should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and † Gr. not for your destruc- saith he. tion, PI should not be ashamed: a ver. 1. ch. 12. 5. 1 Co. 2.3,4. Ga. 4. 13. ch. 11. 6. 1 Co. 1. 17. & 2. 1. 4. 9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.r 10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; buts ch. 3. 1. his a bodily presence is weak, and hist Or, underspeech r contemptible. & 5. 12. stand it not. t ver. 15. 11 Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when Ro. 15. 20. we are present. + Or, mag12. For we dare nified in you not make ourselves Or, rule. of the number, or compare ourselves y Is. 65 16. with some that com1 Co. 1.31. mend themselves: z Pr. 27. 2. but they measuring Je. 9. 24. 14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: " for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ: 15 Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that shall be ttenlarged by you according to our rule abundantly, we 16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's it line of things made ready to our hand. 17 But he that glorieth, let him glo. ry in the Lord. 18 For not he that themselves by them-a Ma. 25. 20. commendeth himself selves, and compar 23. Jno.12.43. approved, whom a the Lord 1 Co. 4. 5. commendeth. ing themselves a-a Ro. 2. 29. mong themselves, are not wise. 1 Pe. 1. 7. CHAP. XI. 1 WOULD to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. 2 For I am bjealous over you with godly jealously: for I have espoused you to one husband, d that I may present you as a chaste virgin toe Le. 21. 13. Christ. d Col. 1. 28. f Ge. 3. 4. Col. 2.4.8. 1 Ti. 1.3. 3 But I fear, lest Jno. 8. 44. by any means, as the f serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds h Ga. 1. 7, 8. should be corrupted tor,withme. from the simplicity i 1 Co.15.10. that is in Christ. Ga. 2. 6. 4 For if he that 1 Co.1.17. cometh preacheth an-1 Ep. 3. 4. other Jesus, whom mch. 4. 2. we have not preach-n Ac. 18. 3. ed, or if ye receive 1 Co. 9. 6. another spirit, which o Ac. 20. 33. ye have not received, 1 Th. 2 9. or another gospel, 2Th.3.8,9. which ye have not P Ph. 4. 10. accepted, ye might q ch. 12. 14. well bear with r Ro. 9. 1. him. Gr. this 5 For I suppose i I boasting was not a whit be-shall not be hind the very chief- stopped in est apostles. s1 Co. 9. 15. 6 But though I be t ch. 6. 11. rude in speech,, yetu 1 Co. 9. 12. not in knowledge ; but we have been x Ac. 15.24. Ro. 16.18. throughly made manifest among you in all things. me. Ga. 1. 7. & 6. 12. Ph. 1. 15. 2 Pe. 2. 1. 1 Jno. 4.1. Re. 2. 2. 7 Have I committed an offence n in abasing myself that ye might be exalty Ph. 3. 2. ed, because I havel Tit. 1. 10. his self-boasting. preached to you the gospel of God freely? 8 I robbed other churches, taken wages of them, to do you service. no 9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, ο Ι was chargeable to man: for that which was lacking to me the P brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself. 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, not man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. 11 Wherefore? t because I love you not? God knoweth. 12 But what I do, that I will do, " that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we. are 13 For such false apostles, y deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; Paul's labours 15 Therefore it is 2 COR. XI. and sufferings. A. D. 60. z Ga. 1. 8. a ch. 3.9. ch. 12. 6. ishly,) I am bold also. 22 Are they Hebrews? Iso am I. Are am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so no great thing if his b Ph. 3. 19. they Israelites ? so ministers also bec ver. 1. transformed as ministers of righte-† Or, suffer. b whose end a 1 Co. 7. 6. the ousness; 11. 12. e ch. 9. 4. 16 I say again, f Ph. 3. 3, 4. Let no man think meg 1 Co. 4. 10. a fool; if otherwise, yet as a foolt receive me, that I may boast myself a little. i Ga. 2. 4. & 4.9. ch. 10. 10. k Ph. 3. 4. 1 Ao. 22. 3. 17 That which I speak, d I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolish-m1 ly, in this confidence of boasting. 18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. ye suffer Co.15.10. n Ac. 9. 16. & 21. 11. och. 1. 9, 10. 1 Co.15.30. 19 For fools gladly, g seeing p De. 25. 3. ye yourselves are wise. q Ac. 16. 22. 20 For ye suffer, r Ac. 14. 19. if h a man bring yous Ac. 27. 41. into bondage, if at Ac. 9. 23. man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. 21 I speak as concerning reproach, i ast though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever k any is bold, (I speak fool am I. 23 Are they minisof Christ? (I ters speak as a fool) I am m in labours more; more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. 24 Of the Jews five times received I pforty stripes save one. beaten a beaten with 25 Thrice was I rods, once stoned, thrice Is suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; was I 26 In journeyings perils of often, in waters, in perils of robbers, t in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in periis in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; 27 In weariness and painfulness, x in watchings often, y in hunger and thirst, in 2 COR. XII. A. D. 60. z Ac. 20. 18. Ro. 1. 14. Paul's 29 a Who is weak, concern mities. a 1 Co. 8. 13. & 9. 22. ch. 12. 5. visions. years ago. (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third hea c ch. 1. 23.ven. & 9. 1. Ga. 1. 2. 1 Th. 2. 5. Ro. 9. 5. † Gr. For mine infir-will come, 25. I a ch. 5. 17. b Ac. 22. 17. at Lystra, A. D. 46. Lu. 23. 43. 31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, d which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. 32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept possible. the city of the Dad ch. 11. 30. mascenes with a gar-e ch. 10. 8. rison, desirous to ap- & 11. 16. prehend me: f Eze. 28. 24. Ga. 4. 13, 33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands. CHAP. XII. 14. Job 2,7 Lu. 13. 16. 3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth ;) 4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not flawful for a man to utter. 5 Of such an one will I glory: d yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities. 6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me. |