1Would to God-The Father you^2f 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 pure (clean; not corrupt) virgin to Moshiach [Messiah]. 3But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Khav’vah [Eve] (to breath, to live) through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Moshiach [Messiah]. 4For if he that comes preaches another Yeshua [God is Salvation], whom we have not preached, or [if] you^2f receive another Spirit [Ruach], which you^2f have not received, or another Gospel (joyful message), which you^2f have not accepted, you^2f might well bear with [him]. 5For I suppose I was not the least bit behind the very most important apostles. 6But though [I be] rude (unskilled, unrefined or unlearned) in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been thoroughly made manifest among you in all things.

7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that you^2f might be exalted, because I have preached to you the Gospel (joyful message) of God-The Father 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 [extended land] supplied: and in all [things] I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and [so] will I keep [myself]. 10As the truth of Moshiach [Messiah] is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia [trouble]. 11For what reason? because I love you not? God-The Father knows.

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 Moshiach [Messiah]. 14And no marvel; for Satan [the adversary] 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 - Kurios, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. 18Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. 19For you^2f suffer (allow, to let, permit) fools gladly, seeing you^2f [yourselves] are wise. 20For you^2f suffer (allow, to let, permit), 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 strike you on the face. 21I speak as concerning reproach (disgrace; shame), as though we had been weak. However whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also. 22Are they ‘Evri’ot [Hebrew] ? so [am] I. Are they Yisra’eli’s? so [am] I. Are they the seed of Avraham [Exalted Father]? so [am] I. 23Are they ministers of Moshiach [Messiah]? (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 Y’hudim (Judeans) [praised of Yah] 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; 26[In] journeyings often, [in] perils of waters, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils by [my 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 comes 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 my infirmities. 31The God-The Father and Father of our Lord - Kurios [he to whom a person belongs] Yeshua [God is Salvation] Moshiach [Messiah], which is Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) forevermore, knows that I lie not. 32In Dammesek (Damascus) [silent is the sackcloth weaver] the governor under Aretas [graver] the king kept the city of the Damascenes (Damascus) with a Garrison (fortification; military post), desirous to apprehend me: 33And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.