2 Corinthians 11 in plain modern English. New Ground English Translation.
I wish you'd put up with a little from me. Actually, you already are putting up with me!
I'm of you with the same kind of protectiveness God has. I promised you to husband — to present you to The as someone completely and
But I'm afraid that just as the deceived Eve with his your minds might be led astray from your sincere and to The One.
Because if someone comes along and talks about a different Jesus than the one we told you about, or if you receive a different than the one you received, or a different than what you accepted — you seem to put up with that just fine!
I don't consider myself the least bit inferior to those so-called
Sure, maybe I'm not a but I definitely what I'm We've made that clear to you in every possible way.
Did I do something wrong by so that you could be lifted up? I brought you God's without charging you anything!
I other by accepting support from them so I could serve you.
When I was with you and ran short on money, I didn't any of you. The brothers and sisters who came from took care of what I needed. I made sure not to be a to you in any way, and I'll keep it that way.
As surely as The One's truth lives in me, nobody in the whole region of is going to stop me from making this
Why? Because I don't you? God knows I do!
And I'll keep doing what I'm doing — to the out from those who want to claim they work on the same terms we do.
People like that are dishonest workers who as of The One.
And that's no surprise — even disguises himself as an of
So it's really no big deal if his also disguise themselves as of In the end, they'll get what their actions deserve.
Let me say it again: don't think I'm a for this. But even if you do, then at least humor me like you would a so I can do a little of my own.
What I'm about to say, I'm not saying the way the would — I'm going to talk like a fool with all this bragging.
Since so many people are bragging about their I'll do the same.
After all, you're so that you happily put up with fools!
You put up with it when someone you, you, takes everything you have, looks down on you, or even you in the
I'm embarrassed to admit that we were apparently too for that kind of thing. But whatever anyone else dares to brag about — I'm talking like a fool now — I'll dare to brag about it too.
Are they So am I. Are they So am I. Are they of So am I.
Are they of The One? I'm out of my to talk like this, but I'm an even better one! I've worked much harder, been in prison far more often, been beaten beyond what anyone should survive, and faced death over and over again.
Five times I received from the Jewish authorities the
Three times I was with once I was three times I was and I spent a night and a day drifting in the open sea.
I've been constantly on the move, in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my own in danger from in danger in the city, in danger in the wilderness, in danger at sea, in danger from who to be
I've known and many hunger and thirst, often going without food, and being cold and exposed.
And on top of everything else, there's the I feel — my for all the
When someone is I feel that weakness. When someone is it me up
If I have to I'll about the things that show how I am.
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus — who is — knows that I'm not lying.
In the under had the city guarded to try to arrest me.
But I was lowered in a through a in the and I slipped right through his hands.