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Concern for Their Faithfulness

¹Oh, that you would bear with me in a little ⚓folly—and indeed you do bear with me. ²For I am ⚓jealous for you with godly jealousy. For ⚓I have betrothed you to one husband, ⚓that I may present you⚓as a chaste virgin to Christ. ³But I fear, lest somehow, as ⚓the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds ⚓may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. ⁴For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a ⚓different gospel which you have not accepted—you may well put up with it!

Paul and False Apostles

⁵For I consider that ⚓I am not at all inferior to the most eminent apostles. ⁶Even though ⚓I am untrained in speech, yet I am not ⚓in knowledge. But ⚓we have been thoroughly manifested among you in all things.
⁷Did I commit sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you ⚓free of charge? ⁸I robbed other churches, taking wages from them to minister to you. ⁹And when I was present with you, and in need, ⚓I was a burden to no one, for what I lacked ⚓the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied. And in everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so I will keep myself. ¹⁰⚓As the truth of Christ is in me, ⚓no one shall stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia. ¹¹Why? ⚓Because I do not love you? God knows!
¹²But what I do, I will also continue to do, ⚓that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things of which they boast. ¹³For such ⚓are false apostles, ⚓deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. ¹⁴And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into ⚓an angel of light. ¹⁵Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, ⚓whose end will be according to their works.

Reluctant Boasting

¹⁶I say again, let no one think me a fool. If otherwise, at least receive me as a fool, that I also may boast a little. ¹⁷What I speak, ⚓I speak not according to the Lord, but as it were, foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. ¹⁸Seeing that many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast. ¹⁹For you put up with fools gladly, ⚓since you yourselves are wise! ²⁰For you put up with it ⚓if one brings you into bondage, if one devours you, if one takes from you, if one exalts himself, if one strikes you on the face. ²¹To our shame ⚓I say that we were too weak for that! But ⚓in whatever anyone is bold—I speak foolishly—I am bold also.

Suffering for Christ

²²Are they ⚓Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I. ²³Are they ministers of Christ?—I speak as a fool—I am more: ⚓in labors more abundant, ⚓in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, ⚓in deaths often. ²⁴From the Jews five times I received ⚓forty ⚓stripes minus one. ²⁵Three times I was ⚓beaten with rods; ⚓once I was stoned; three times I ⚓was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the deep; ²⁶in journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, ⚓in perils of my own countrymen, ⚓in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; ²⁷in weariness and toil, ⚓in sleeplessness often, ⚓in hunger and thirst, in ⚓fastings often, in cold and nakedness— ²⁸besides the other things, what comes upon me daily: ⚓my deep concern for all the churches. ²⁹⚓Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?
³⁰If I must boast, ⚓I will boast in the things which concern my infirmity. ³¹⚓The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⚓who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying. ³²⚓In Damascus the governor, under Aretas the king, was guarding the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desiring to arrest me; ³³but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and escaped from his hands.

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Povlauj thiab cov cuav tubtxib

¹Kuv xav thov kom nej ua siab ntev thev tej lus ruam uas kuv hais qho mentsis. Nej cia li thev los maj.⚓ ²Kuv yeej khib xeeb nej ib yam li Vajtswv khib xeeb, rau qhov kuv twb qhaib nej rau tib tug txiv xwb, xwv kuv thiaj muab nej ua nkauj xwb dawb huv pub rau Khetos. ³Tiamsis kuv ntshai tsam nej tej kev xav yuav raug ntxias yuam kev tsis muaj lub siab xib thiab tsis dawb huv rau Khetos ib yam li tus nab tej tswvyim phem dag ntxias Eva. ⁴Yog tias leejtwg tuaj tshaj tawm txog dua ib tug Yexus uas tsis yog tus Yexus uas peb tshaj tawm, lossis yog nej txais dua ib tug ntsuj plig uas txawv dua tus uas nej twb txais lawm, lossis yog nej txais yuav txoj xov zoo uas txawv txoj uas nej twb txais lawm, kuj yog nej thev taus tej ntawd zoo tiag tiag li. ⁵Kuv xav tias kuv tsis qes dua cov tubtxib uas zoo tshaj ntawd ib qho twg li. ⁶Txawm yog kuv tsis txawj hais lus, los kuv kuj txawj paub. Peb ua tej no tshwm rau nej pom tseeb rau hauv txhua yam uas peb ua.
⁷Qhov uas kuv txo hwjchim thiaj tsa kom nej tau ntsej muag thiab kuv piav Vajtswv txoj xov zoo rau nej tsis yuav nqe ntawd yog txhaum lov? ⁸Kuv lws lwm pawg ntseeg, yog qhov uas kuv txais lawv cov nyiaj los yug kuv kom kuv thiaj ua num tau rau nej. ⁹Thiab thaum kuv tseem nrog nej nyob thiab tabtom tu ncua, los kuv tsis ua lub nra hnyav rau leejtwg ris, rau qhov cov kwvtij uas tuaj hauv lub xeev Makhedaunia twb pub tej uas kuv tu ncua rau kuv lawm. Txhua yam mas kuv tsis ua lub nra hnyav rau nej kiag li thiab kuv yeej yuav tsis ua lub nra mus li. ¹⁰Khetos txojkev tseeb yeej nyob hauv kuv, tej uas kuv khav txog ntawd mas tsis muaj leejtwg hauv lub xeev Akhaya yuav txwv tau kuv tsis txhob hais. ¹¹Vim li cas? Yog vim kuv tsis hlub nej lov? Vajtswv paub tias kuv yeej hlub nej.
¹²Thiab yam uas kuv ua kuv yuav ua mus li, kom thiaj tav tau cov neeg uas pheej nrhiav sijhawm kom luag suav tias lawv ua haujlwm ib yam li peb ua hauv txhua yam uas lawv khav ntawd. ¹³Lawv cov ntawd yog cuav tubtxib, yog tub zog uas dag ntxias, thiab lawv ua txuj zoo li lawv yog Khetos cov tubtxib. ¹⁴Qhov uas ua li ntawd tsis txhob phimhwj li, rau qhov Xatas⚓ kuj txia ua tubtxib saum ntuj uas tawm hauv qhov kaj tuaj. ¹⁵Vim li no yog Xatas cov tub qhe txia los ua txojkev ncaj ncees li tub qhe kuj yoojyim ua tau. Thaum kawg lawv yuav saws raws li lawv tau ua.

Povlauj thev kev txom nyem ua tubtxib

¹⁶Kuv rov hais dua tias tsis txhob cia leejtwg xav tias kuv yog neeg ruam. Tiamsis yog nej xav li ntawd kuj cia li lees yuav kuv yam li lees yuav tus neeg ruam xwv kuv thiaj khav tau mentsis. ¹⁷(Tej uas kuv muaj cuab kav khav li no kuv tsis yog hais raws li tus Tswv kom kuv hais tiamsis kuv hais raws li tej neeg ruam. ¹⁸Vim muaj ntau leej khav raws li neeg ntiajteb, kuv kuj yuav khav thiab.) ¹⁹Nej twb zoo siab ua siab ntev thev cov neeg ruam, vim nej txawj ntse heev kaj. ²⁰Rau qhov nej ua tau siab ntev thev rau thaum luag yuam nej ua qhev lossis noj nej tug lossis tsuj yuam nej lossis tsab ua loj lossis ntaus nej lub plhu. ²¹Kuv txaj muag lees hais tias peb tsis muaj zog txaus ua li ntawd.
Tiamsis leejtwg muaj cuab kav khav txog yam twg, kuv kuj kav khav txog yam ntawd thiab. (Kuv hais yam li tus ruam hais.) ²²Lawv yog haiv neeg Henplais lov? Kuv kuj yog thiab. Lawv yog neeg Yixayee lov? Kuv kuj yog thiab. Lawv yog Aplahas caj ces lov? Kuv kuj yog thiab? ²³Lawv yog cov uas ua num rau Khetos lov? Kuv kuj ua num rau nwg zoo dua lawv (kuv tabtom hais yam li tus vwm hais,) kuv ua haujlwm khwv dua lawv, kuv raug kaw hauv tsev lojfaj ntau dua lawv, kuv raug muab nplawm heev kawg li, thiab kuv ntsib kev tuag ntau zaus. ²⁴Kuv raug cov Yudai nplawm tsib zaug, ib zaug twg yog peb caug cuaj nplawm.⚓ ²⁵Kuv raug xuas pas nplawm peb zaug, raug xuas pob zeb ntaus ib zaug. Kuv caij nkoj tawg peb zaug. Kuv ntab hauv dej hiavtxwv ib hnub ib hmos, ²⁶kuv taug kev tsis tu ncua, kuv ntsib xwm txheej phem hauv hav dej, ntsib xwm txheej phem ntawm tub sab, ntsib ntawm kuv haiv neeg, ntsib ntawm lwm haiv neeg, ntsib hauv lub nroog, ntsib hauv tebchaws moj sab qhua, ntsib hauv dej hiavtxwv thiab ntsib ntawm cov cuav kwvtij. ²⁷Kuv ua haujlwm khwv thiab txom nyem, kuv yoo dab ntub ntau zaus, tshaib nqhis, yoo mov ntau zaus, thiab tiv no thiab liab qab. ²⁸Dua li ntawd qhov uas kuv txhawj txog txhua pawg ntseeg tseem niaj hnub ua rau kuv hnyav siab. ²⁹Leejtwg tsis muaj zog ces kuv kuj tsis muaj zog thiab? Leejtwg raug ntxias kom yuam kev es kuv tsis ntxhov siab?
³⁰Yog tsim nyog kuv khav, kuv yuav khav txog tej uas qhia kom pom tias kuv qaug zog. ³¹Vajtswv uas yog peb tus Tswv Yexus Khetos leej Txiv, yog tus uas tsim nyog qhuas mus ib txhis, nws paub tias kuv tsis dag. ³²Tus uas vajntxwv Aletha tsa kav lub nroog Damaxaka txib neeg zov lub nroog Damaxaka yuav ntes kuv, ³³tiamsis kuv raug nyob hauv lub tawb loj muab tso ntawm qhov rais hauv lub ntsa loog nqes dauv rau sab nraud kuv thiaj khiav dim ntawm tus thawj uas kav lub nroog txhais tes.