2 Coríntios 11

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*11:22 or, seed 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.

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.