I PRAY ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
For I am jealous over you with a righteous jealousy: for I have espoused you to one man, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Mashiach.
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Chuah through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Mashiach.
For if he that comes preaches another Yahusha, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another ruach, which ye have not received, or another Besorah, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the Besorah of Elohiym freely?
I robbed other called out assemblies, taking wages of them, to do you service.
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 Makedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
As the Truth of Mashiach is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
Wherefore? because I love you not? Elohiym knows.
But what את 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.
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Mashiach.
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
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.
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.
את That which I speak, I speak it not after Yahuah, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
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.
I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
Are they Ivriym? so am I. Are they Yashar'el? so am I. Are they the seed of Avraham? so am I.
Are they ministers of Mashiach? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
Of the Yahudiym five times received I forty stripes save one.
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;
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;
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Beside those things that are without, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the called out assemblies.
Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern my infirmities.
The Elohiym and Father of our Adonai Yahusha Ha'Mashiach, which is blessed forevermore, knows that I lie not.
In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.