圣经I hope you can tolerate my foolishness. Actually, you were tolerant of me.
The anger I have caused for you is like the anger of God. Because I betrothed you to a husband, to offer you as a pure virgin to Christ.
I am afraid that your hearts may be biased towards evil, losing the pure and pure heart that exists in Christ, just like the snake tempted Eve with deceit.
If someone comes and preaches another Jesus, it is not what we have preached before. Or you may receive another spirit that is not what you have received. Or you may receive another gospel that you have not received before. You just let him go.
But I think I am not below the largest apostles at all.
My words may be vulgar, but my knowledge is not vulgar. This is what we have made clear to all of you in all things.
Am I considered a sinner because I humbled myself and elevated you because I preached the gospel of God to you for nothing?
I have wronged other churches by charging them wages to serve you.
When I was lacking in your place, I didn’t tire you all. Because of what I lacked, the brothers who came from Macedonia made up for it. I have always been cautious in all things, and I will also be cautious in the future, so as not to burden you.
Since the truth of Christ is in me, no one can stop my boasting in the region of Achaea.
Why? Is it because I don’t love you? God knows this.
What I am doing now, and I will continue to do it later, in order to cut off opportunities for those who seek opportunities, so that they will only be like us in what they praise.
Those are false apostles who act deceitfully and pretend to be apostles of Christ.
It’s not surprising. Because even Satan pretends to be an angel of light.
So it is not surprising that his attendants pretend to be righteous and benevolent. Their outcome will inevitably follow their actions.
I say again, people should not regard me as foolish. Even so, accept me as a foolish person, so that I can slightly boast.
What I said was not spoken by the Lord, but like a foolish person boasting boldly.
Since many people boast based on their blood, I also want to boast.
As wise men, you can willingly endure fools.
If anyone forcibly enslaves you, or devours you, or plunders you, or regrets you, or slaps you in the face, you can all endure them.
I said this to humiliate myself. It seems like we were weak before. However, in whatever matter a person is brave, (I say a foolish word) I am also brave.
Are they Hebrew? Me too. Are they Israelites? Me too. Are they descendants of Abraham? Me too.
Are they servants of Christ? I am even more so. I suffer more labor than them, go to jail more often, get whipped too heavily, and risk my life repeatedly.
Being whipped by Jews five times, forty each time, minus one.
I was beaten with a stick three times, stoned once, and encountered a shipwreck three times. I spent a day and a night in the deep sea.
Repeatedly traveling long distances, facing dangers from rivers, thieves, fellow countrymen, foreigners, cities, wilderness, sea, and false brothers.
Suffering from labor and hardship, unable to sleep multiple times, hungry and thirsty, unable to eat multiple times. Exposed to the cold and naked.
Besides these external matters, there are also concerns for the churches that weigh on me every day.
Who is weak, I am not weak? Who has fallen and I am not anxious?
If I must boast, then boast about the things that concern my weakness.
The Father God of Jesus, who is forever blessed, knows that I am not lying.
The governor under the command of King Arida of Damascus is guarding the city of Damascus to capture me.
I was let down from the city wall through the window, in a basket, and escaped from his hands.
