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2 Corinthians 11:10-12:1 CEV
(10) As surely as I speak the truth about Christ, no one in Achaia can stop me from bragging about this.
(11) And it isn't because I don't love you. God himself knows how much I do love you.
(12) I plan to go on doing just what I have always done. Then those people won't be able to brag about doing the same things we are doing.
(13) Anyway, they are no more than false apostles and dishonest workers. They only pretend to be apostles of Christ.
(14) And it is no wonder. Even Satan tries to make himself look like an angel of light.
(15) So why does it seem strange for Satan's servants to pretend to do what is right? Someday they will get exactly what they deserve.
(16) I don't want any of you to think that I am a fool. But if you do, then let me be a fool and brag a little.
(17) When I do all this bragging, I do it as a fool and not for the Lord.
(18) Yet if others want to brag about what they have done, so will I.
(19) And since you are so smart, you will gladly put up with a fool.
(20) In fact, you let people make slaves of you and cheat you and steal from you. Why, you even let them strut around and slap you in the face.
(21) I am ashamed to say that we are too weak to behave in such a way. If they can brag, so can I, but it is a foolish thing to do.
(22) Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Jews? So am I. Are they from the family of Abraham? Well, so am I.
(23) Are they servants of Christ? I am a fool to talk this way, but I serve him better than they do. I have worked harder and have been put in jail more times. I have been beaten with whips more and have been in danger of death more often.
(24) Five times the Jews gave me thirty-nine lashes with a whip.
(25) Three times the Romans beat me with a big stick, and once my enemies stoned me. I have been shipwrecked three times, and I even had to spend a night and a day in the sea.
(26) During my many travels, I have been in danger from rivers, robbers, my own people, and foreigners. My life has been in danger in cities, in deserts, at sea, and with people who only pretended to be the Lord's followers.
(27) I have worked and struggled and spent many sleepless nights. I have gone hungry and thirsty and often had nothing to eat. I have been cold from not having enough clothes to keep me warm.
(28) Besides everything else, each day I am burdened down, worrying about all the churches.
(29) When others are weak, I am weak too. When others are tricked into sin, I get angry.
(30) If I have to brag, I will brag about how weak I am.
(31) God, the Father of our Lord Jesus, knows I am not lying. And God is to be praised forever!
(32) The governor of Damascus at the time of King Aretas had the city gates guarded, so that he could capture me.
(33) But I escaped by being let down in a basket through a window in the city wall.
2 Corinthians 12:1 CEV
(1) I have to brag. There is nothing to be gained by it, but I must brag about the visions and other things that the Lord has shown me.
2 Corinthians 11:10-33 BBE
(10) As the true word of Christ is in me, I will let no man take from me this my cause of pride in the country of Achaia.
(11) Why? because I have no love for you? let God be judge.
(12) But what I do, that I will go on doing, so that I may give no chance to those who are looking for one; so that, in the cause of their pride, they may be seen to be the same as we are.
(13) For such men are false Apostles, workers of deceit, making themselves seem like Apostles of Christ.
(14) And it is no wonder; for even Satan himself is able to take the form of an angel of light.
(15) So it is no great thing if his servants make themselves seem to be servants of righteousness; whose end will be the reward of their works.
(16) I say again, Let me not seem foolish to anyone; but if I do, put up with me as such, so that I may take a little glory to myself.
(17) What I am now saying is not by the order of the Lord, but as a foolish person, taking credit to myself, as it seems.
(18) Seeing that there are those who take credit to themselves after the flesh, I will do the same.
(19) For you put up with the foolish gladly, being wise yourselves.
(20) You put up with a man if he makes servants of you, if he makes profit out of you, if he makes you prisoners, if he puts himself in a high place, if he gives you blows on the face.
(21) I say this by way of shaming ourselves, as if we had been feeble. But if anyone puts himself forward I am talking like a foolish person, I will do the same.
(22) Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they of Israel? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
(23) Are they servants of Christ? I am talking foolishly I am more so; I have had more experience of hard work, of prisons, of blows more than measure, of death.
(24) Five times the Jews gave me forty blows but one.
(25) Three times I was whipped with rods, once I was stoned, three times the ship I was in came to destruction at sea, a night and a day I have been in the water;
(26) In frequent travels, in dangers on rivers, in dangers from outlaws, in dangers from my countrymen, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the town, in dangers in the waste land, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brothers;
(27) In hard work and weariness, in frequent watchings, going without food and drink, cold and in need of clothing.
(28) In addition to all the other things, there is that which comes on me every day, the care of all the churches.
(29) Who is feeble and I am not feeble? who is in danger of falling, and I am not angry?
(30) If I have to take credit to myself, I will do so in the things in which I am feeble.
(31) The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be praise for ever, is witness that the things which I say are true.
(32) In Damascus, the ruler under Aretas the king kept watch over the town of the people of Damascus, in order to take me:
(33) And being let down in a basket from the wall through a window, I got free from his hands.
2 Corinthians 12:1 BBE
(1) As it is necessary for me to take glory to myself, though it is not a good thing, I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 11:10-33 ALT
(10) [The] truth of Christ is in me, because this boasting in regard to me will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.
(11) Why? Because I do not love you*? God knows!
(12) But what I am doing, I also will do, so that I shall cut off the opportunity of the ones desiring an opportunity, so that in what they boast they shall be found just as we also [are].
(13) For such [ones are] false apostles, deceitful laborers, transforming themselves into [or, disguising themselves as] apostles of Christ.
(14) And no wonder! For even Satan transforms himself into [or, disguises himself as] an angel of light.
(15) Therefore, [it is] not a great thing if also his servants are transformed [or, disguised] as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
(16) Again I say, let no one consider me to be a fool; but if [you* do], at least receive me as a fool, so that _I_ also shall boast a little something [fig., in a small way].
(17) What I speak, I speak not according to [the] Lord, _but_ as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
(18) Since many boast according to the flesh, _I_ also will boast.
(19) For gladly you*, being [so] wise, put up with the fools.
(20) For you* put up with [it] if someone enslaves [fig., takes advantage of] you*, if someone devours [you*], if someone takes away [from you*], if someone exalts himself, if someone repeatedly slaps you* in the face [fig., insults you*].
(21) According to shame I speak, how that _we_ were [too] weak [for that]; but in whatever anyone is bold, in foolishness I say [it], _I_ also am bold.
(22) Hebrews are they? I also! Israelites are they? I also! Seed of Abraham are they? I also!
(23) Servants of Christ are they? (As out of my mind I speak), I even more [so]: in labors far more, in beatings many more times, in prisons more frequently, in deaths frequently [or, frequently [in danger of] death].
(24) Five times I received forty [lashes] less one from Jews.
(25) Three times I was beaten with rods, once was I stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, I have spent a night and a day in the deep;
(26) frequently on journeys, in dangers of rivers, dangers of robbers, dangers from [my] race, dangers from Gentiles, dangers in a city, dangers in a desolate place [or, uninhabited region], dangers in sea, dangers among false brothers [and sisters] [fig., ones only pretending to be believers];
(27) in labor and toil, frequently in sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, frequently without food, in cold and nakedness [or, without sufficient clothing].
(28) Apart from these external [things], the burden on me daily: my anxiety for all the assemblies.
(29) Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble [fig., to sin], and _I_ do not burn [with anger]?
(30) If it is necessary to boast, I will boast about the [things] of my weakness.
(31) The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, the One being blessed into the ages [fig. forever], knows that I am not lying!
(32) In Damascus the official of Aretas the king was guarding the city of the Damascenes, desiring to arrest me,
(33) and I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped out of his hands. [see Acts 9:25]
2 Corinthians 12:1 ALT
(1) To be boasting surely is not profitable for me, for I will come to visions and revelations of [the] Lord.
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