2 Coríntios 11

Ko Pāora me ngā Āpōtoro Teka

1 Ko tāku e hiahia nei kia āta hanga mai koutou ki ahau, kia iti nei, i ahau e wairangi nei. Āe rā, kia āta hanga mai anō ki ahau. 2 Nui atu hoki tōku ngākau ki a koutou, he ngākau nō te Atua. Kua oti hoki koutou te taumau e ahau mā te tāne kotahi, kia tāpaea atu ai hei wāhina kore hē ki a te Karaiti. 3 E wehi ana ia ahau, kei pērā me Iwi i whakawaia e te tinihanga o te nākahi, kei kūmea atu ō koutou whakaaro ki te hē, kei mahue te tapatahi o te ngākau ki a te Karaiti. 4 Ki te tae atu hoki te tangata, me te kauwhau i tētahi Īhu e rerekē ana i tā mātou i kauwhau ai, ki te whiwhi rānei koutou i tētahi wairua kē atu i tēnā i whiwhi nā koutou, ki tētahi rongopai rānei e rerekē ana i tā koutou i whakaae ai, e tika ana koutou kia āta hanga ki a ia.

5 Ki ahau hoki kāhore rawa ahau i hoki iho i ngā tino āpōtoro. 6 Nā, ahakoa tangata ware ahau ki te kōrero, kāhore ia ki te mātauranga; heoi i ngā mea katoa kua tino kitea tēnei i roto i a koutou.

7 I hara oti ahau i ahau i whakaiti rā i ahau kia kake ai koutou, i kauwhau utukore rā i te rongopai o te Atua ki a koutou? 8 I pāhuatia e ahau ērā atu hāhi, i tango utu ahau i a rātou kia minita ai ahau ki a koutou. 9 Ā, i ahau i a koutou nā, ā, i kore tētahi mea māku, kāhore ahau i taimaha ki tētahi; nā ngā tēina hoki, i tō rātou haerenga mai i Makeronia, i whakawhiwhi ahau ki ngā mea i kore i ahau. I ngā mea katoa hoki i tiaki ahau i ahau kei taimaha iho ki a koutou; inā, ka tiaki pērā anō ahau i ahau. 10 I te mea kei ahau te pono o te Karaiti, e kore tēnei whakamanamana āku e āraia e tētahi i ngā wāhi o Akāia. 11 Nā te aha? Nā te mea koia kāhore ōku aroha ki a koutou? E mātau ana te Atua.

12 Ko tāku ia e mea nei, e meinga anō e ahau, kia motuhia atu ai e ahau te take a te hunga e hiahia ana ki te take; kia kitea ai rātou i runga i tā rātou e whakamanamana nei e rite tahi ana anō ki a mātou nei. 13 He āpōtoro teka hoki ngā pērā, he kaimahi i te tinihanga, e whakaahua ana i a rātou kia rite ki ngā āpōtoro a te Karaiti. 14 Ā, ehara i te mea whakamīharo rawa; inā hoki a Hātana, e whakaahua kē ana i a ia hei anahera mō te mārama, 15 heoi, ehara i te mea nui ki te whakaahua kē anō āna minita i a rātou kia rite ki ngā minita o te tika; nā, ko tō rātou whakamutunga e rite ki ā rātou mahi.

Ngā Mamaetanga o Pāora, he Āpōtoro hoki

16 Me kī atu anō e ahau, kaua tētahi e mea he wairangi ahau; ā, ahakoa pēnā, heoi tahuri mai ki ahau, ki te wairangi, kia whakamanamana ai anō ahau, he mea iti nei. 17 Ko tāku e kōrero nei, ehara i te kōrero i runga i tā te Ariki, engari me te mea i runga i te wairangi, i tēnei whakamanamana ka kaha nei. 18 Nā, ka tokomaha nei e whakamanamana i runga i tō te kikokiko, ka whakamanamana anō hoki ahau. 19 E pai ana hoki koutou, e āta hanga ana ki te hunga wairangi, he hunga whakaaro hoki koutou. 20 Ka āta hanga hoki koutou ki te whakataurekareka tētahi i a koutou, ki te pau ā koutou mea i tētahi, ki te tangohia e ia hei herehere, ki te whakakake ia, ki te pāhiatia e ia tō koutou mata. 21 He kōrero whakaiti tāku, ānō he ngoikore mātou.

Nā, ki te māia tētahi ki tētahi mea; he kōrero wairangi nei tāku, ka māia anō ahau. 22 He Hiperu rātou? Ahau anō hoki. Nō Īharaira rātou? Ahau anō hoki. He whānau rātou nā Āperahama? Pērā anō hoki ahau. 23 He minita rātou nā te Karaiti? He kōrero pōrangi tāku nei, tērā atu anō tōku; hira atu ōku māuiuitanga, maha noa atu ōku meatanga ki roto ki ngā whare herehere, nui noa atu ōku whiunga, maha atu ōku mate. 24 E rima ngā wā i whiua ai ahau e ngā Hūrai, e whā tekau pānga o te whiu, hāunga te kotahi. 25 E toru ōku whiunga ki te rākau, kotahi tōku ākinga ki te kōhatu, tuatoru ahau ki te kaipuke pakaru, kotahi ōku pō, kotahi ōku rā i te rire; 26 i ngā hāereerenga maha, i ngā oranga noatanga i ngā awa, i ngā oranga noatanga i ngā kaipāhua, i ngā oranga noatanga i ōku whanaunga, i ngā oranga noatanga i ngā tauiwi, i ngā oranga noatanga i te pā, i ngā oranga noatanga i te koraha, i ngā oranga noatanga i te moana, i ngā oranga noatanga i ngā tēina teka. 27 Māuiui ana, ngenge ana, he maha ngā mataaratanga, ngā matekaitanga, ngā matewaitanga, he maha ngā wā i nohopuku ai, i mātao ai, i kore ai he kākahu. 28 Hei tāpiri mō ngā mea o waho, ko te mea e pēhi nei i ahau i tēnei rā, i tēnei rā, ko te mānukanuka ki ngā hāhi katoa. 29 Ko wai te ngoikore ana, ā, kāhore ahau e ngoikore? Ko wai kua tūtuki te waewae, ā, kāhore ahau e pāwerawera?

30 Ki te takoto te tikanga kia whakamanamana ahau, me whakamanamana ahau ki tōku ngoikoretanga. 31 E mātau ana te Atua, te Matua o tō tātou Ariki, o Īhu, ko ia nei te whakapaingia ana ake tonu atu, kāhore āku teka. 32 I Ramahiku e tiakina ana e te kāwana i raro i a Kīngi Areta te pā o ngā tāngata o Ramahiku, he mea kia hopukina ai ahau. 33 Heoi, tukua iho ana ahau i roto i te kete, rā te matapihi, rā te taiepa kōhatu, ā, mawhiti atu ana i roto i ōna ringa.

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.