Chapter 11

¹I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness; but indeed you are bearing with me.

¹但願你們寬容我這一點愚妄，其實你們原是寬容我的。

²For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you [as] a pure virgin.

²我為你們起的憤恨，原是神那樣的憤恨。因為我曾把你們許配一個丈夫，要把你們如同貞潔的童女，獻給基督。

³But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity [of devotion] to Christ.

³我只怕你們的心或偏於邪，失去那向基督所存純一清潔的心，就像蛇用詭詐誘惑了夏娃一樣。

⁴For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you bear [this] beautifully.

⁴假如有人來另傳一個耶穌，不是我們所傳過的；或者你們另受一個靈，不是你們所受過的；或者另得一個福音，不是你們所得過的；你們容讓他也就罷了。

⁵For I consider myself not in the least inferior to the most eminent apostles.

⁵但我想，我一點不在那些最大的使徒以下。

⁶But even if I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not [so] in knowledge; in fact, in every way we have made [this] evident to you in all things.

⁶我的言語雖然粗俗，我的知識卻不粗俗。這是我們在凡事上向你們眾人顯明出來的。

⁷Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge?

⁷我因為白白傳神的福音給你們，就自居卑微，叫你們高升，這算是我犯罪麼？

⁸I robbed other churches by taking wages [from] [them] to serve you;

⁸我虧負了別的教會，向他們取了工價來給你們效力。

⁹and when I was present with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for when the brethren came from Macedonia they fully supplied my need, and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will continue to do so.

⁹我在你們那裡缺乏的時候，並沒有累著你們一個人；因我所缺乏的，那從馬其頓來的弟兄們都補足了。我向來凡事謹守，後來也必謹守，總不至於累著你們。

¹⁰As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.

¹⁰既有基督的誠實在我裡面，就無人能在亞該亞一帶地方阻擋我這自誇。

¹¹Why? Because I do not love you? God knows [I do]!

¹¹為甚麼呢？是因我不愛你們麼？這有神知道。

¹²But what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the matter about which they are boasting.

¹²我現在所做的，後來還要做，為要斷絕那些尋機會人的機會，使他們在所誇的事上也不過與我們一樣。

¹³For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

¹³那等人是假使徒，行事詭詐，裝作基督使徒的模樣。

¹⁴No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.

¹⁴這也不足為怪，因為連撒但也裝作光明的天使。

¹⁵Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds.

¹⁵所以他的差役，若裝作仁義的差役，也不算希奇。他們的結局必然照著他們的行為。

¹⁶Again I say, let no one think me foolish; but if [you do], receive me even as foolish, so that I also may boast a little.

¹⁶我再說，人不可把我看作愚妄的。縱然如此，也要把我當作愚妄人接納，叫我可以略略自誇。

¹⁷What I am saying, I am not saying as the Lord would, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

¹⁷我說的話不是奉主命說的，乃是像愚妄人放膽自誇；

¹⁸Since many boast according to the flesh, I will boast also.

¹⁸既有好些人憑著血氣自誇，我也要自誇了。

¹⁹For you, being [so] wise, tolerate the foolish gladly.

¹⁹你們既是精明人，就能甘心忍耐愚妄人。

²⁰For you tolerate it if anyone enslaves you, anyone devours you, anyone takes advantage of you, anyone exalts himself, anyone hits you in the face.

²⁰假若有人強你們作奴僕，或侵吞你們，或擄掠你們，或侮慢你們，或打你們的臉，你們都能忍耐他。

²¹To [my] shame I [must] say that we have been weak [by comparison]. But in whatever respect anyone [else] is bold-- I speak in foolishness-- I am just as bold myself.

²¹我說這話是羞辱自己，好像我們從前是軟弱的。然而，人在何事上勇敢，（我說句愚妄話，）我也勇敢。

²²Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.

²²他們是希伯來人麼？我也是。他們是以色列人麼？我也是。他們是亞伯拉罕的後裔麼？我也是。

²³Are they servants of Christ?-- I speak as if insane-- I more so; in far more labors, in far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, often in danger of death.

²³他們是基督的僕人麼？（我說句狂話，）我更是。我比他們多受勞苦，多下監牢，受鞭打是過重的，冒死是屢次有的。

²⁴Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine [lashes].

²⁴被猶太人鞭打五次，每次四十減去一下；

²⁵Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent in the deep.

²⁵被棍打了三次；被石頭打了一次，遇著船壞三次，一晝一夜在深海裡。

²⁶[I have been] on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from [my] countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers on the sea, dangers among false brethren;

²⁶又屢次行遠路，遭江河的危險、盜賊的危險，同族的危險、外邦人的危險、城裡的危險、曠野的危險、海中的危險、假弟兄的危險。

²⁷[I have been] in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.

²⁷受勞碌、受困苦，多次不得睡，又飢又渴，多次不得食，受寒冷，赤身露體。

²⁸Apart from [such] external things, there is the daily pressure on me [of] concern for all the churches.

²⁸除了這外面的事，還有為眾教會掛心的事，天天壓在我身上。

²⁹Who is weak without my being weak? Who is led into sin without my intense concern?

²⁹有誰軟弱，我不軟弱呢？有誰跌倒，我不焦急呢？

³⁰If I have to boast, I will boast of what pertains to my weakness.

³⁰我若必須自誇，就誇那關乎我軟弱的事便了。

³¹The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.

³¹那永遠可稱頌之主耶穌的父神知道我不說謊。

³²In Damascus the ethnarch under Aretas the king was guarding the city of the Damascenes in order to seize me,

³²在大馬色亞哩達王手下的提督把守大馬色城，要捉拿我，

³³and I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and [so] escaped his hands.

³³我就從窗戶中，在筐子裡，從城牆上被人縋下去，脫離了他的手。