W ould to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
2 For 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.
3 But 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.
4 For 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.
5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.
9 And 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.
10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
12 But 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.
13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
20 For 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.
21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
23 Are 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.
24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
26 In 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;
27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
1 Mepɛ sɛ mo ne me te nkwasea kakra mu: ampa, mo ne me tenaeɛ. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
2 Efisɛ mewɔ ninkuntwee Onyankopɔn mu ma mo: efisɛ mapaw mo ama okunu baako, sɛnea mede mo bɛka Kristo anim sɛ ɔbaabun a ɔte ne ho mu. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
3 Nanso misuro sɛ anyɛ a wɔbɛdaadaa mo adwene afiri Kristo mu tenenee mu, sɛnea ɔwɔ no daadaa Hawa ɛnam n'anyansa so. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
4 Efisɛ sɛ deɛ ɔreba no ka Yesu foforɔ bi a yɛnkaa ne ho asɛm, anaa mugye honhom foforɔ a moannya, anaa asɛmpa foforɔ a moannya a, anka morebɛte no yiye. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
5 Efisɛ mesusu sɛ mentrawee asomafoɔ apapapafoɔ no akyi koraa. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
6 Na sɛ ɛyɛ sɛ meyɛ ɔsrɛni wɔ kasa mu nso a, nanso ɛnyɛ wɔ nimdeɛ mu; na yɛada yɛn ho adi pefee mu mo mu wɔ biribiara mu. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
7 Mayɛ bɔne sɛ mebrɛ me ho ase sɛnea mobɛma mo so, efisɛ mekaa Onyankopɔn asɛmpa kyerɛɛ mo kwa? Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
8 Mesisii asɔrekuw ahodoɔ foforɔ, migyee akatua firii wɔn hɔ, de som mo. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
9 Na bere a mewɔ mo hɔ, na mehia no, mannya obiara ho adesoa: efisɛ mo hia no, anuanom a wɔfiri Makedonia baeɛ no, wɔmaa me: na wɔ biribiara mu no, maka me ho so firi mo ho adesoa ho, na mɛkɔ so aka me ho so saa ara. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
10 Sɛnea Kristo nokorɛ wɔ me mu no, obiara rensi me kwan wɔ saa ahohoahoa yi mu wɔ Akaia amantam no mu. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
11 Adɛn enti? Esiane sɛ menndɔ mo anaa? Onyankopɔn nim. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
12 Nanso deɛ meyɛ no, saa ara na mɛyɛ, sɛnea mɛtwa wɔn a wɔhwehwɛ kwan no kwan no; sɛnea deɛ wɔhoahoa wɔn ho wɔ mu no, wɔbɛda adi sɛ wɔte sɛ yɛn. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
13 Efisɛ saafoɔ yɛ atoro asomafoɔ, nnaadaafoɔ, a wɔdane wɔn ho yɛ Kristo asomafoɔ. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
14 Na ɛnyɛ nwonwa; efisɛ Satan ankasa dane ne ho sɛ hann abɔfoɔ. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
15 Enti ɛnyɛ ade kɛse sɛ n'asomfoɔ nso dane wɔn ho sɛ atenenee asomfoɔ; wɔn awieiɛ bɛyɛ sɛnea wɔn nnwuma teɛ. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
16 Meka bio, Mmma obi nsusu sɛ meyɛ ɔkwasea; na sɛ wosusu saa nso a, monyɛ me sɛ ɔkwasea ara nso, sɛnea me nso mehoahoa me ho kakra. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
17 Nea meka no, menka no sɛnea Awurade pɛ, na mmom sɛnea ɔkwasea kasa, wɔ saa ahohoahoa ahotoso mu. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
18 Esiane sɛ nnipa pii hoahoa wɔn ho wɔ honam fam enti, me nso mɛhoahoa me ho. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
19 Efisɛ, esiane sɛ moyɛ nyansafoɔ enti, mofa nkwaseafoɔ ho tom ɛfa anibere mu. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
20 Efisɛ mofa ho tom, sɛ obi yɛ mo nkoa, sɛ obi rewe mo, sɛ obi gye biribi fi mo, sɛ obi ma ne ho so, sɛ obi bɔ mo anim. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
21 Meka yi sɛ animtiaabu, sɛ ɛyɛɛ yɛn nea yɛyɛ mmerɛyɛfoɔ ara. Nanso nea obi wɔ akokoduru mu, (meka sɛ ɔkwasea,) me nso mewɔ akokoduru mu. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
22 Wɔyɛ Hebrifoɔ anaa? Me nso. Wɔyɛ Israelfoɔ anaa? Me nso. Wɔyɛ Abraham aseniBa anaa? Me nso. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
23 Wɔyɛ Kristo asomfoɔ anaa? (Meka sɛ ɔkwasea) Me deɛ, meyɛ kyɛn; adwuma mu mabrɛ kyɛn wɔn, wɔabɔ me mmaa pii boro so, m'akɔ afiase mpɛn pii, mewu mpɛn pii. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
24 Yudafoɔ hɔ, mpɛn anum na wɔbɔɔ me mmaa aduanan, a baako akaa akyi. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
25 Mpɛn mmiɛnsa na wɔde abaa hwee me, pɛnkorɔ na wɔsii me abo, mpɛn mmiɛnsa na ɛpo bɔɔ me hyɛn, anadwo ne awia baako na meda po mu; Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
26 Mmere pii akwantu mu, ɛpo mu asiane mu, akorɔmfoɔ ho asiane mu, me ne man mma ho asiane mu, amanaman ho asiane mu, kuro mu asiane mu, ɛserɛ so asiane mu, ɛpo so asiane mu, atoro anuanom mu asiane mu; Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
27 Wɔ brɛ ne ɔyaw mu, wɔ anadwo-hwɛ pii mu, wɔ ɛkɔm ne osukɔm mu, wɔ mmuada pii mu, wɔ awɔw ne adagyaw mu. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
28 Ɛno nyinaa akyiri, nneɛma a ɛtɔ me so daa, asɔrekuw ahodoɔ nyinaa ho dwumadie. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
29 Hwan na ɔyɛ mmerɛ a, me nso mennyɛ mmerɛ? hwan na wɔde hintidua ato ne kwan so a, me nso m'akoma nhye? Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
30 Sɛ ɛsɛ sɛ mehoahoa me ho a, mɛhoahoa me ho wɔ nneɛma a ɛfa me mmerɛyɛ ho. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
31 Onyankopɔn a ɔyɛ yɛn Awurade Yesu Kristo Agya, a nhyira nka no daa daa no, nim sɛ mentwa atoro. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
32 Wɔ Damasko, amrado a ɔhyɛ Aretas ɔhene ase no de Damaskofoɔ kuropɔn no yɛɛ aban, a ɔpɛɛ sɛ ɔkyere me: Under pastoral review Boa yɛn
33 Nanso wɔde me sii sii mfɛnsre bi mu wɔ kɛntɛn bi mu wɔ ɔfasuo no so, na mefirii ne nsam dwaneeɛ. Under pastoral review Boa yɛn