The Second Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians
Chapter 1
1 Paul, an apostle of Mashiyach Yeshua through the will of Adonai, and Timothy our brother, unto the assembly of Adonai which is at Corinth, with all the saints that are in the whole of Achaia:
2 Grace to you and peace from Adonai our Father and the Master Yeshua Mashiyach.
3 Blessed be the Father and Father of our Master Yeshua Ha Mashiyach, the Father of mercies and Father of all comfort;
4 who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of Adonai.
5 For as the sufferings of Mashiyach abound unto us, even so our comfort also abounds through Mashiyach.
6 But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which works in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer:
7 and our hope for you is stedfast; knowing that, as you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort.
8 For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
9 yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in Adonai who raises the dead:
10 who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver: on whom we have set our hope that He will also still deliver us;
11 you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift bestowed upon us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf.
12 For our glorifying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of Adonai, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of Adonai, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
13 For we write no other things unto you, than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge unto the end:
14 as also you did acknowledge us in part, that we are your glorying, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Master Yeshua.
15 And in this confidence I was minded to come first unto you, that you might have a second benefit;
16 and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and of you to be set forward on my journey unto Judaea.
17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the yea yea and the nay nay?
18 But as Adonai is faithful, our word toward you is not yea and nay.
19 For the Son of Adonai, Yeshua the Messiah, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not yea and nay, but in Him is yea.
20 For how many soever be the promises of Adonai, in Him is the yea: wherefore also through Him is the Amein, unto the glory of Adonai through us.
21 Now He that establishes us with you in Mashiyach, and anointed us, is Adonai;
22 who also sealed us, and gave us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
23 But I call Adonai for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I forbare to come unto Corinth.
24 Not that we have mastership over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for in faith you stand fast.
Chapter 2
1 But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you with sorrow.
2 For if I make you sorry, who then is he that makes me glad but he that is made sorry by me?
3 And I wrote this very thing, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have more abundantly unto you.
5 But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I press not too heavily) to you all.
6 Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many;
7 so that contrariwise you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.
8 Wherefore I beseech you to confirm your love toward him.
9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.
10 But to whom you forgive anything, I forgive also: for what I also have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, for your sakes have I forgiven it in the presence of Mashiyach;
11 that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
12 Now when I came to Troas for the evangel of Mashiyach, and when a door was opened unto me in Adonai,
13 I had no relief for my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went forth into Macedonia.
14 But thanks be unto Adonai, who always leads us in triumph in Mashiyach, and makes manifest through us the savor of His knowledge in every place.
15 For we are a sweet savor of Mashiyach unto Adonai, in them that are saved, and in them that perish;
16 to the one a savor from death unto death; to the other a savor from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
17 For we are not as the many, corrupting the Word of Adonai: but as of sincerity, but as of Adonai, in the sight of Adonai, speak we in Mashiyach.
Chapter 3
1 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you?
2 You are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men;
3 being made manifest that you are an epistle of Mashiyach, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living Adonai; not in tables of stone, but in tables that are hearts of flesh.
4 And such confidence have we through Mashiyach toward Adonai:
5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from Adonai;
6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit gives life.
7 But if the ministration of death, written, and engraven on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Yisrayah could not look stedfastly upon the face of Moshe for the glory of his face; which glory was passing away:
8 how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory?
9 For if the ministration of condemnation has glory, much rather does the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
10 For verily that which has been made glorious has not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses.
11 For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory.
12 Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
13 and are not as Moshe, who put a veil upon his face, that the children of Yisrayah should not look stedfastly on the end of that which was passing away:
14 but their minds were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, it not being revealed to them that it is done away in Mashiyach.
15 But unto this day, whensoever Moshe is read, a veil lies upon their heart.
16 But whensoever it shall turn to Adonai, the veil is taken away.
17 Now Adonai is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of Adonai is, there is liberty.
18 But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of Adonai, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Spirit of Adonai.
Chapter 4
1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint not:
2 but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the Word of Adonai deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of Adonai.
3 And even if our evangel is veiled, it is veiled in them that perish:
4 in whom the elohim [god] of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the evangel of the glory of Mashiyach, who is the image of Adonai, should not dawn upon them.
5 For we preach not ourselves, but Mashiyach Yeshua as Master, and ourselves as your servants for Yeshua's sake.
6 Seeing it is Adonai, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of Adonai in the face of Yeshua the Messiah.
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of Adonai, and not from ourselves;
8 we are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair;
9 pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed;
10 always bearing about in the body the dying of Yeshua, that the life also of Yeshua may be manifested in our body.
11 For we who live are always delivered unto death for Yeshua's sake, that the life also of Yeshua may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
12 So then death works in us, but life in you.
13 But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, I believed, and therefore did I speak; we also believe, and therefore also we speak;
14 knowing that He that raised up the Master Yeshua shall raise up us also with Yeshua, and shall present us with you.
15 For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound unto the glory of Adonai.
16 Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
17 For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
18 while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Chapter 5
1 For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from Adonai, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.
2 For verily in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven:
3 if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
4 For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.
5 Now He that wrought us for this very thing is Adonai, who gave unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
6 Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Master
7 (for we walk by faith, not by sight);
8 we are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Master.
9 Wherefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well-pleasing unto Him.
10 For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Mashiyach; that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether it be good or bad.
11 Knowing therefore the fear of the Master, we persuade men, but we are made manifest unto Adonai; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences.
12 We are not again commending ourselves unto you, but speak as giving you occasion of glorying on our behalf, that you may have wherewith to answer them that glory in appearance, and not in heart.
13 For whether we are beside ourselves, it is unto Adonai; or whether we are of sober mind, it is unto you.
14 For the love of Mashiyach constrained us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;
15 and He died for all, that they who live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto Him who for their sakes died and rose again.
16 Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Mashiyach after the flesh, yet now we know Him so no more.
17 Wherefore if any man is in Mashiyach, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.
18 But all things are of Adonai, who reconciled us to Himself through Mashiyach, and gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation;
19 to wit, that Adonai was in Mashiyach reconciling the world unto Himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
20 We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Mashiyach, as though Adonai were entreating by us: we beseech you on behalf of Mashiyach, be you reconciled to Adonai.
21 Him who knew no sin He made to be sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of Adonai in Him.
Chapter 6
1 And working together with Him we entreat also that you receive not the grace of Adonai in vain
2 (for he said, At an acceptable time I hearkened unto you, And in a day of salvation did I strengthen you: behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation):
3 giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;
4 but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of Adonai, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
5 in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
6 in pureness, in knowledge, in long suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,
7 in the word of truth, in the power of Adonai; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
8 by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;
9 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
11 Our mouth is open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged.
12 You are not straitened in us, but you are straitened in your own affections.
13 Now for a recompense in like kind (I speak as unto my children), be you also enlarged.
14 Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what communion has light with darkness?
15 And what concord has Mashiyach with Belial? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?
16 And what agreement has a temple of Adonai with idols? For we are a temple of the living Adonai; even as Adonai said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their Father, and they shall be my people. [Leviticus 26:12]
17 Wherefore come you out from among them, and be you separate, says Adonai, and touch no unclean thing; and I will receive you,
18 and will be to you a Father, and you shall be to me sons and daughters, says Adonai Almighty.
Chapter 7
1 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of Adonai.
2 Open your hearts to us: we wronged no man, we corrupted no man, we took advantage of no man.
3 I say it not to condemn you: for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.
4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying on your behalf: I am filled with comfort, I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
5 For even when we were come into Macedonia our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.
6 Nevertheless He that comforts the lowly, even Adonai, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
7 and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort wherewith he was comforted in you, while he told us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced yet more.
8 For though I made you sorry with my epistle, I do not regret it: though I did regret it (for I see that that epistle made you sorry, though but for a season),
9 I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry unto repentance; for you were made sorry according to Adonai, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.
10 For sorrow by Adonai works repentance unto salvation, a repentance which brings no regret: but the sorrow of the world works death.
11 For behold, this selfsame thing, that you were made sorry according to Adonai, what earnest care it wrought in you, yea what clearing of yourselves, yea what indignation, yea what fear, yea what longing, yea what zeal, yea what avenging! In everything you approved yourselves to be pure in the matter.
12 So although I wrote unto you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest unto you in the sight of Adonai.
13 Therefore we have been comforted: And in our comfort we joyed the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.
14 For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.
15 And his affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling you received him.
16 I rejoice that in everything I am of good courage concerning you.
Chapter 8
1 Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of Adonai which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia;
2 how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
3 For according to their power, I bear witness, yea and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,
4 beseeching us with much entreaty in regard of this grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the saints:
5 and this, not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Master, and to us through the will of Adonai.
6 Insomuch that we exhorted Titus, that as he made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace also.
7 But as you abound in everything, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you abound in this grace also.
8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
9 For you know the grace of our Master Yeshua the Messiah, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.
10 And herein I give my judgment: for this is expedient for you, who were the first to make a beginning a year ago, not only to do, but also to will.
11 But now complete the doing also; that as there was the readiness to will, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.
12 For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according as a man has, not according as he has not.
13 For I say this not that others may be eased and you distressed;
14 but by equality: your abundance being a supply at this present time for their want, that their abundance also may become a supply for your want; that there may be equality:
15 as it is written, He that gathered much had nothing over; and he that gathered little had no lack.
16 But thanks be to Adonai, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.
17 For he accepted indeed our exhortation; but being himself very earnest, he went forth unto you of his own accord.
18 And we have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the evangel is spread through all the assemblies;
19 and not only so, but who was also appointed by the assemblies to travel with us in the matter of this grace, which is ministered by us to the glory of the Master, and to show our readiness:
20 Avoiding this, that any man should blame us in the matter of this bounty which is ministered by us:
21 for we take thought for things honorable, not only in the sight of Adonai, but also in the sight of men.
22 and we have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.
23 Whether any inquire about Titus, he is my partner and my fellow-worker to you-ward, or our brethren, they are the messengers of the assemblies, they are the glory of Mashiyach.
24 Show you therefore unto them in the face of the assemblies the proof of your love, and of our glorying on your behalf.
Chapter 9
1 For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:
2 for I know your readiness, of which I glory on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past; and your zeal has stirred up very many of them.
3 But I have sent the brethren, that our glorying on your behalf may not be made void in this respect; that, even as I said, you may be prepared:
4 lest by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, you) should be put to shame in this confidence.
5 I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your aforepromised bounty, that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion.
6 But this I say, He that sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that sows bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
7 Let each man do according as he has purposed in his heart: not grudgingly, or of necessity: for Adonai loves a cheerful giver.
8 And Adonai is able to make all grace abound unto you; that you, having always all sufficiency in everything, may abound unto every good work:
9 as it is written, He has scattered abroad, He has given to the poor; His righteousness abides forever.
10 And He that supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, shall supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness:
11 you being enriched in everything unto all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to Adonai.
12 For the ministration of this service not only fills up the measure of the wants of the saints, but abounds also through many thanksgivings unto Adonai;
13 seeing that through the proving of you by this ministration they glorify Adonai for the obedience of your confession unto the evangel of Mashiyach, and for the liberality of your contribution unto them and unto all;
14 while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, long after you by reason of the exceeding grace of Adonai in you.
15 Thanks be to Adonai for His unspeakable gift.
Chapter 10
1 Now I Paul myself entreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Mashiyach, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am of good courage toward you:
2 yea, I beseech you, that I may not when present show courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, who count of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh
4 (for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before Adonai to the casting down of strongholds),
5 casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of Adonai, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Mashiyach;
6 and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be made full.
7 You look at the things that are before your face. If any man trusts in himself that he is Mashiyach's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Mashiyach's, so also are we.
8 For though I should glory somewhat abundantly concerning our authority (which the Master gave for building you up, and not for casting you down), I shall not be put to shame:
9 that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.
10 For, his letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.
11 Let such a one reckon this, that, what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.
12 For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.
13 But we will not glory beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the province which Adonai apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even unto you.
14 For we stretch not ourselves overmuch, as though we reached not unto you: for we came even as far as unto you in the evangel of Mashiyach:
15 not glorying beyond our measure, that is, in other men's labors; but having hope that, as your faith grows, we shall be magnified in you according to our province unto further abundance,
16 so as to preach the evangel even unto the parts beyond you, and not to glory in another's province in regard of things ready to our hand.
17 But he that glories, let him glory in Adonai.
18 For he that commends himself is not approved, but whom Adonai commends.
Chapter 11
1 Would that you could bear with me in a little foolishness: but indeed you do bear with me.
2 For I am jealous over you with a jealousy of Adonai: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Mashiyach.
3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Mashiyach.
4 For if he that comes preaches another Yeshua, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different evangel, which you did not accept, you do well to bear with him.
5 For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
6 But though I be rude in speech, yet am I not in knowledge; nay, in every way have we made this manifest unto you in all things.
7 Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you the evangel of Adonai for nought?
8 I robbed other assemblies, taking wages of them that I might minister unto you;
9 and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
10 As the truth of Mashiyach is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia.
11 Wherefore? Because I love you not? Adonai knows.
12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Mashiyach.
14 And no marvel; for even Satan fashions himself into a malak of light.
15 It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.
16 I say again, let no man think me foolish; but if you do, yet as foolish receive me, that I also may glory a little.
17 That which I speak, I speak not after Adonai, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of glorying.
18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
19 For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise yourselves. For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he smites you on the face.
21 I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Yisrayahites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.
23 Are they ministers of Mashiyach? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
24 Of the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep;
26 in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my countrymen, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
28 Besides those things that are without, there is that which presses upon me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies.
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I burn not?
30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness.
31 Adonai the Father of the Master Yeshua, He who is blessed for evermore, knows that I lie not.
32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes in order to take me:
33 and through a window was I let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.
Chapter 12
1 I must needs glory, though it is not expedient; but I will come to visions and revelations of Adonai.
2 I know a man in Mashiyach, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not; or whether out of the body, I know not; Adonai knows), such a one caught up even to the third heaven.
3 And I know such a man (whether in the body, or apart from the body, I know not; Adonai knows),
4 how that he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
5 On behalf of such a one will I glory: but on my own behalf I will not glory, save in my weaknesses.
6 For if I should desire to glory, I shall not be foolish; for I shall speak the truth: but I forbear, lest any man should account of me above that which he sees me to be, or hears from me.
7 And by reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I should not be exalted overmuch.
8 Concerning this thing I besought the Master thrice, that it might depart from me.
9 And He has said unto me, My grace is sufficient for you: for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Mashiyach may rest upon me.
10 Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Mashiyach's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
11 I am become foolish: you compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.
12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, by signs and wonders and mighty works.
13 For what is there wherein you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, except it be that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.
14 Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
15 And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
16 But be it so, I did not myself burden you; but, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
17 Did I take advantage of you by any one of them whom I have sent unto you?
18 I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Walked we not in the same spirit? Walked we not in the same steps?
19 You think all this time that we are excusing ourselves unto you. In the sight of Adonai speak we in Mashiyach. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.
20 For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as you would not; lest by any means there should be strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;
21 lest again when I come my Father should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed.
Chapter 13
1 This is the third time I am coming to you. At the mouth of two witnesses or three shall every word established.
2 I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, to them that have sinned heretofore, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;
3 seeing that you seek a proof of Mashiyach that speaks in me; who to you-ward is not weak, but is powerful in you:
4 for He was impaled through weakness, yet He lives through the power of Adonai. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him through the power of Adonai toward you.
5 Try your own selves, whether you are in the faith; prove your own selves. Or know you not as to your own selves, that Yeshua Ha Mashiyach is in you? Unless indeed you be reprobate.
6 But I hope that you shall know that we are not reprobate.
7 Now we pray to Adonai that you do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is honorable, though we be as reprobate.
8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
9 For we rejoice, when we are weak, and you are strong: this we also pray for, even your perfecting.
10 For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not when present deal sharply, according to the authority which the Master gave me for building up, and not for casting down.
11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfected; be comforted; be of the same mind; live in peace: and the Father of love and peace shall be with you.
12 Salute one another with a holy kiss.
13 All the saints salute you.
14 The grace of the Master Yeshua the Messiah, and the love of Adonai, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.
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