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2 Corinthians 11

The Message Bible MSG

1 Will you put up with a little foolish aside from me? Please, just for a moment.

2 The thing that has me so upset is that I care about you so much - this is the passion of God burning inside me! I promised your hand in marriage to Christ, presented you as a pure virgin to her husband.

3 And now I'm afraid that exactly as the Snake seduced Eve with his smooth patter, you are being lured away from the simple purity of your love for Christ.

4 It seems that if someone shows up preaching quite another Jesus than we preached - different spirit, different message - you put up with him quite nicely.

5 But if you put up with these big-shot "apostles," why can't you put up with simple me? I'm as good as they are.

6 It's true that I don't have their voice, haven't mastered that smooth eloquence that impresses you so much. But when I do open my mouth, I at least know what I'm talking about. We haven't kept anything back. We let you in on everything.

7 I wonder, did I make a bad mistake in proclaiming God's Message to you without asking for something in return, serving you free of charge so that you wouldn't be inconvenienced by me?

8 It turns out that the other churches paid my way so that you could have a free ride.

9 Not once during the time I lived among you did anyone have to lift a finger to help me out. My needs were always supplied by the Christians from Macedonia province. I was careful never to be a burden to you, and I never will be, you can count on it.

10 With Christ as my witness, it's a point of honor with me, and I'm not going to keep it quiet just to protect you from what the neighbors will think.

11 It's not that I don't love you; God knows I do.

12 I'm just trying to keep things open and honest between us.

13 They're a sorry bunch - pseudo-apostles, lying preachers, crooked workers - posing as Christ's agents but sham to the core.

14 And no wonder! Satan does it all the time, dressing up as a beautiful angel of light.

15 So it shouldn't surprise us when his servants masquerade as servants of God. But they're not getting by with anything. They'll pay for it in the end. Many a Long and Lonely Night

16 Let me come back to where I started - and don't hold it against me if I continue to sound a little foolish. Or if you'd rather, just accept that I am a fool and let me rant on a little.

17 I didn't learn this kind of talk from Christ.

18 Oh, no, it's a bad habit I picked up from the three-ring preachers that are so popular these days.

19 Since you sit there in the judgment seat observing all these shenanigans, you can afford to humor an occasional fool who happens along.

20 You have such admirable tolerance for impostors who rob your freedom, rip you off, steal you blind, put you down - even slap your face!

21 I shouldn't admit it to you, but our stomachs aren't strong enough to tolerate that kind of stuff.

22 Do they brag of being Hebrews, Israelites, the pure race of Abraham? I'm their match.

23 Are they servants of Christ? I can go them one better. (I can't believe I'm saying these things. It's crazy to talk this way! But I started, and I'm going to finish.)

24 I've been flogged five times with the Jews' thirty-nine lashes,

25 beaten by Roman rods three times, pummeled with rocks once. I've been shipwrecked three times, and immersed in the open sea for a night and a day.

26 In hard traveling year in and year out, I've had to ford rivers, fend off robbers, struggle with friends, struggle with foes. I've been at risk in the city, at risk in the country, endangered by desert sun and sea storm, and betrayed by those I thought were my brothers.

27 I've known drudgery and hard labor, many a long and lonely night without sleep, many a missed meal, blasted by the cold, naked to the weather.

28 And that's not the half of it, when you throw in the daily pressures and anxieties of all the churches.

29 When someone gets to the end of his rope, I feel the desperation in my bones. When someone is duped into sin, an angry fire burns in my gut.

30 If I have to "brag" about myself, I'll brag about the humiliations that make me like Jesus.

31 The eternal and blessed God and Father of our Master Jesus knows I'm not lying.

32 Remember the time I was in Damascus and the governor of King Aretas posted guards at the city gates to arrest me?

33 I crawled through a window in the wall, was let down in a basket, and had to run for my life.

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 utinam sustineretis modicum quid insipientiae meae sed et subportate me

2 aemulor enim vos Dei aemulatione despondi enim vos uni viro virginem castam exhibere Christo

3 timeo autem ne sicut serpens Evam seduxit astutia sua ita corrumpantur sensus vestri et excidant a simplicitate quae est in Christo

4 nam si is qui venit alium Christum praedicat quem non praedicavimus aut alium spiritum accipitis quem non accepistis aut aliud evangelium quod non recepistis recte pateremini

5 existimo enim nihil me minus fecisse magnis apostolis

6 et si inperitus sermone sed non scientia in omnibus autem manifestatus sum vobis

7 aut numquid peccatum feci me ipsum humilians ut vos exaltemini quoniam gratis evangelium Dei evangelizavi vobis

8 alias ecclesias expoliavi accipiens stipendium ad ministerium vestrum

9 et cum essem apud vos et egerem nulli onerosus fui nam quod mihi deerat suppleverunt fratres qui venerunt a Macedonia et in omnibus sine onere me vobis servavi et servabo

10 est veritas Christi in me quoniam haec gloria non infringetur in me in regionibus Achaiae

11 quare quia non diligo vos Deus scit

12 quod autem facio et faciam ut amputem occasionem eorum qui volunt occasionem ut in quo gloriantur inveniantur sicut et nos

13 nam eiusmodi pseudoapostoli operarii subdoli transfigurantes se in apostolos Christi

14 et non mirum ipse enim Satanas transfigurat se in angelum lucis

15 non est ergo magnum si ministri eius transfigurentur velut ministri iustitiae quorum finis erit secundum opera ipsorum

16 iterum dico ne quis me putet insipientem alioquin velut insipientem accipite me ut et ego modicum quid glorier

17 quod loquor non loquor secundum Dominum sed quasi in insipientia in hac substantia gloriae

18 quoniam multi gloriantur secundum carnem et ego gloriabor

19 libenter enim suffertis insipientes cum sitis ipsi sapientes

20 sustinetis enim si quis vos in servitutem redigit si quis devorat si quis accipit si quis extollitur si quis in faciem vos caedit

21 secundum ignobilitatem dico quasi nos infirmi fuerimus in quo quis audet in insipientia dico audeo et ego

22 Hebraei sunt et ego Israhelitae sunt et ego semen Abrahae sunt et ego

23 ministri Christi sunt minus sapiens dico plus ego in laboribus plurimis in carceribus abundantius in plagis supra modum in mortibus frequenter

24 a Iudaeis quinquies quadragenas una minus accepi

25 ter virgis caesus sum semel lapidatus sum ter naufragium feci nocte et die in profundo maris fui

26 in itineribus saepe periculis fluminum periculis latronum periculis ex genere periculis ex gentibus periculis in civitate periculis in solitudine periculis in mari periculis in falsis fratribus

27 in labore et aerumna in vigiliis multis in fame et siti in ieiuniis multis in frigore et nuditate

28 praeter illa quae extrinsecus sunt instantia mea cotidiana sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum

29 quis infirmatur et non infirmor quis scandalizatur et ego non uror

30 si gloriari oportet quae infirmitatis meae sunt gloriabor

31 Deus et Pater Domini Iesu scit qui est benedictus in saecula quod non mentior

32 Damasci praepositus gentis Aretae regis custodiebat civitatem Damascenorum ut me conprehenderet

33 et per fenestram in sporta dimissus sum per murum et effugi manus eius