I wish you would bear with me a little, that I may speak foolishly: but you do indeed bear with me.

For I am jealous over you with the jealousy of Elohim: for I have betrothed you to one husband as a pure virgin, that I may present you to the Mashiyach.

But I fear lest, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity toward the Mashiyach.

For if he who comes to you proclaims another Y'shua whom we have not proclaimed, or you receive another spirit which you have not received, or another gospel which you have not accepted, you might well put up with it.

For I reckon that I am in nothing inferior to those legates who excel.

For though I am unskilled in speech, yet not in knowledge; but in everything we have been made known among you.

Or did I somehow commit a fault, that I humbled myself so that you might be exalted, and free of charge I proclaimed to you the good news of Elohim?

And other churches I stripped and I took pay of them for your service.

And when I came to you and was in need, I was burdensome to no one of you; for the brothers who came from Macedonia filled my lack, and in everything I kept myself, and I keep myself, from being burdensome to you.

The truth of the Mashiyach is in me, that this boasting will not be nullified in me in the regions of Achaia.

Why? Because I do not love you? Elohim knows.

But this that I do I will also do, that I may cut off the occasion of those who seek an occasion, so that in that thing in which they boast they may be found even as we.

For these are false apostles, crafty workers, and they make themselves like the apostles of the Mashiyach.

And there is nothing to wonder at in this. For if Satana makes himself like a messenger of light,

it is no great thing if his servants also make themselves like servants of righteousness; their end will be according to their works.

Again I say, let no one think of me as a fool; or if not, receive me even as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.

What I am now saying, I am not saying in our Master, but as in folly, in this matter of boasting.

Because many boast in the flesh, I also will boast.

For you yourselves put up with listening to those who lack understanding, since you are wise.

And you put up with the one who puts you in bondage, and with the one who eats you up, and with the one who takes from you, and with the one who lifts himself over you, and with the one who strikes you on your face.

I speak as if in disgrace—as if we were weak. In lack of understanding I say that in whatever anyone is bold, I also am bold.

If they are Hebrews, so am I. If they are Israelites, so am I. If they are the seed of Avraham, so am I.

If they are ministers of the Mashiyach—in lack of understanding I say it—I am more than they: in labors more than they, in stripes more than they, in bonds more than they, in deaths many times.

From the Yehudaye five times I received forty stripes less one.

Three times I was beaten with rods; one time I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a day and a night I was in the sea without a ship.

In many journeys, in danger from rivers, in danger from robbers, in danger from my kindred, in danger from the peoples; I have been in danger in the city, I have been in danger in the wilderness, in danger in the sea, in danger from false brothers.

In toil and in weariness, in much watching, in hunger and in thirst, in much fasting, in cold and in nakedness.

besides the rest, and the thronging upon me every day, and my care for all the assemblies.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I do not burn?

If I must boast, I will boast in my weaknesses.

Elohim, the Father of our Master Y'shua the Mashiyach, blessed forever and ever, knows that I do not lie.

In Darmasuq the chief of the force of Artus the king was guarding the city of the Darmasuqaye to seize me.

And from a window in a basket they let me down from the wall, and I escaped from his hands.