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保罗与假使徒

11 尽管我有点蠢,但愿你们能容忍我。你们确实对我已经非常容忍了。 我为你们而感到嫉妒,这嫉妒来自上帝。我曾把你们许配给一个丈夫,即基督,以便把你们做为纯洁的新娘(处女)献给他。 但是,我很担心你们的思想已经腐化,放弃了对基督的专一和纯洁的爱,正如蛇(魔鬼)用诡计欺骗了夏娃一样。 你们竟容忍了这样的人,即向你们所传的有关耶稣的事情与我们所传的不一样的人,你们也很愿意接受一个不同于从我们这里领受到的灵 [a]或福音 [b],那么你们就更应该容忍我了。

我丝毫不觉得我比你们那些“超级使徒”低微。 也许我在口才方面有限,但我在知识方面却无限。相反,在所有的事情上,我们在各方面已把它向你们清楚地表现出来了。

我无偿地向你们传福音。我谦卑自己,抬举你们。我是犯罪了吗? 我接受了其它教会的工资,以便能够为你们服务。 我和你们在一起时,如果我需要什么,我没有麻烦过你们中间的任何人。从马其顿来的兄弟们供给了我所需的一切。我曾处处不让自己成为你们的负担。 10 因为我心中有基督的真理,整个亚该亚 [c]地区没有人能阻止我为此感到自豪。 11 为什么呢?是因为我不爱你们吗?上帝知道我是爱你们的。

12 但是,我会坚持做我现在所做的事情,以便阻止那些想找借口自夸的人,让他们认识到在他们所骄傲的事情上,他们和我们是平等的。 13 这些人是假“使徒” [d],他们是骗子,把自己装扮成基督的使徒。

14 这毫不奇怪,撒旦把自己装扮成上帝的光明天使 [e] 15 因此,如果他的仆人把自己装扮成为正义而工作的人,这丝毫也不奇怪。但最终他们会为自己的所作所为遭到报应。

保罗讲述他的遭遇

16 我再重复一遍:谁都不应该把我看成傻瓜。不过,如果你们要这么认为,那就把我当成一个傻瓜接受吧,好让我也能有点夸耀。 17 我现在说话不是凭着主的权威,而是像一个傻瓜在自吹自擂。 18 既然许多人都吹嘘他们在世上的生活,因此我也要吹嘘。 19 你们聪明,所以高高兴兴地容忍那些傻瓜! 20 你们甚至容忍了奴役、剥削、陷害、歧视、打你们耳光的人! 21 我很惭愧地说,我们太软弱了,对你们我们做不到这些。

别人胆敢夸耀吹嘘的事情我也敢吹。(我傻里傻气地在说话。) 22 他们是希伯来人 [f]吗?我也是。他们是以色列人吗?我也是。他们是亚伯拉罕 [g]的后裔吗?我也是! 23 他们是基督的仆人吗?我更是了!(我这么说话,真是疯了!)我比他们工作更努力,我坐牢的次数更多。我重重地埃鞭打,数次面临死亡的威胁。 24 我有五次被犹太人鞭打三十九下, 25 三次被棍打,一次几乎被石头砸死,三次遭遇船毁,其中一次在水里呆过一天一夜。 26 我在多次的旅行中,遇到过洪水、盗贼、我自己的同胞(犹太人)和非犹太人的威胁。我在城市、乡村、海上和假兄弟中间都经历过危险。 27 我辛勤劳碌,数次无眠,忍受饥渴,缺乏食物,寒冷,衣不蔽体。 28 另外还有一些其它问题,其中之一是对所有教会的关注,我每天都为之担忧。 29 有谁软弱我不软弱呢?有谁犯罪我不焦虑呢?

30 如果我必须夸耀,我会为那些显示我软弱的事情夸耀。 31 愿上帝,主耶稣之父,永远得到祝福。他知道我没有撒谎。 32 我在大马士革时,亚哩达王手下的总督看守该城,要逮捕我,他在城里到处布置了警卫。 33 但是,我的朋友用一个筐把我从窗户沿城墙缒下去,使我逃出他的魔掌。

Footnotes

  1. 歌 林 多 後 書 11:4 灵: 圣灵,又被称为上帝之灵、基督之灵和慰藉者。他与上帝和基督合为一体,在世界人民中间从事上帝的事业。
  2. 歌 林 多 後 書 11:4 福音: 此消息给人们带来了上帝使人们的罪得到宽恕、并永远与上帝生活在一起的途径。
  3. 歌 林 多 後 書 11:10 亚该亚: 希腊南部哥林多所在地。
  4. 歌 林 多 後 書 11:13 使徒: 受耶稣所选,用特殊方式代表他的人。
  5. 歌 林 多 後 書 11:14 光明天使: 上帝的使者。魔鬼在愚弄人们,以便让他们以为他来自上帝。
  6. 歌 林 多 後 書 11:22 希伯来人: 犹太人的另一个名字。
  7. 歌 林 多 後 書 11:22 亚伯拉罕: 犹太人最受尊重的祖先。

11 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, 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 gospel of God freely?

I robbed other churches, 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 Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.

10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

12 But 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.

13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

15 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.

16 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.

17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.

19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.

20 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.

21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.

25 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;

26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine 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;

27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.

31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:

33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.