¹It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

¹Hvaliti se mi je treba, dasi nič ne koristi; pridem pa zdaj do prikazni in razodetij Gospodovih.

²I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

²Poznam človeka v Kristusu, ki je bil pred štirinajstimi leti (ali v telesu, ne vem, ali izven telesa, ne vem; Bog ve), vzet tja v tretja nebesa.

³And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)

³In poznam takega človeka (ali v telesu, ali izven telesa, ne vem; Bog ve),

⁴How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

⁴da je bil vzet v raj in je slišal neizrečne besede, katerih ne sme človek govoriti.

⁵Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.

⁵S takim se bom hvalil, sam s seboj se pa ne bom hvalil, razen s slabostmi svojimi.

⁶For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.

⁶Kajti ko bi se hotel pohvaliti, ne bi bil nespameten, ker bi govoril resnico; zdržim se pa, da ne bi kdo več o meni mislil, nego kar vidi na meni ali kar sliši od mene.

⁷And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

⁷In zavoljo visokih razodetij, da bi se ne prevzel, mi je dan trn v meso, angel satanov, da me za uho bije, da se ne prevzamem.

⁸For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

⁸Zavoljo tega sem trikrat prosil Gospoda, da bi odstopil od mene,

⁹And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

⁹a dejal mi je: Dosti ti je moja milost; zakaj moč moja se v slabosti izkazuje popolna. Torej se bom najrajši hvalil s slabostmi svojimi, da se ušatori nad mano moč Kristusova.

¹⁰Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

¹⁰Zato sem dobre volje v slabostih, v zasramovanju, v potrebah, v preganjanju, v težavah, za Kristusa; zakaj kadar sem slab, tedaj sem močan.

¹¹I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

¹¹Postal sem nespameten, hvaleč se; vi ste me prisilili. Kajti mene bi bili morali vi hvaliti, ker nisem bil nič manjši od onih prevelikih apostolov, čeprav nisem nič.

¹²Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

¹²Saj so se znamenja apostola godila med vami v vsem potrpljenju, v znamenjih in čudežih in močeh.

¹³For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.

¹³Kaj namreč je, v čemer ste bili prikrajšani nasproti drugim cerkvam, razen le, da vas jaz sam nisem nadlegoval? Odpustite mi to krivico!

¹⁴Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not your's but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

¹⁴Glej, tretjič sem pripravljen priti k vam in ne bom vas nadlegoval; kajti ne iščem, kar je vašega, marveč vas. Niso namreč otroci dolžni roditeljem zakladov zbirati, ampak roditelji otrokom.

¹⁵And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

¹⁵A jaz prav rad potrošim vse in sebe žrtvujem za duše vaše. Če vas obilneje ljubim, me li tem manj ljubite?

¹⁶But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

¹⁶Ali naj bo, jaz vam nisem bil nadležen; toda ‚zvit človek sem vas z zvijačo pridobil‘.

¹⁷Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?

¹⁷Sem li vas mar opeharil po katerem teh, ki sem jih k vam poslal?

¹⁸I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?

¹⁸Naprosil sem Tita in ž njim poslal brata: ali vas je mar Tit opeharil? Nismo li v enem Duhu hodili? ne po enih stopinjah?

¹⁹Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.

¹⁹Ves ta čas mislite, da se vam zagovarjamo. Pred Bogom v Kristusu govorimo, a vse to, ljubljeni, da pospešimo vaš napredek.

²⁰For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

²⁰Kajti bojim se, da vas morda, kadar pridem, ne najdem takih, kakršne hočem, in da mene najdete takega, kakršnega nočete; da morda bodo med vami prepiri, zavist, srd, svade, opravljanje, prišeptavanje, hujskanje, neredi;da me, ko zopet pridem, poniža Bog moj pri vas in da se bom žalostil zaradi mnogih, ki so prej grešili in se niso kesali za nečistost in nesramnost in pohotnost, ki so jo počeli.

²¹And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

²¹da me, ko zopet pridem, poniža Bog moj pri vas in da se bom žalostil zaradi mnogih, ki so prej grešili in se niso kesali za nečistost in nesramnost in pohotnost, ki so jo počeli.