2 Corinthians 11

Paul and the False Apostles

1I wish you would put up with a little foolishness # 11:1 Mk 7:22; 2Co 11:17,21 from me. Yes, do put up with me! # 11:1 Or Yes, you are putting up with me 2For I am jealous # 11:2 Jms 3:16 for you with a godly jealousy, # 11:2 Nm 25:13; Gl 4:17 because I have promised you in marriage to one husband — to present a pure # 11:2 Php 4:8 virgin to Christ. 3But I fear that, as the serpent # 11:3 Gn 3:1; Lk 10:19 deceived # 11:3 Rm 7:11; 16:18; 1Co 3:18; 2Th 2:3; 1Tm 2:14 Eve # 11:3 Gn 3:20 by his cunning, your minds may be seduced from a sincere and pure # 11:3 Other mss omit and pure devotion to Christ. # 11:3 1Th 3:5 4For if a person comes and preaches another Jesus, # 11:4 1Co 3:11 whom we did not preach, or you receive a different spirit, # 11:4 1Jn 4:1 which you had not received, or a different gospel, # 11:4 Gl 1:6 which you had not accepted, you put up with it splendidly!

5Now I consider myself in no way inferior to those “super-apostles.” # 11:5 Jd 17 6Even if I am untrained in public speaking, # 11:6 1Co 1:17 I am certainly not untrained in knowledge. # 11:6 Php 3:8; 1Jn 4:8 Indeed, we have in every way made that clear to you in everything. 7Or did I commit a sin by humbling # 11:7 Lk 14:11 myself so that you might be exalted, # 11:7 Lk 1:52 because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge? # 11:7 Ac 18:3 8I robbed other churches by taking pay from them to minister to you. 9When I was present with you and in need, I did not burden anyone, since the brothers who came from Macedonia # 11:9 Ac 16:9 supplied my needs. # 11:9 Php 4:10 I have kept myself, and will keep myself, from burdening you in any way. 10As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped # 11:10 Or silenced in the regions of Achaia. # 11:10 Ac 18:12 11Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows I do!

12But I will continue to do what I am doing, in order to deny # 11:12 Lit cut off an opportunity to those who want to be regarded as our equals in what they boast about. 13For such people are false apostles, # 11:13 Rv 2:2 deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. 14And no wonder! For Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. 15So it is no great surprise if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will be according to their works. # 11:15 Gl 3:10

Paul’s Sufferings for Christ

16I repeat: Let no one consider me a fool. But if you do, at least accept me as a fool so that I can also boast a little. 17What I am saying in this matter # 11:17 Or business, or confidence of boasting, I don’t speak as the Lord would, but as it were, foolishly. 18Since many boast according to the flesh, I will also boast. 19For you, being so wise, gladly put up with fools! # 11:19 Pr 3:7 20In fact, you put up with it if someone enslaves you, if someone exploits # 11:20 Gl 5:15 you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone is arrogant toward you, if someone slaps # 11:20 Mt 5:39 you in the face. 21I say this to our shame: We have been too weak for that!

But in whatever anyone dares to boast — I am talking foolishly — I also dare: 22Are they Hebrews? # 11:22 Php 3:5 So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the descendants of Abraham? # 11:22 Gn 16:15; Gl 3:29 So am I. 23Are they servants of Christ? I’m talking like a madman — I’m a better one: with far more labors, many more imprisonments, far worse beatings, many times near death.

24Five times I received the forty lashes minus one from the Jews. # 11:24 Dt 25:3 25Three times I was beaten with rods. # 11:25 Ac 16:22 Once I received a stoning. # 11:25 Ac 14:19 Three times I was shipwrecked. # 11:25 Ac 27:1–44; 1Tm 1:19 I have spent a night and a day in the open sea. 26On frequent journeys, I faced dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, # 11:26 Mk 14:48 dangers from my own people, # 11:26 Ac 9:23; 13:50; 14:5; 17:5; 18:12; 20:3,19; 21:27; 23:10–12; 25:3 dangers from Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers at sea, and dangers among false brothers; 27toil and hardship, many sleepless nights, hunger and thirst, often without food, cold, and without clothing. # 11:27 Rm 8:35 28Not to mention # 11:28 Lit Apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me: my concern for all the churches. 29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, # 11:29 Jn 16:1 and I do not burn with indignation?

30If boasting is necessary, I will boast about my weaknesses. 31The God and Father # 11:31 Mt 5:16; 11:27; Lk 11:13; Jn 8:42; Eph 5:20 of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed forever, knows I am not lying. 32In Damascus, # 11:32 2Sm 8:5 a ruler # 11:32 Gk ethnarches; a leader of an ethnic community under King Aretas guarded the city of Damascus in order to arrest me. 33So I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped from his hands. # 11:33 Ac 9:19–25

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2 Corinthians 11

1I would that you might bear with me in a little tipshus (foolery). Do bear with me! 2For I have kinah for you, a kinat Hashem, for, as a shadkhan (marriage broker), I betrothed you to one ish (husband) to present you as a chaste betulah to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach;#11:2 Hos 2:19; SHIR HASHIRIM; Ep 5:26-27 3But I fear lest somehow as the Nachash deceived Chavah by his cunning,#11:3 Gn 3:1-6,13 your machshavot should be led astray from a simple and pure deveykus to Moshiach. 4For if a darshan shows up and preaches another Moshiach, another “Yehoshua” (Yeshua) other than the one in our drashot, or if you receive a different “Ruach Hakodesh” from the One you received or a different Besuras HaGeulah from the one regarding which you were mekabel, you put up with [that] well enough.#11:4 Ga 1:8-9 5For I consider to have come behind the most groise (eminent) Shlichim in absolutely nothing.#11:5 1C 15:10; 2C 12:11; Ga 2:6,9 6But if indeed I am unskilled in lashon#11:6 1C 1:17; 2:1,13 yet I am not in da'as (knowledge),#11:6 Ep 3:4 but in all ways and all things I have made this abundantly clear to you.

7Or — anshuldiks! (pardon!) — did I commit averos by humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I proclaimed Hashemʼs Besuras HaGeulah to you free of charge?#11:7 1C 9:12, 18 8I robbed other of Moshiachʼs Kehillot, did I, in taking wages from them for the avodas kodesh work I did for you?#11:8 Pp 4:15 9And when I was present with you and I had lack, I did not burden anyone,#11:9 2C 12:13 for my lack was made up by the Achim b'Moshiach who came from Macedonia. So I was shomer not to make myself a burden to you and in that I will remain shomer. 10As HaEmes of Moshiach is in me, that particular boasting of mine will not be silenced#11:10 1C 9:15 in the regions of Achaia! 11Why? Because I do not have ahavah for you? Hashem knows that I do!

12But what I do I will also continue to do in order to deny an opening to those who are looking for an opening by their ravrevan (braggart) boasting to be recognized as equals with us. 13For such ones are shlichei sheker, deceitful po'alim,#11:13 Pp 3:2 transforming themselves in a masquerade as shlichim of Moshiach. 14And no wonder! For even HaSatan transforms himself into a malach ohr (an angel of light); 15It is no big “megillah,” therefore, if also Hasatanʼs ministers transform themselves as ministers of Tzedek. Their end will be according to their ma'asim.

16Listen here, let no one think me a tipesh (idiot). But if you do think me a yold (fool), then receive me as a yold that I, too, may boast ki hu zeh (a small amount).#11:16 2C 12:6 17What I speak in this bitachon of boasting, I speak not according to Moshiach Adoneinu, but as a yold. 18Als (since) many boast according to the basar, I also will boast. 19For magnanimously you put up with fools, being such talmidei chachamim yourselves! 20For you put up with it quite well, if anyone trades you into slavery, if anyone turns you into their supper, if anyone lifts your wallet, if anyone exalts himself into your gontser macher, if anyone gives you a klop in the ponem. 21To my bushah, I say that we were too weak for that! But, nevertheless, in whatever way anyone may have chutzpah in foolishness, I also will speak with chutzpah. 22Are they Ivrim? So am I. Are they Yisroelim? So am I. Are they Zera Avraham? So am I.#11:22 Pp 3:5 23Are they mesharetei HaMoshiach? — I am talking like someone who is meshuggah — #11:23 1C 15:10 I can outdo them: in labors more abundantly, in imprisonments more frequently, in beatings more by far, and often near death. 24By Yehudim chamash pe'amim I had the arba'im lashes minus one!#11:24 Dt 25:3 25Shloshah pe'amim I was beaten with rods,#11:25 Ac 16:10 pa'am achat I was stoned,#11:25 Ac 14:19 shloshah pe'amim I was shipwrecked, spending a lailah and a yom in the open sea; 26In journeys often, in sakanot mavet (mortal danger) from rivers, in sakanot mavet from robbers, in sakanot mavet from my own people,#11:26 Ac 9:23 in sakanot mavet from Goyim,#11:26 Ac 14:5 in sakanot mavet in the shtetl, in sakanot mavet in the country, in sakanot mavet in the sea, in sakanot mavet among achei sheker (false brothers); 27In labor and toil, in watchings, often in famine and thirst, in tzomot often, in cold and nakedness;#11:27 2C 6:5 28Beside the things from without, there is the pressure on me yom yom, the care of all of Moshiachʼs Kehillot. 29Who is weak and I am not weak?#11:29 1C 9:22 Who is caused to fall into chet (sin), and I do not burn?

30If it is necessary for me to boast, then I will boast of my weaknesses.#11:30 2C 12:5 31Hashem, Elohim HaAv of HaMoshiach Yehoshua knows [Hamevorach l'olmei olamim!] that I am not speaking sheker.#11:31 2C 1:23 32In Damascus the Ethnarch under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus to arrest me, 33And I was let down through the wall through a window in a basket, and escaped his hands.#11:33 Ac 9:24-25

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