Study Desk

For it is not he who glorifieth himself who is approved, but he who is glorified of the Lord.

Nevertheless tolerate me, for I am zealous towards you with the zeal of Aloha; for I have betrothed you to one man, a pure virgin, whom I would bring unto the Meshiha.

For if he who hath come to you shall preach to you another Jeshu, whom we have not preached, or you receive another Spirit which you have not received or another gospel which you have not accepted, you would have been well persuaded.

For I consider that I am nothing inferior to those apostles who are most excellent.

For if I am rude in my speech, I yet am not in my knowledge; but in every thing we are manifest among you.

And other churches have I despoiled, receiving of them expenses, for your service.

And being come among you, I burdened no man of you; for my want the brethren who came from Makedunia supplied: and in every thing have I kept myself, and will keep, that I may not be burdensome to you.

For these are apostles of falsehood and workers of deceits, assimilating themselves to the apostles of the Meshiha.

For you are content to listen to the feebleminded, you yourselves being wise.

20 For you are ruled [fn] by one who subjugates you, and by one who devours you, and by one who takes away from you, and by one who exalts himself over you, and by one who smites you on your faces!

besides the aboundings and the gathering which are upon me daily even my care which is for all the churches.

Aloha, the Father of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, the Blessed for ever and ever, knoweth that I lie not.

I might boast, but it is not expedient; for I come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

-and he was rapt into paradise, and heard words which are not uttered, those which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

Yet if I willed to boast, I should not be a fool, for I say the truth; but I spare, lest any one think of me beyond that which he seeth me (to be), and what he heareth of me.

And he said to me, My grace sufficeth thee; for my power in weakness is perfected. Gladly therefore will I boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Meshiha may overshadow me.

For this cause I am willing in infirmities, in reviling, in affliction, in persecutions, in distresses, for the sake of the Meshiha; for when I am weak, then am I strong.

Behold, I have been deficient in mind in my boasting, because you have constrained me; for you were debtors to bear witness concerning me; because in nothing am I less than those apostles who are the most eminent, nevertheless I am not any thing.

For in what have you been less than the other churches, except in this, that I have not burdened you? Forgive me this offence.

Behold, this is three times that I prepare to come to you, and not to burden you; for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up treasures for the parents, but the parents for their children.