1 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. 2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. 5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. 6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things. 7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? 8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service. 9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the 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, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. 11 Wherefore? 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. 13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. 17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. 18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. 19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. 20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a 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, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also. 22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. 24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; 26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; 27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. 28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? 30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities. 31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. 32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: 33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
1 请你们容忍我这一点点的愚昧， 其实你们本来就是容忍我的。
2 我以 神的热爱爱你们， 因为我把你们献给基督， 好像把贞洁的童女许配给一个丈夫。
3 我只怕你们的心受到引诱， 失去对基督的单纯和贞洁， 好像蛇用诡计骗了夏娃一样。
4 如果有人来传讲另一位耶稣， 不是我们传过的， 或者你们接受另一个不同的灵， 不是你们领受过的， 又或者接受另一个不同的福音， 不是你们接受过的， 你们倒可以容忍得下！
5 但我认为自己没有一点比不上那些"超等使徒"；
6 虽然我不善于辞令， 却是有学问的， 我们在各方面， 已经向你们清楚显明了。
7 我贬低自己， 使你们高升， 把 神的福音白白地传给你们， 我这样是犯罪吗？
8 我为了服事你们， 就接受了别的教会的供应， 也可以说是剥削了他们。
9 我在你们那里有缺乏的时候， 并没有连累任何人， 因为从马其顿来的弟兄们， 补足了我的缺乏。我在各方面都不让自己成为你们的重担， 将来也是一样。
10 我有基督的真理在我里面， 在亚该亚一带没有人能阻止我这样夸口。
11 为什么呢？是我不爱你们吗？ 神是知道的。
12 我现在所作的， 将来还要作， 为了要断绝那些投机分子的机会， 不让他们在所夸的事上， 被人认为是跟我们一样的。
13 这样的人是假使徒， 是诡诈的工人， 装成基督的使徒。
14 这并不希奇， 因为撒但自己也装作光明的天使，
15 所以， 撒但的仆役装成公义的仆役， 也不必大惊小怪。他们的结局必按他们所作的而定。
16 我再说， 谁也不要以为我是愚昧的； 就算这样， 也要接纳我这个愚昧的人， 使我可以稍微地夸口。
17 我这样满有自信地夸口， 不是照着主所吩咐的， 而是好像愚昧人在说话。
18 既然有许多人按着世俗的标准夸口， 我也要夸口。
19 你们那么精明， 竟然乐意容忍愚昧的人。
20 如果有人奴役你们， 侵吞、榨取你们， 向你们趾高气扬， 打你们的脸， 你们就容忍吧！
21 说来惭愧， 我们太软弱了。说句愚昧的话， 如果有人在什么事上是勇敢的， 我也是勇敢的。
22 他们是希伯来人吗？我也是。他们是以色列人吗？我也是。他们是亚伯拉罕的后裔吗？我也是。
23 他们是基督的仆人吗？说句狂话， 我更是。我受更多的劳苦， 更多的坐监， 受了过量的鞭打， 常常有生命的危险。
24 我被犹太人打过五次， 每次四十下减去一下，
25 被棍打过三次， 被石头打过一次， 三次遇着船坏， 在深海里飘了一昼一夜；
26 多次行远路， 遇着江河的危险、强盗的危险、同族的危险、外族的危险、城中的危险、旷野的危险、海上的危险、假弟兄的危险；
27 劳碌辛苦， 多次不得睡觉， 又饥又渴， 多次缺粮， 赤身挨冷。
28 除了这些外面的事， 还有为各教会挂心的事， 天天压在我的身上。
29 有谁软弱， 我不软弱呢？有谁陷在罪里， 我不焦急呢？
30 如果必须夸口， 我就夸自己的弱点。
31 主耶稣的父 神是应当永远受称颂的， 他知道我没有说谎。
32 在大马士革， 亚里达王手下的总督把守着大马士革城， 要拘捕我，
33 我就被人放在一个大篮子里， 从城墙的窗户缒下来， 逃脱了他的手。