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.
保羅與假使徒
1請你們多包涵，聽我說幾句愚妄話吧！我知道你們一定會包容我。 2我要求你們忠貞不渝，正如上帝要求祂的子民忠貞不渝一樣。因為我曾把你們當作貞潔的少女許配給一位丈夫——基督。 3但我真怕你們會像被狡猾的蛇欺騙的夏娃一樣，思想受迷惑，失去了對基督純真專一的心。 4有人來傳另一位耶穌——與我們所傳的不同，或要你們接受另一個靈——與你們所接受的不同，或要你們相信另一種福音——與你們所相信的不同，你們竟欣然容忍。 5我想，我一點也不比那些「超級使徒」差。 6我雖然不善辭令，但我認識真理。這一點，我在各樣的事上已經向你們證明了。
7我為了把福音白白地傳給你們，甘願卑微，以擢升你們，我這樣做有罪嗎？ 8我「搶奪」其他教會，拿了他們的資助，來服侍你們。 9我在你們那裡經濟拮据的時候，沒有拖累過你們任何人，因為馬其頓來的弟兄姊妹補足了我的缺乏。我沒有在任何方面成為你們的負擔，將來也不會成為你們的負擔。 10我憑我心中基督的真理說，亞該亞地區無人會阻止我這樣誇口。 11為什麼呢？難道我不愛你們嗎？上帝知道我愛你們！
12我現在所做的，將來還會繼續做下去，為了要斷絕那些投機分子的機會，使他們無法吹噓自己的職分與我們一樣。 13其實這些人是假使徒，為人詭詐，冒充基督的使徒。 14這不足為奇，因為連撒旦都裝成光明的天使， 15牠的爪牙若冒充公義的僕人，又何足為奇呢？他們最終必得到應得的報應。
保羅的諸多苦難
16我再說，誰也別把我當作傻瓜。如果你們真的當我是傻瓜，就把我當傻瓜看待吧！好讓我也能說幾句自誇的話。 17我這樣說，並不是主的意思，而是像一個傻瓜一樣誇口。 18既然許多人憑血氣誇口，我當然也可以誇口。 19因為你們這些聰明人竟然甘願忍受那些傻瓜， 20就算有人奴役、剝削、利用、侮辱你們，打你們耳光，你們都能逆來順受！ 21慚愧得很，我必須說，我們太軟弱了，做不出那樣的事！
然而，別人敢誇口的，讓我再講一句傻話，我也敢。 22他們是希伯來人，我也是。他們是以色列人，我也是。他們是亞伯拉罕的子孫，我也是。 23他們自稱是基督的僕人，我說句狂話，我更是！我比他們更辛苦，坐牢更多，身受更重的鞭打，經常出生入死。 24我被猶太同胞鞭打了五次，每次三十九鞭11·24 「三十九鞭」希臘文是「四十鞭減一鞭」。， 25被羅馬人用棍打了三次，被人用石頭打了一次，遇到船難三次，曾在大海上漂浮了一天一夜。 26我常常四處奔波，遭遇江河的危險、盜賊的威脅、同胞的威脅、外族的威脅，城中的危險，曠野的危險，海上的危險和假信徒的威脅。 27我勞碌困苦，不得安眠，又饑又渴，挨餓受凍，赤身露體。 28此外，我還掛慮眾教會的事，天天承受著壓力。 29有誰軟弱，我不感同身受呢？有誰失足犯罪，我不心急如焚呢？
30如果一定要誇耀，我情願誇耀自己的軟弱。 31主耶穌的父——永受稱頌的上帝知道我不撒謊。 32在大馬士革的時候，亞哩達王手下的總督吩咐人把守城門，要逮捕我。 33我只好藏在筐子裡，被人從城牆上的窗戶縋下去，才逃出了他的魔掌。
