¹O kad biste podnijeli nešto malo bezumlja mojega! Da, podnesite me!

¹Would that ye would bear with me [in] a little folly; but indeed bear with me.

²Ljubomoran sam doista na vas Božjim ljubomorom: ta zaručih vas s jednim mužem, kao čistu djevicu privedoh vas Kristu.

²For I am jealous as to you with a jealousy [which is] of God; for I have espoused you unto one man, to present [you] a chaste virgin to Christ.

³Ali se bojim da se - kao što zmija zavede Evu svojom lukavštinom - misli vaše ne pokvare i odmetnu od iskrenosti prema Kristu.

³But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craft, [so] your thoughts should be corrupted from simplicity as to the Christ.

⁴Uistinu, ako tko dođe i propovijeda drugog Isusa, kojega mi nismo propovijedali - ili ako drugoga Duha primate, kojega niste primili; ili drugo evanđelje, koje niste prigrlili - takva lijepo podnosÄite.

⁴For if indeed he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or ye get a different Spirit, which ye have not got, or a different glad tidings, which ye have not received, ye might well bear with [it].

⁵Smatram, eto, da ni u čemu nisam manji od "nadapostola".

⁵For I reckon that in nothing I am behind those who are in surpassing degree apostles.

⁶Jer ako sam i nevješt u govoru, nisam u znanju; naprotiv, u svemu vam ga i pred svima očitovasmo.

⁶But if [I am] a simple person in speech, yet not in knowledge, but in everything making [the truth] manifest in all things to you.

⁷Ili sam grijeh počinio što sam vam - ponizujući sebe da se vi uzvisite - besplatno navješćivao Božje evanđelje?

⁷Have I committed sin, abasing myself in order that *ye* might be exalted, because I gratuitously announced to you the glad tidings of God?

⁸Druge sam crkve plijenio, od njih primao potporu da bih mogao vama služiti. I dok bijah u vas, premda u oskudici, nikomu nisam bio na teret.

⁸I spoiled other assemblies, receiving hire for ministry towards you.

⁹U oskudici su mi pomogla braća koja dođoše iz Makedonije. U svemu sam se čuvao da vam ne budem težak, a i čuvat ću se.

⁹And being present with you and lacking, I did not lazily burden any one, (for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied what I lacked,) and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will keep myself.

¹⁰Istine mi Kristove u meni, ove mi hvale nitko neće oduzeti u ahajskim krajevima.

¹⁰[The] truth of Christ is in me that this boasting shall not be stopped as to me in the regions of Achaia.

¹¹Zašto? Jer vas ne ljubim? Bog znade!

¹¹Why? because I do not love you? God knows.

¹²A što činim, i dalje ću činiti da izbijem izliku onima koji izliku traže ne bi li se s nama izjednačili u onom čime se hvastaju.

¹²But what I do, I will also do, that I may cut off the opportunity of those wishing [for] an opportunity, that wherein they boast they may be found even as we.

¹³Jer takvi su ljudi lažni apostoli, himbeni radnici, prerušuju se u apostole Kristove.

¹³For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.

¹⁴I nikakvo čudo! Ta sam se Sotona prerušuje u anđela svjetla.

¹⁴And [it is] not wonderful, for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.

¹⁵Ništa osobito dakle ako se i službenici njegovi prerušuju u službenike pravednosti. Svršetak će im biti po djelima njihovim.

¹⁵It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

¹⁶Opet velim: da me tko ne bi smatrao bezumnim! Uostalom, primite me makar i kao bezumna da se i ja nešto malo pohvalim.

¹⁶Again I say, Let not any one think me to be a fool; but if otherwise, receive me then even as a fool, that *I* also may boast myself some little.

¹⁷Što govorim, ne govorim po Gospodnju, nego kao u bezumlju, u ovoj hvalisavoj smionosti.

¹⁷What I speak I do not speak according to [the] Lord, but as in folly, in this confidence of boasting.

¹⁸Budući da se mnogi hvale po ljudsku, i ja ću se hvaliti.

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

¹⁹Ta rado podnosÄite bezumne, vi umni!

¹⁹For ye bear fools readily, being wise.

²⁰Da, podnosÄite ako vas tko zarobljava, ako vas tko proždire, ako tko otima, ako se tko uznosi, ako vas tko po obrazu bije.

²⁰For ye bear if any one bring you into bondage, if any one devour [you], if any one get [your money], if any one exalt himself, if any one beat you on the face.

²¹Na sramotu govorim: bili smo, biva, slabi! Ipak, čime se god tko osmjeljuje - u bezumlju govorim - osmjeljujem se i ja!

²¹I speak as to dishonour, as though *we* had been weak; but wherein any one is daring, (I speak in folly,) *I* also am daring.

²²Hebreji su? I ja sam! Izraelci su? I ja sam! Potomstvo su Abrahamovo? I ja sam!

²²Are they Hebrews? *I* also. Are they Israelites? *I* also. Are they seed of Abraham? *I* also.

²³Poslužitelji su Kristovi? Kao mahnit govorim: ja još više! U naporima - preobilno; u tamnicama - preobilno; u batinama - prekomjerno; u smrtnim pogiblima - često.

²³Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as being beside myself) *I* above measure [so]; in labours exceedingly abundant, in stripes to excess, in prisons exceedingly abundant, in deaths oft.

²⁴Od Židova primio sam pet puta po četrdeset manje jednu.

²⁴From the Jews five times have I received forty [stripes], save one.

²⁵Triput sam bio šiban, jednom kamenovan, triput doživio brodolom, jednu noć i dan proveo sam u bezdanu.

²⁵Thrice have I been scourged, once I have been stoned, three times I have suffered shipwreck, a night and day I passed in the deep:

²⁶Česta putovanja, pogibli od rijeka, pogibli od razbojnika, pogibli od sunarodnjaka, pogibli od pogana, pogibli u gradu, pogibli u pustinji, pogibli na moru, pogibli od lažne braće;

²⁶in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from [my own] race, in perils from [the] nations, in perils in [the] city, in perils in [the] desert, in perils on [the] sea, in perils among false brethren;

²⁷u trudu i naporu, često u nespavanju, u gladu i žeđi, često u postovima, u studeni i golotinji!

²⁷in labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

²⁸Osim toga, uz drugo, salijetanje svakodnevno, briga za sve crkve.

²⁸Besides those things that are without, the crowd [of cares] pressing on me daily, the burden of all the assemblies.

²⁹Tko je slab, a ja da ne budem slab? Tko se sablažnjuje, a ja da ne izgaram?

²⁹Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I burn not?

³⁰Treba li se hvaliti, svojom ću se slabošću hvaliti.

³⁰If it is needful to boast, I will boast in the things which concern my infirmity.

³¹Bog i Otac Gospodina Isusa, blagoslovljen u vijeke, zna da ne lažem.

³¹The God and Father of the Lord Jesus knows -- he who is blessed for ever -- that I do not lie.

³²U Damasku namjesnik kralja Arete čuvaše grad damaščanski hoteći me uhvatiti.

³²In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes shut up, wishing to take me;

³³Ali kroz prozor spustiše me u košari preko zida te umakoh njegovim rukama.

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