahuvāraṁ kārāyāṁ bahuvāraṁ prāṇanāśasaṁśaye ca patitavān|
24 Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.
yihūdīyairahaṁ pañcakṛtva ūnacatvāriṁśatprahārairāhatastrirvetrāghātam ekakṛtvaḥ prastarāghātañca praptavān|
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.
vāratrayaṁ potabhañjanena kliṣṭo'ham agādhasalile dinamekaṁ rātrimekāñca yāpitavān|
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;
bahuvāraṁ yātrābhi rnadīnāṁ saṅkaṭai rdasyūnāṁ saṅkaṭaiḥ svajātīyānāṁ saṅkaṭai rbhinnajātīyānāṁ saṅkaṭai rnagarasya saṅkaṭai rmarubhūmeḥ saṅkaṭai sāgarasya saṅkaṭai rbhāktabhrātṛṇāṁ saṅkaṭaiśca
27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
pariśramakleśābhyāṁ vāraṁ vāraṁ jāgaraṇena kṣudhātṛṣṇābhyāṁ bahuvāraṁ nirāhāreṇa śītanagnatābhyāñcāhaṁ kālaṁ yāpitavān|
28 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.
tādṛśaṁ naimittikaṁ duḥkhaṁ vināhaṁ pratidinam ākulo bhavāmi sarvvāsāṁ samitīnāṁ cintā ca mayi varttate|
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?
yenāhaṁ na durbbalībhavāmi tādṛśaṁ daurbbalyaṁ kaḥ pāpnoti?
30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
yadi mayā ślāghitavyaṁ tarhi svadurbbalatāmadhi ślāghiṣye|
31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie. (aiōn g165)
mayā mṛṣāvākyaṁ na kathyata iti nityaṁ praśaṁsanīyo'smākaṁ prabho ryīśukhrīṣṭasya tāta īśvaro jānāti| (aiōn g165)
32 In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city, desiring to arrest me.
dammeṣakanagare'ritārājasya kāryyādhyakṣo māṁ dharttum icchan yadā sainyaistad dammeṣakanagaram arakṣayat
33 I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and escaped his hands.
tadāhaṁ lokaiḥ piṭakamadhye prācīragavākṣeṇāvarohitastasya karāt trāṇaṁ prāpaṁ|
