1Ah ! A lukan aț-țqeblem kra n timmuhbelt si lǧiha-w ! Lameɛna qeblet-eț kan !
1Would that ye would bear with me [in] a little folly; but indeed bear with me.
2Imi i kkun-ḥemmleɣ, țțasmeɣ fell-awen s tismin i d-yekkan s ɣuṛ Sidi Ṛebbi ; axaṭer xeḍbeɣ-kkun i yiwen n yesli kan : d Lmasiḥ ; iwakken a kkun-qeddmeɣ ɣuṛ-es am tlemẓit leɛmeṛ nezwiǧ leɛmeṛ.
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.
3Uggadeɣ a wen-sxeṛben ixemmimen nwen, aț-țettixṛem i neyya d ṣṣfa n wul-nwen di Lmasiḥ, aț-țedṛu yid-wen am ?ewwa i gexdeɛ wezrem s tḥila-ines.
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.
4Amek armi tḥessem i wid i wen-ibeccṛen Ɛisa nniḍen ur nelli d win akken i wen-nbecceṛ nukni ; amek tqeblem ṛṛuḥ iqedsen nniḍen ur nelli ara d win s wayes i tesṭerḥbem di tazwara neɣ lexbaṛ n lxiṛ nniḍen ixulfen win akken i wen-nbecceṛ ?
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].
5Akken walaɣ, ṛṛusul-nni i tḥesbem d imeqqranen ur iyi-yifen deg wacemma.
5For I reckon that in nothing I am behind those who are in surpassing degree apostles.
6?as akken ur ssineɣ ara ad mmeslayeɣ, lameɛna ssneɣ Sidi Ṛebbi akken ilaq yerna nbeggen awen-t-id acḥal n tikkal di mkul lḥaǧa !
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.
7Asmi i wen-beccṛeɣ lexbaṛ n lxiṛ n Lmasiḥ, eɛni ḍelmeɣ mi ssanzeɣ iman-iw iwakken a kkun ssaɛliɣ kunwi ?
7Have I committed sin, abasing myself in order that *ye* might be exalted, because I gratuitously announced to you the glad tidings of God?
8Ɛerraɣ tijmuyaɛ nniḍen imi i yi-d-țceggiɛen idrimen iwakken ad qedceɣ fell-awen.
8I spoiled other assemblies, receiving hire for ministry towards you.
9Asmi lliɣ ɣuṛ-wen, ɣas akken xuṣṣeɣ ur lliɣ ț-țaɛkumt ɣef yiwen, axaṭer atmaten i d-yusan si tmurt n Masidunya fkan-iyi-d ayen akk i ḥwaǧeɣ. Di yal lḥaǧa, ḥudreɣ iman-iw iwakken ur țțiliɣ ara ț-țaɛekkumt fell-awen, yerna mazal ad ḥadreɣ iman-iw.
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.
10S tideț n Lmasiḥ yellan deg-i, a d-iniɣ : yiwen ur iyi-tekkes sebba agi n zzux i sɛiɣ di tmura n Akaya.
10[The] truth of Christ is in me that this boasting shall not be stopped as to me in the regions of Achaia.
11Acuɣeṛ ? Eɛni ur teɛzizem ara fell-i ? Atan Sidi Ṛebbi yezṛa !
11Why? because I do not love you? God knows.
12Ayen akka xeddmeɣ, mazal a t-xedmeɣ iwakken ur sen-țaǧǧaɣ ara abrid i wid yebɣan ad zuxxen belli xeddmen am nukni.
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.
13Imdanen-agi, d ṛṛusul n lekdeb, d ixeddaɛen, țțaran iman-nsen d imceggɛen n Lmasiḥ.
13For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.
14Annect-a mačči d ayen issewhamen, imi ula d Cciṭan yezmer ad yerr iman-is d lmelk yețfeǧǧiǧen am tafat.
14And [it is] not wonderful, for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.
15Ihi daɣen, mačči d ayen yessewhamen ma yella iqeddacen-is țțaran iman-nsen d iqeddacen n webrid n lḥeqq ; lameɛna taggara-nsen aț-țili akken llan lecɣal nsen.
15It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
16A t-id-ɛiwdeɣ, ɣuṛ-wat a yi tḥesbem d amehbul ; neɣ qeblet-iyi am akken d amehbul iwakken ula d nekk ad zuxxeɣ cwiṭ.
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.
17Ayen akka ara d-iniɣ, mačči s ɣuṛ Ṛebbi i d-yekka lameɛna a d-hedṛeɣ s timmuhbelt, yerna țekleɣ axaṭer sɛiɣ ayen s wayes ara zuxxeɣ.
17What I speak I do not speak according to [the] Lord, but as in folly, in this confidence of boasting.
18Imi aṭas i gețzuxxun s lɛeqliya n ddunit-agi, ula d nekk ad zuxxeɣ.
18Since many boast according to flesh, *I* also will boast.
19Axaṭer tṣebṛem i yimehbal kunwi yesɛan leɛqel !
19For ye bear fools readily, being wise.
20?as akken ḥesben-kkun am aklan, ččan lḥeqq-nwen, ɛerran-kkun, bbehdlen-kkun, ḥeqṛen-kkun, meɛna tṣebṛem-asen.
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.
21Ssetḥaɣ a t-id-iniɣ meɛna a t-id iniɣ : nukni ur nezmir ara a nexdem akka, meɛna s timmuhbelt zemreɣ a d-iniɣ : ma yella win yesɛan sebba s wayes ara izuxx, ula d nekk ad zuxxeɣ :
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.
22d iɛebṛaniyen i llan ? Ula d nekk d aɛibṛani ; seg wat Isṛail i llan ? Ula d nekk n wat Isṛail ; ț-țarwa n Sidna Ibṛahim ? Ula d nekk si tarwa-s ;
22Are they Hebrews? *I* also. Are they Israelites? *I* also. Are they seed of Abraham? *I* also.
23d iqeddacen n Lmasiḥ i llan ? ?ef wannect-agi daɣen a d hedṛeɣ am umdan yeffeɣ leɛqel : nekk ugareɣ-ten s waṭas, xedmeɣ akteṛ-nsen, kecmeɣ leḥbus acḥal n tikkal, țewwteɣ akteṛ-nsen, acḥal d abrid i wwḍeɣ ɣer lmut !
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.
24Xemsa yiberdan i ččiɣ tiyita s ɣuṛ wudayen ; mkul tikkelt s ṛebɛin tiyita ɣiṛ yiwet ;
24From the Jews five times have I received forty [stripes], save one.
25tlata iberdan i yi-wten iṛumaniyen s ujelkaḍ ; yiwen webrid qṛib i yi-nɣan s weṛjam ; ɣeṛqeɣ tlata iberdan di lebḥeṛ, sɛeddaɣ yiwen wass d yiwen yiḍ deg waman.
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:
26Mmugreɣ-ed acḥal n wuguren m'ara tsafaṛeɣ : isaffen iweɛṛen, imakaren deg iberdan, lxuf di temdinin, deg imukan yexlan, m'ara zegreɣ i lebḥuṛ ; lxuf ger wat n tmurt-iw akk-d wid ur numin ara s Ṛebbi, lxuf ger watmaten n lekdeb.
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;
27Xedmeɣ yerna nneɛtabeɣ aṭas, acḥal d abrid țțuẓumeɣ, zgiɣ deg uɛawez, di laẓ akk-d fad, deg usemmiḍ akk-d ɛerru.
27in labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
28Mbla ma nniɣ-ed ayen nniḍen : aḥebbeṛ yal ass ɣef tejmuyaɛ n watmaten,
28Besides those things that are without, the crowd [of cares] pressing on me daily, the burden of all the assemblies.
29anwa i gfeclen di liman ur iyi-issefcel ara ? Anwa i geɣlin di ddnub ur tecɛil deg-i tmes ?
29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I burn not?
30Ma ilaq ad zuxxeɣ, ad zuxxeɣ s wayen i d-ițbegginen belli ur sɛiɣ ara tazmert.
30If it is needful to boast, I will boast in the things which concern my infirmity.
31Sidi Ṛebbi yellan d baba-s n Ssid-nneɣ Ɛisa Lmasiḥ, yețțubarken i dayem, yeẓra belli ur skiddibeɣ ara !
31The God and Father of the Lord Jesus knows -- he who is blessed for ever -- that I do not lie.
32Di temdint n Dimecq, ameqqran n ineɣlafen n ugellid Ariṭas yesbedd taɛessast ɣef tewwurt n temdint iwakken a yi-ṭṭfen,
32In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes shut up, wishing to take me;
33lameɛna ṣubben iyi-d si ṭṭaq, zdaxel uḍellaɛ, lḥiḍ lḥiḍ ; s wakka i d-menɛeɣ seg ifassen-is.
33and through a window in a basket I was let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.