保罗与假使徒
1请你们多包涵，听我说几句愚妄话吧！我知道你们一定会包容我。 2我要求你们忠贞不渝，正如上帝要求祂的子民忠贞不渝一样。因为我曾把你们当作贞洁的少女许配给一位丈夫——基督。 3但我真怕你们会像被狡猾的蛇欺骗的夏娃一样，思想受迷惑，失去了对基督纯真专一的心。 4有人来传另一位耶稣——与我们所传的不同，或要你们接受另一个灵——与你们所接受的不同，或要你们相信另一种福音——与你们所相信的不同，你们竟欣然容忍。 5我想，我一点也不比那些“超级使徒”差。 6我虽然不善辞令，但我认识真理。这一点，我在各样的事上已经向你们证明了。
7我为了把福音白白地传给你们，甘愿卑微，以擢升你们，我这样做有罪吗？ 8我“抢夺”其他教会，拿了他们的资助，来服侍你们。 9我在你们那里经济拮据的时候，没有拖累过你们任何人，因为马其顿来的弟兄姊妹补足了我的缺乏。我没有在任何方面成为你们的负担，将来也不会成为你们的负担。 10我凭我心中基督的真理说，亚该亚地区无人会阻止我这样夸口。 11为什么呢？难道我不爱你们吗？上帝知道我爱你们！
12我现在所做的，将来还会继续做下去，为了要断绝那些投机分子的机会，使他们无法吹嘘自己的职分与我们一样。 13其实这些人是假使徒，为人诡诈，冒充基督的使徒。 14这不足为奇，因为连撒旦都装成光明的天使， 15它的爪牙若冒充公义的仆人，又何足为奇呢？他们最终必得到应得的报应。
保罗的诸多苦难
16我再说，谁也别把我当作傻瓜。如果你们真的当我是傻瓜，就把我当傻瓜看待吧！好让我也能说几句自夸的话。 17我这样说，并不是主的意思，而是像一个傻瓜一样夸口。 18既然许多人凭血气夸口，我当然也可以夸口。 19因为你们这些聪明人竟然甘愿忍受那些傻瓜， 20就算有人奴役、剥削、利用、侮辱你们，打你们耳光，你们都能逆来顺受！ 21惭愧得很，我必须说，我们太软弱了，做不出那样的事！
然而，别人敢夸口的，让我再讲一句傻话，我也敢。 22他们是希伯来人，我也是。他们是以色列人，我也是。他们是亚伯拉罕的子孙，我也是。 23他们自称是基督的仆人，我说句狂话，我更是！我比他们更辛苦，坐牢更多，身受更重的鞭打，经常出生入死。 24我被犹太同胞鞭打了五次，每次三十九鞭11:24 “三十九鞭”希腊文是“四十鞭减一鞭”。， 25被罗马人用棍打了三次，被人用石头打了一次，遇到船难三次，曾在大海上漂浮了一天一夜。 26我常常四处奔波，遭遇江河的危险、盗贼的威胁、同胞的威胁、外族的威胁，城中的危险，旷野的危险，海上的危险和假信徒的威胁。 27我劳碌困苦，不得安眠，又饥又渴，挨饿受冻，赤身露体。 28此外，我还挂虑众教会的事，天天承受着压力。 29有谁软弱，我不感同身受呢？有谁失足犯罪，我不心急如焚呢？
30如果一定要夸耀，我情愿夸耀自己的软弱。 31主耶稣的父——永受称颂的上帝知道我不撒谎。 32在大马士革的时候，亚哩达王手下的总督吩咐人把守城门，要逮捕我。 33我只好藏在筐子里，被人从城墙上的窗户缒下去，才逃出了他的魔掌。
1Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. 2For 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. 3But 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. 4For 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. 5For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. 6But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things. 7Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? 8I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service. 9And 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. 10As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. 11Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. 12But 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. 13For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 15Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
16I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. 17That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. 18Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. 19For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. 20For 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. 21I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also. 22Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. 23Are 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. 24Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. 25Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; 26In 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; 27In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. 28Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. 29Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? 30If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities. 31The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. 32In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: 33And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
