Chapter 11
WOULD to Yah you could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
2 For I am jealous over you with Yah’ely jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste bethulah to the Anointing of the Spirit of Yah.
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 the Anointing of the Spirit of Yah.
4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Yahooshua, whom we have not preached, or if you receive another spirit, which you have not received, or another Good News, which you have not accepted, you might well bear with him.
5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest Emissaries.
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 you might be exalted, because I have preached to you the Good News of Yah freely?
8 I robbed other assemblies, 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 Makedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so will I keep myself.
10 As the truth of the Anointing of the Spirit of Yah is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
11 Wherefore? because I Chesed you not? Yah knows.
12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they Kavod, they may be found even as we.
13 For such are false Emissaries, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the Emissaries of the Anointing of the Spirit of Yah.
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into a messenger 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 Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
18 Seeing that many Kavod after the flesh, I will Kavod also.
19 For you permit fools gladly, seeing you yourselves are wise.
20 For you permit, 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 Yisra’Elites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
23 Are they ministers of the Anointing of the Spirit of Yah? (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 Yahoodi’iy 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 assemblies.
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
30 If I must needs Kavod, I will Kavod of the things which concern mine infirmities.
31 The Mighty One and Father of our Adonay Yahooshua the Anointed One of Yah, which is blessed for evermore, knows that I lie not.
32 In Dammeseq 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.