2 Corintios 11
Diodati 1885
1OH quanto desidererei che voi comportaste un poco la mia follia! ma sì, comportatemi.
2Poichè io son geloso di voi d'una gelosia di Dio; perciocchè io vi ho sposati ad un marito, per presentare una casta vergine a Cristo.
3Ma io temo che come il serpente sedusse Eva, con la sua astuzia; così talora le vostre menti non sieno corrotte, e sviate dalla semplicità che deve essere inverso Cristo.
4Perciocchè se uno viene a voi a predicarvi un altro Gesù che noi non abbiam predicato, o se voi da esso ricevete un altro Spirito che non avete ricevuto, o un vangelo diverso da quello che avete accettato; voi lo tollerate.
5Or io stimo di non essere stato da niente meno di cotesti apostoli sommi.
6Che se pur sono idiota nel parlare, non lo son già nella conoscenza; anzi, del tutto siamo stati manifestati presso voi in ogni cosa.
7Ho io commesso peccato, in ciò che mi sono abbassato me stesso, acciocchè voi foste innalzati? inquanto che gratuitamente vi ho evangelizzato l'evangelo di Dio?
8Io ho predate le altre chiese, prendendo salario per servire a voi.
9Ed anche, essendo appresso di voi, ed avendo bisogno, non sono stato grave ad alcuno; perciocchè i fratelli, venuti di Macedonia, hanno supplito al mio bisogno; ed in ogni cosa mi son conservato senza esservi grave, ed anche per l'avvenire mi conserverò.
10La verità di Cristo è in me, che questo vanto non sarà turato in me nelle contrade dell'Acaia.
11Perchè? forse perciocchè io non v'amo? Iddio lo sa.
12Anzi ciò che io fo, lo farò ancora, per toglier l'occasione a coloro che desiderano occasione; acciocchè in ciò che si gloriano sieno trovati quali noi ancora.
13Perciocchè tali falsi apostolisono operai frodolenti, trasformandosi in apostoli di Cristo.
14E non è maraviglia; perciocchè Satana stesso si trasforma in angelo di luce.
15Ei non è dunque gran cosa, se i suoi ministri ancora si trasformano in ministri di giustizia; de' quali la fine sarà secondo le loro opere.
16IO lo dico di nuovo: Niuno mi stimi esser pazzo; se no, ricevetemi eziandio come pazzo; acciocchè io ancora mi glorii un poco.
17Ciò ch'io ragiono in questa ferma confidanza di vanto, non lo ragiono secondo il Signore, ma come in pazzia.
18Poichè molti si gloriano secondo la carne, io ancora mi glorierò.
19Poichè voi, così savi, volentieri comportate i pazzi.
20Perciocchè, se alcuno vi riduce in servitù, se alcuno vi divora, se alcuno prende, se alcuno s'innalza, se alcuno vi percuote in sul volto, voi lo tollerate.
21Io lo dico a nostro vituperio, noi siamo stati deboli; e pure, in qualunque cosa alcuno si vanta, io lo dico in pazzia, mi vanto io ancora.
22Sono eglino Ebrei? io ancora; sono eglino Israeliti? io ancora; sono eglino progenie di Abrahamo? io ancora.
23Sono eglino ministri di Cristo? io parlo da pazzo, io lo son più di loro; in travagli molto più; in battiture senza comparazione più; in prigioni molto più; in morti molte volte più.
24Da' Giudei ho ricevute cinque volte quaranta battiture meno una.
25Io sono stato battuto di verghe tre volte, sono stato lapidato una volta, tre volte ho rotto in mare, ho passato un giorno ed una notte nell'abisso.
26Spesse volte sono stato in viaggi, in pericoli di fiumi, in pericoli di ladroni, in pericoli della mia nazione, in pericoli da' Gentili, in pericoli in città, in pericoli in solitudine, in pericoli in mare, in pericoli fra falsi fratelli;
27in fatica, e travaglio; sovente in veglie, in fame, ed in sete; in digiuni spesse volte; in freddo, e nudità.
28Oltre alle cose che son di fuori, ciò che si solleva tuttodì contro a me, è la sollecitudine per tutte le chiese.
29Chi è debole, ch'io ancora non sia debole? chi è scandalezzato, ch'io non arda?
30Se convien gloriarsi, io mi glorierò delle cose della mia debolezza.
31Iddio e Padre del nostro Signor Gesù Cristo, il quale è benedetto in eterno, sa ch'io non mento.
32In Damasco, il governatore del re Areta avea poste guardie nella città de' Damasceni, volendomi pigliare;
33ma io fui calato dal muro per una finestra, in una sporta; e così scampai dalle sue mani.
Reina-Valera 1909
1OJALÁ toleraseis un poco mi locura; empero toleradme.
2Pues que os celo con celo de Dios; porque os he desposado á un marido, para presentaros como una virgen pura á Cristo.
3Mas temo que como la serpiente engañó á Eva con su astucia, sean corrompidos así vuestros sentidos en alguna manera, de la simplicidad que es en Cristo.
4Porque si el que viene, predicare otro Jesús que el que hemos predicado, ó recibiereis otro espíritu del que habéis recibido, ú otro evangelio del que habéis aceptado, lo sufrierais bien.
5Cierto pienso que en nada he sido inferior á aquellos grandes apóstoles.
6Porque aunque soy basto en la palabra, empero no en la ciencia: mas en todo somos ya del todo manifiestos á vosotros.
7¿Pequé yo humillándome á mí mismo, para que vosotros fueseis ensalzados, porque os he predicado el evangelio de Dios de balde?
8He despojado las otras iglesias, recibiendo salario para ministraros á vosotros.
9Y estando con vosotros y teniendo necesidad, á ninguno fuí carga; porque lo que me faltaba, suplieron los hermanos que vinieron de Macedonia: y en todo me guardé de seros gravoso, y me guardaré.
10Es la verdad de Cristo en mí, que esta gloria no me será cerrada en las partes de Acaya.
11¿Por qué? ¿porque no os amo? Dios lo sabe.
12Mas lo que hago, haré aún, para cortar la ocasión de aquellos que la desean, á fin de que en aquello que se glorían, sean hallados semejantes á nosotros.
13Porque éstos son falsos apóstoles, obreros fraudulentos, transfigurándose en apóstoles de Cristo.
14Y no es maravilla, porque el mismo Satanás se transfigura en ángel de luz.
15Así que, no es mucho si también sus ministros se transfiguran como ministros de justicia; cuyo fin será conforme á sus obras.
16Otra vez digo: Que nadie me estime ser loco; de otra manera, recibidme como á loco, para que aun me gloríe yo un poquito.
17Lo que hablo, no lo hablo según el Señor, sino como en locura, con esta confianza de gloria.
18Pues que muchos se glorían según la carne, también yo me gloriaré.
19Porque de buena gana toleráis los necios, siendo vosotros sabios:
20Porque toleráis si alguno os pone en servidumbre, si alguno os devora, si alguno toma, si alguno se ensalza, si alguno os hiere en la cara.
21Dígolo cuanto á la afrenta, como si nosotros hubiésemos sido flacos. Empero en lo que otro tuviere osadía (hablo con locura), también yo tengo osadía.
22¿Son Hebreos? yo también. ¿Son Israelitas? yo también. ¿Son simiente de Abraham? también yo.
23¿Son ministros de Cristo? (como poco sabio hablo) yo más: en trabajos más abundante; en azotes sin medida; en cárceles más; en muertes, muchas veces.
24De los judíos cinco veces he recibido cuarenta azotes menos uno.
25Tres veces he sido azotado con varas; una vez apedreado; tres veces he padecido naufragio; una noche y un día he estado en lo profundo de la mar;
26En caminos muchas veces, peligros de ríos, peligros de ladrones, peligros de los de mi nación, peligros de los Gentiles, peligros en la ciudad, peligros en el desierto, peligros en la mar, peligros entre falsos hermanos;
27En trabajo y fatiga, en muchas vigilias, en hambre y sed, en muchos ayunos, en frío y en desnudez;
28Sin otras cosas además, lo que sobre mí se agolpa cada día, la solicitud de todas las iglesias.
29¿Quién enferma, y yo no enfermo? ¿Quién se escandaliza, y yo no me quemo?
30Si es menester gloriarse, me gloriaré yo de lo que es de mi flaqueza.
31El Dios y Padre del Señor nuestro Jesucristo, que es bendito por siglos, sabe que no miento.
32En Damasco, el gobernador de la provincia del rey Aretas guardaba la ciudad de los Damascenos para prenderme;
33Y fuí descolgado del muro en un serón por una ventana, y escapé de sus manos.
King James Version
1Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
2For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
3But 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 Christ.
4For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
5For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
6But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
7Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
8I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.
9And 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 Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
10As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
11Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
13For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
14And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
15Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
16I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
17That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
18Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
19For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
20For ye suffer, 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.
21I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
22Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
23Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
24Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
25Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
26In 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;
27In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
28Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
29Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
30If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
31The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
32In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
33And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
World English Bible
1I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
2For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you in marriage to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
3But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
4For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news” which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough.
5For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
6But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.
7Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?
8I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
9When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.
10As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
11Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.
12But what I do, that I will continue to do, that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity, that in which they boast, they may be recognized just like us.
13For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
14And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
15It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
16I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
17That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
18Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
19For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
20For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.
21To my shame, I speak as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
22Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I.
23Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.
24Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.
25Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.
26I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;
27in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
28Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.
29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?
30If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
31The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie.
32In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city, desiring to arrest me.
33I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and escaped his hands.