2 Corinthians · Byzantine Textform (Robinson-Pierpont 2018)
2 Corinthians 11 Byzantine Textform (Robinson-Pierpont 2018)
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Notes on this text (1)
- Romans 16:25–27 stands after 14:23 (as 14:24–26), as in most Byzantine manuscripts.
RP2018 Byzantine Textform (Robinson-Pierpont 2018)
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1 οφελον ανειχεσθε μου μικρον τη αφροσυνη αλλα και ανεχεσθε μου
1 I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
2 ζηλω γαρ υμασ θεου ζηλω ηρμοσαμην γαρ υμασ ενι ανδρι παρθενον αγνην παραστησαι τω χριστω
2 For 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.
3 φοβουμαι δε μηπωσ ωσ ο οφισ ευαν εξηπατησεν εν τη πανουργια αυτου ουτωσ φθαρη τα νοηματα υμων απο τησ απλοτητοσ τησ εισ τον χριστον
3 But 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.
4 ει μεν γαρ ο ερχομενοσ αλλον ιησουν κηρυσσει ον ουκ εκηρυξαμεν η πνευμα ετερον λαμβανετε ο ουκ ελαβετε η ευαγγελιον ετερον ο ουκ εδεξασθε καλωσ ηνειχεσθε
4 For 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.
5 λογιζομαι γαρ μηδεν υστερηκεναι των υπερ λιαν αποστολων
5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
6 ει δε και ιδιωτησ τω λογω αλλ ου τη γνωσει αλλ εν παντι φανερωθεντεσ εν πασιν εισ υμασ
6 But 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.
7 η αμαρτιαν εποιησα εμαυτον ταπεινων ινα υμεισ υψωθητε οτι δωρεαν το του θεου ευαγγελιον ευηγγελισαμην υμιν
7 Or 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?
8 αλλασ εκκλησιασ εσυλησα λαβων οψωνιον προσ την υμων διακονιαν
8 I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
9 και παρων προσ υμασ και υστερηθεισ ου κατεναρκησα ουδενοσ το γαρ υστερημα μου προσανεπληρωσαν οι αδελφοι ελθοντεσ απο μακεδονιασ και εν παντι αβαρη υμιν εμαυτον ετηρησα και τηρησω
9 When 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.
10 εστιν αληθεια χριστου εν εμοι οτι η καυχησισ αυτη ου φραγησεται εισ εμε εν τοισ κλιμασιν τησ αχαιασ
10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
11 δια τι οτι ουκ αγαπω υμασ ο θεοσ οιδεν
11 Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.
12 ο δε ποιω και ποιησω ινα εκκοψω την αφορμην των θελοντων αφορμην ινα εν ω καυχωνται ευρεθωσιν καθωσ και ημεισ
12 But 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.
13 οι γαρ τοιουτοι ψευδαποστολοι εργαται δολιοι μετασχηματιζομενοι εισ αποστολουσ χριστου
13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
14 και ου θαυμαστον αυτοσ γαρ ο σατανασ μετασχηματιζεται εισ αγγελον φωτοσ
14 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
15 ου μεγα ουν ει και οι διακονοι αυτου μετασχηματιζονται ωσ διακονοι δικαιοσυνησ ων το τελοσ εσται κατα τα εργα αυτων
15 It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
16 παλιν λεγω μη τισ με δοξη αφρονα ειναι ει δε μηγε καν ωσ αφρονα δεξασθε με ινα καγω μικρον τι καυχησωμαι
16 I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
17 ο λαλω ου λαλω κατα κυριον αλλ ωσ εν αφροσυνη εν ταυτη τη υποστασει τησ καυχησεωσ
17 That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
18 επει πολλοι καυχωνται κατα την σαρκα καγω καυχησομαι
18 Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
19 ηδεωσ γαρ ανεχεσθε των αφρονων φρονιμοι οντεσ
19 For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.
20 ανεχεσθε γαρ ει τισ υμασ καταδουλοι ει τισ κατεσθιει ει τισ λαμβανει ει τισ επαιρεται ει τισ υμασ εισ προσωπον δερει
20 For 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.
21 κατα ατιμιαν λεγω ωσ οτι ημεισ ησθενησαμεν εν ω δ αν τισ τολμα εν αφροσυνη λεγω τολμω καγω
21 To 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.
22 εβραιοι εισιν καγω ισραηλιται εισιν καγω σπερμα αβρααμ εισιν καγω
22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I.
23 διακονοι χριστου εισιν παραφρονων λαλω υπερ εγω εν κοποισ περισσοτερωσ εν πληγαισ υπερβαλλοντωσ εν φυλακαισ περισσοτερωσ εν θανατοισ πολλακισ
23 Are 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.
24 υπο ιουδαιων πεντακισ τεσσαρακοντα παρα μιαν ελαβον
24 Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.
25 τρισ εραβδισθην απαξ ελιθασθην τρισ εναυαγησα νυχθημερον εν τω βυθω πεποιηκα
25 Three 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.
26 οδοιποριαισ πολλακισ κινδυνοισ ποταμων κινδυνοισ ληστων κινδυνοισ εκ γενουσ κινδυνοισ εξ εθνων κινδυνοισ εν πολει κινδυνοισ εν ερημια κινδυνοισ εν θαλασση κινδυνοισ εν ψευδαδελφοισ
26 I 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;
27 εν κοπω και μοχθω εν αγρυπνιαισ πολλακισ εν λιμω και διψει εν νηστειαισ πολλακισ εν ψυχει και γυμνοτητι
27 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
28 χωρισ των παρεκτοσ η επισυστασισ μου η καθ ημεραν η μεριμνα πασων των εκκλησιων
28 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.
29 τισ ασθενει και ουκ ασθενω τισ σκανδαλιζεται και ουκ εγω πυρουμαι
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?
30 ει καυχασθαι δει τα τησ ασθενειασ μου καυχησομαι
30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
31 ο θεοσ και πατηρ του κυριου ιησου χριστου οιδεν ο ων ευλογητοσ εισ τουσ αιωνασ οτι ου ψευδομαι
31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie.
32 εν δαμασκω ο εθναρχησ αρετα του βασιλεωσ εφρουρει την δαμασκηνων πολιν πιασαι με θελων
32 In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the Damascenes’ city, desiring to arrest me.
33 και δια θυριδοσ εν σαργανη εχαλασθην δια του τειχουσ και εξεφυγον τασ χειρασ αυτου
33 I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and escaped his hands.
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The king whose governor guarded Damascus to seize Paul; Paul escaped in a basket through a window in the wall.
Cited in the guide: 2 Corinthians 11:32
Cross references (33)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Corinthians 11:4; 1 Corinthians 1:21; 2 Corinthians 11:21; 2 Corinthians 11:19; 2 Corinthians 5:13
- 2 Hosea 2:19–20; Ephesians 5:26–27; Isaiah 54:5; Colossians 1:28; Leviticus 21:13–15
- 3 Colossians 2:8; Galatians 1:6; Ephesians 4:14; 1 John 4:1; Colossians 2:4
- 4 Galatians 1:6–8; 1 Corinthians 3:11; 1 Timothy 2:5; Ephesians 4:4–5; 1 Corinthians 12:4–11
- 5 1 Corinthians 15:10; 2 Corinthians 12:11–12; Galatians 2:6–9
- 6 1 Corinthians 1:17; Ephesians 3:4; 2 Corinthians 4:2; 1 Corinthians 1:21; 2 Peter 3:15–16
- 7 2 Corinthians 12:13; 1 Corinthians 4:10–12; 2 Corinthians 10:1; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 1 Corinthians 9:6
- 8 2 Corinthians 11:9; Philippians 4:14–16; Philippians 4:18
- 9 2 Thessalonians 3:8–9; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 1 Thessalonians 2:6; Philippians 4:10–16; Hebrews 11:37
- 10 Romans 9:1; Acts 18:12; Romans 1:9; 2 Corinthians 1:23; 2 Corinthians 11:31
- 11 2 Corinthians 12:15; 2 Corinthians 7:3; 2 Corinthians 6:11–12; 2 Corinthians 12:2–3; Revelation 2:23
- 12 1 Corinthians 9:12; 2 Corinthians 10:17; Galatians 1:7; 2 Corinthians 11:9; 2 Corinthians 11:18
- 13 Galatians 1:7; Revelation 2:2; 1 John 4:1; Philippians 3:2; Galatians 2:4
- 14 Galatians 1:8; 2 Corinthians 2:11; 2 Corinthians 11:3; Revelation 12:9; Matthew 4:1–10
- 15 Philippians 3:19; 2 Corinthians 3:9; Revelation 9:11; Jeremiah 23:14–15; Jude 4
- 16 2 Corinthians 11:1; 2 Corinthians 12:6; 2 Corinthians 12:11; 2 Corinthians 11:19; 2 Corinthians 11:21–23
- 17 1 Corinthians 7:12; Philippians 3:3–6; 2 Corinthians 9:4; 1 Corinthians 7:25; 2 Corinthians 11:18–27
- 18 2 Corinthians 12:11; 2 Corinthians 12:9; Philippians 3:3–4; 1 Peter 1:24; 2 Corinthians 12:5–6
- 19 1 Corinthians 4:10; 1 Corinthians 10:15; 1 Corinthians 8:1; Revelation 3:17
- 20 Galatians 2:4; Galatians 5:1; Galatians 4:3; Galatians 4:9; Isaiah 50:6
- 21 2 Corinthians 10:10; 2 Corinthians 10:1–2; 2 Corinthians 11:17; 2 Corinthians 11:22–27; 2 Corinthians 13:10
- 22 Philippians 3:5; Romans 11:1; Romans 9:4; Exodus 7:16; Exodus 9:13
- 23 2 Corinthians 6:4–5; Colossians 1:24; 2 Corinthians 6:9; 2 Corinthians 1:9–10; 2 Corinthians 11:24–25
- 24 Mark 13:9; Deuteronomy 25:2–3; Matthew 10:17
- 25 Acts 14:19; Hebrews 11:37; Acts 27:1–44; Acts 16:37; Acts 16:33
- 26 Acts 14:5; Acts 20:19; Acts 25:3; Acts 17:5; Acts 13:50
- 27 2 Corinthians 6:5; Philippians 4:12; 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 2 Thessalonians 3:8; 1 Corinthians 4:11–12
- 28 1 Corinthians 7:17; Romans 15:16; Acts 20:18–35; Romans 11:13; Acts 15:40–41
- 29 1 Corinthians 8:13; 1 Corinthians 9:22; Galatians 4:8–20; Nehemiah 13:23–25; Nehemiah 13:15–20
- 30 2 Corinthians 12:5–11; Proverbs 25:27; 1 Corinthians 2:3; Jeremiah 9:23–24; Proverbs 27:2
- 31 Romans 9:5; Ephesians 1:3; John 10:30; Romans 15:6; 1 Peter 1:3
- 32 Acts 9:24–25; 2 Corinthians 11:26
- 33 Acts 9:25; Joshua 2:18; 1 Samuel 19:12
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Being about to enter upon his own praises he uses much previous correction. And he does this not once or twice, although the necessity of the subject, and what he had often said, were sufficient excuse for him.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 12 (1889)
For the devil it was, transforming himself into an angel of light. And he much allured proud flesh, in that he had no fleshly body.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
Wherefore Paul also said, "That wherein they glory, they may be found even as we." But if when we are in a strange country, and are going unto persons unknown to us, we must seek nothing more than our food for the day, much more when abiding at home.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
The devil also transfigures himself into an angel of light; not that he may reascend to where he was, for having made his heart hard as an anvil, he has henceforth a will that cannot repent; but in order that he may envelope those who are living an Angelic life in a mist of blindness, and a pestilent condition …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
… not in his own voice, doth he call on that other deep, for whom being jealous he feareth, lest that, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so their minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in our Bridegroom, Thine only Son. What a light of beauty will that be when "we shall see Him as He …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)