1 请你们容忍我这一点点的愚昧， 其实你们本来就是容忍我的。
2 我以 神的热爱爱你们， 因为我把你们献给基督， 好像把贞洁的童女许配给一个丈夫。
3 我只怕你们的心受到引诱， 失去对基督的单纯和贞洁， 好像蛇用诡计骗了夏娃一样。
4 如果有人来传讲另一位耶稣， 不是我们传过的， 或者你们接受另一个不同的灵， 不是你们领受过的， 又或者接受另一个不同的福音， 不是你们接受过的， 你们倒可以容忍得下！
5 但我认为自己没有一点比不上那些"超等使徒"；
6 虽然我不善于辞令， 却是有学问的， 我们在各方面， 已经向你们清楚显明了。
7 我贬低自己， 使你们高升， 把 神的福音白白地传给你们， 我这样是犯罪吗？
8 我为了服事你们， 就接受了别的教会的供应， 也可以说是剥削了他们。
9 我在你们那里有缺乏的时候， 并没有连累任何人， 因为从马其顿来的弟兄们， 补足了我的缺乏。我在各方面都不让自己成为你们的重担， 将来也是一样。
10 我有基督的真理在我里面， 在亚该亚一带没有人能阻止我这样夸口。
11 为什么呢？是我不爱你们吗？ 神是知道的。
12 我现在所作的， 将来还要作， 为了要断绝那些投机分子的机会， 不让他们在所夸的事上， 被人认为是跟我们一样的。
13 这样的人是假使徒， 是诡诈的工人， 装成基督的使徒。
14 这并不希奇， 因为撒但自己也装作光明的天使，
15 所以， 撒但的仆役装成公义的仆役， 也不必大惊小怪。他们的结局必按他们所作的而定。
16 我再说， 谁也不要以为我是愚昧的； 就算这样， 也要接纳我这个愚昧的人， 使我可以稍微地夸口。
17 我这样满有自信地夸口， 不是照着主所吩咐的， 而是好像愚昧人在说话。
18 既然有许多人按着世俗的标准夸口， 我也要夸口。
19 你们那么精明， 竟然乐意容忍愚昧的人。
20 如果有人奴役你们， 侵吞、榨取你们， 向你们趾高气扬， 打你们的脸， 你们就容忍吧！
21 说来惭愧， 我们太软弱了。说句愚昧的话， 如果有人在什么事上是勇敢的， 我也是勇敢的。
22 他们是希伯来人吗？我也是。他们是以色列人吗？我也是。他们是亚伯拉罕的后裔吗？我也是。
23 他们是基督的仆人吗？说句狂话， 我更是。我受更多的劳苦， 更多的坐监， 受了过量的鞭打， 常常有生命的危险。
24 我被犹太人打过五次， 每次四十下减去一下，
25 被棍打过三次， 被石头打过一次， 三次遇着船坏， 在深海里飘了一昼一夜；
26 多次行远路， 遇着江河的危险、强盗的危险、同族的危险、外族的危险、城中的危险、旷野的危险、海上的危险、假弟兄的危险；
27 劳碌辛苦， 多次不得睡觉， 又饥又渴， 多次缺粮， 赤身挨冷。
28 除了这些外面的事， 还有为各教会挂心的事， 天天压在我的身上。
29 有谁软弱， 我不软弱呢？有谁陷在罪里， 我不焦急呢？
30 如果必须夸口， 我就夸自己的弱点。
31 主耶稣的父 神是应当永远受称颂的， 他知道我没有说谎。
32 在大马士革， 亚里达王手下的总督把守着大马士革城， 要拘捕我，
33 我就被人放在一个大篮子里， 从城墙的窗户缒下来， 逃脱了他的手。
1 Would that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: but indeed ye do bear with me. 2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ. 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ. 4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if ye receive a different spirit, which ye did not receive, or a different gospel, which ye did not accept, ye do well to bear with him. 5 For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. 6 But though I be rude in speech, yet am I not in knowledge; nay, in every way have we made this manifest unto you in all things. 7 Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought? 8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them that I might minister unto you; 9 and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I 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 glorying 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 that desire an occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we. 13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for even Satan fashioneth himself into an angel of light. 15 It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
16 I say again, Let no man think me foolish; but if ye do, yet as foolish receive me, that I also may glory a little. 17 That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of glorying. 18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. 19 For ye bear with the foolish gladly, being wise yourselves. 20 For ye bear with a man, if he bringeth you into bondage, if he devoureth you, if he taketh you captive, if he exalteth himself, if he smiteth you on the face. 21 I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in foolishness), 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 one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, 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 have I been in the deep; 26 in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my countrymen, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; 27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. 28 Besides those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is caused to stumble, and I burn not? 30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness. 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed for evermore knoweth that I lie not. 32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes in order to take me: 33 and through a window was I let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.