1 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me. 2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you in marriage to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ. 3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 4 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit which you didn’t receive, or a different "good news" which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough. 5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles. 6 But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.
7 Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge? 8 I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you. 9 When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so. 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia. 11 Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.
12 But what I do, that I will continue to do, that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity, that in which they boast, they may be recognized just like us. 13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles. 14 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. 15 It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
16 I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little. 17 That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting. 18 Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast. 19 For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise. 20 For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face. 21 To my shame, I speak as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone 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 offspring of Abraham? So am I. 23 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often. 24 Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep. 26 I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers; 27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
28 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?
30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness. 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie. 32 In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city, desiring to arrest me. 33 I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and escaped his hands.
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。