2 Corinthians 1 ~
1 Paul, an apostle of by the will of , and Timothy
our brother, unto the church of YAHUVEH which is at Corinth, with all the
saints which are in all Achaia:
2 Grace be to you and peace from YAHUVEH our FATHER, and fromYAHUSHUA ha
MASHIACH.
3 Blessed beELOHIM, even the FATHER of our LORD YAHUSHUAha MASHIACH, the
FATHER of mercies, and the ELOHIM of all comfort;
4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them
which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of
God.
5 For as the sufferings of the MESSIAH abound in us, so our consolation also
aboundeth by the MESSIAH.
6 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which
is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or
whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
7 And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the
sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.
8 For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us
in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we
despaired even of life:
9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in
ourselves, but in YAHUVEH which raiseth the dead:
10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust
that HE will yet deliver us;
11 Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon
us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.
12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in
simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of
ELOHIM, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to
you-ward.
13 For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge;
and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;
14 As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as
ye also are ours in the day of YAHUSHUAHA MASHIACH.
15 And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might
have a second benefit;
16 And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto
you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.
17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I
purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea
yea, and nay nay?
18 But asELOHIMis true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.
19 For the SON OF ELOHIM, YAHUSHUAHA MASHIACH, who was preached among you by
us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in HIM was
yea.
20 For all the promises of ELOHIM in HIMare yea, and in HIM Amen, unto the
glory of ELOHIM by us.
21 Now HE which stablisheth us with you in the MESSIAH, and hath anointed us,
isYAHUVEH;
22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the SPIRIT in our hearts.
23 Moreover I call ELOHIM for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came
not as yet unto Corinth.
24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy:
for by faith ye stand.
~ 2 Corinthians 2 ~
1 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in
heaviness.
2 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same
which is made sorry by me?
3 And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from
them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is
the joy of you all.
4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many
tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I
have more abundantly unto you.
5 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may
not overcharge you all.
6 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
7 So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him,
lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether
ye be obedient in all things.
10 To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing,
to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of the
MESSIAH;
11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his
devices.
12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach the MESSIAH's gospel, and a
door was opened unto me of YAHUVEH,
13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking
my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.
14 Now thanks be unto ELOHIM, which always causeth us to triumph in the
MESSIAH, and maketh manifest the savour of HIS knowledge by us in every place.
15 For we are unto ELOHIM a sweet savour of the MESSIAH, in them that are saved,
and in them that perish:
16 To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the
savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of ELOHIM: but as of
sincerity, but as of YAHUVEH, in the sight of ELOHIM speak we in the MESSIAH.
~ 2 Corinthians 3 ~
1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles
of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of the MESSIAH
ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the SPIRIT of the living
ELOHIM; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
4 And such trust have we through the MESSIAH to ELOHIM-ward:
5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves;
but our sufficiency is of ELOHIM;
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter,
but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was
glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of
Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the
ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason
of the glory that excelleth.
11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth
is glorious.
12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
13 And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of
Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail
untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in
the MESSIAH.
15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to YAHUVEH, the vail shall be taken away.
17 Now YAHUVEH is that SPIRIT: and where the SPIRIT of YAHUVEHis, there is
liberty.
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of YAHUVEH, are
changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the SPIRIT of
YAHUVEH.
~ 2 Corinthians 4 ~
1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint
not;
2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness,
nor handling the word of YAHUVEH deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth
commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4 In whom the elohim of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe
not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of the MESSIAH, who is the image of
YAHUVEH, should shine unto them.
5 For we preach not ourselves, but YAHUSHUAha MASHIACH; and ourselves your
servants for YAHUSHUAHA MASHIACH' sake.
6 For ELOHIM, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in
our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of YAHUVEH in the
face of YAHUSHUAHA MASHIACH.
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power
may be of ELOHIM, and not of us.
8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but
not in despair;
9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of YAHUSHUAHA MASHIACH, that the
life also of YAHUSHUAHA MASHIACH might be made manifest in our body.
11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for YAHUSHUAHA MASHIACH'
sake, that the life also of YAHUSHUAHA MASHIACH might be made manifest in our
mortal flesh.
12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed,
and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
14 Knowing that HE which raised up YAHUSHUAHA MASHIACH shall raise up us also
by YAHUSHUAHA MASHIACH, and shall present us with you.
15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through
the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of ELOHIM.
16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the
inward man is renewed day by day.
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far
more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are
not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are
not seen are eternal.
~ 2 Corinthians 5 ~
1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we
have a building of ELOHIM, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house
which is from heaven:
3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we
would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of
life.
5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing isELOHIM, who also hath
given unto us the earnest of the SPIRIT.
6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in
the body, we are absent from YAHUSHUAHA MASHIACH:
7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and
to be present with YAHUSHUAHA MASHIACH.
9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of
HIM.
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of the MESSIAH; that every
one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done,
whether it be good or bad.
11 Knowing therefore the terror of YAHUSHUAHA MASHIACH, we persuade men; but we
are made manifest unto ELOHIM; and I trust also are made manifest in your
consciences.
12 For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory
on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in
appearance, and not in heart.
13 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to ELOHIM: or whether we be
sober, it is for your cause.
14 For the love of the MESSIAH constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if
one died for all, then were all dead:
15 And thatHE died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live
unto themselves, but unto HIM which died for them, and rose again.
16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have
known the MESSIAH after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we HIM no more.
17 Therefore if any man be in the MESSIAH, he is a new creature: old things
are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
18 And all things are of ELOHIM, who hath reconciled us to HIMSELF by YAHUSHUAHA MASHIACH, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
19 To wit, that YAHUVEH was in the MESSIAH, reconciling the world unto HIMSELF,
not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of
reconciliation.
20 Now then we are ambassadors for the MESSIAH, as though ELOHIM did beseech
you by us: we pray you in the MESSIAH's stead, be ye reconciled to YAHUVEH.
21 For HE hath made HIMto be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be
made the righteousness of YAHUVEH in HIM.
~ 2 Corinthians 6 ~
1 We then, as workers together with HIM, beseech you also that ye receive
not the grace of ELOHIM in vain.
2 (For HE saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of
salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now
is the day of salvation.)
3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of ELOHIM, in much
patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in
fastings;
6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the RUACH ha
KODESH, by love unfeigned,
7 By the word of truth, by the power of ELOHIM, by the armour of righteousness
on the right hand and on the left,
8 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and
yet true;
9 As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as
chastened, and not killed;
10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having
nothing, and yet possessing all things.
11 O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.
12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
13 Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also
enlarged.
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath
righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
15 And what concord hath the MESSIAH with Belial? or what part hath he that
believeth with an infidel?
16 And what agreement hath the temple of ELOHIM with idols? for ye are the
temple of the living ELOHIM; as ELOHIM hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk
in them; and I will be their ELOHIM, and they shall be my people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith YAHUVEH, and
touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
18 And will be a FATHER unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith
YAHUVEH ALMIGHTY.
~ 2 Corinthians 7 ~
1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from
all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of
ELOHIM.
2 Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have
defrauded no man.
3 I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in
our hearts to die and live with you.
4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I
am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.
5 For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were
troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.
6 Nevertheless ELOHIM, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by
the coming of Titus;
7 And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted
in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind
toward me; so that I rejoiced the more.
8 For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did
repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it
were but for a season.
9 Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to
repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive
damage by us in nothing.
10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but
the sorrow of the world worketh death.
11 For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what
carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what
indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal,
yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in
this matter.
12 Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had
done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you
in the sight of God might appear unto you.
13 Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more
joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.
14 For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we
spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before
Titus, is found a truth.
15 And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembereth
the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.
16 I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.
~ 2 Corinthians 8 ~
1 Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of ELOHIM bestowed on the
churches of Macedonia;
2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their
deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
3 For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were
willing of themselves;
4 Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon
us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.
5 And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to
YAHUSHUAHA MASHIACH, and unto us by the will of ELOHIM.
6 Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish
in you the same grace also.
7 Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and
knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye
abound in this grace also.
8 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and
to prove the sincerity of your love.
9 For ye know the grace of our LORD YAHUSHUAHA MASHIACH, that, though HE was
rich, yet for your sakes HE became poor, that ye through HIS poverty might be
rich.
10 And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun
before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
11 Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to
will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.
12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a
man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
13 For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:
14 But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply
for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that
there may be equality:
15 As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that
had gathered little had no lack.
16 But thanks be to YAHUVEH, which put the same earnest care into the heart of
Titus for you.
17 For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own
accord he went unto you.
18 And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the gospel
throughout all the churches;
19 And not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with
us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord,
and declaration of your ready mind:
20 Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is
administered by us:
21 Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of YAHUSHUAHA MASHIACH,
but also in the sight of men.
22 And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved
diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence
which I have in you.
23 Whether any do enquire of Titus, he is my partner and fellowhelper
concerning you: or our brethren be enquired of, they are the messengers of the
churches, and the glory of the MESSIAH.
24 Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love,
and of our boasting on your behalf.
~ 2 Corinthians 9 ~
1 For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to
write to you:
2 For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of
Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very
many.
3 Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in
this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:
4 Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we
(that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.
5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go
before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice
before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of
covetousness.
6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he
which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not
grudgingly, or of necessity: for YAHUVEH loveth a cheerful giver.
8 And ELOHIMis able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always
having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his
righteousness remaineth for ever.
10 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your
food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your
righteousness;)
11 Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us
thanksgiving to YAHUVEH.
12 For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the
saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto YAHUVEH;
13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify YAHUVEH for your
professed subjection unto the gospel of the MESSIAH, and for your liberal
distribution unto them, and unto all men;
14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of
ELOHIM in you.
15 Thanks be unto ELOHIM for his unspeakable gift. ~
~ 2 Corinthians 10 ~
1 Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of the MESSIAH,
who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that
confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if
we walked according to the flesh.
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through ELOHIM to
the pulling down of strong holds;)
5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against
the knowledge of ELOHIM, and bringing into captivity every thought to the
obedience of the MESSIAH;
6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is
fulfilled.
7 Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself
that he is the MESSIAH's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is
the MESSIAH's, even so are we the MESSIAH's.
8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which YAHUSHUA HA
MASHIACH hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should
not be ashamed:
9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily
presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
11 Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we
are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.
12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some
that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and
comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
13 But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the
measure of the rule which YAHUVEH hath distributed to us, a measure to reach
even unto you.
14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not
unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of the
MESSIAH:
15 Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's
labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be
enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,
16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in
another man's line of things made ready to our hand.
17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in YAHUVEH.
18 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom YAHUVEH commendeth.
~ 2 Corinthians 11 ~
1 Would to ELOHIM ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear
with me.
2 For 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 the MESSIAH.
3 But 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 the
MESSIAH.
4 For if he that cometh preacheth another YAHUSHUAHA MASHIACH, 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.
5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been
throughly made manifest among you in all things.
7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted,
because I have preached to you the gospel of ELOHIM freely?
8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.
9 And 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.
10 As the truth of the MESSIAH is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting
in the regions of Achaia.
11 Wherefore? because I love you not? ELOHIM knoweth.
12 But 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.
13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves
into the apostles of the MESSIAH.
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the
ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive
me, that I may boast myself a little.
17 That which I speak, I speak it not after YAHUSHUAHA MASHIACH, but as it
were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
20 For 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.
21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit
whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the
seed of Abraham? so am I.
23 Are they ministers of the MESSIAH? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in
labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in
deaths oft.
24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered
shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
26 In 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;
27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in
fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the
care of all the churches.
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine
infirmities.
31 The ELOHIM and FATHER of our LORD YAHUSHUAHA MASHIACH, which is blessed for
evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the
Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his
hands.
~ 2 Corinthians 12 ~
1 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and
revelations of YAHUSHUAHA MASHIACH.
2 I knew a man in the MESSIAH above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I
cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: ELOHIM knoweth;) such an
one caught up to the third heaven.
3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot
tell: ELOHIM knoweth;)
4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it
is not lawful for a man to utter.
5 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine
infirmities.
6 For 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.
7 And 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.
8 For this thing I besought YAHUSHUAHA MASHIACH thrice, that it might depart
from me.
9 And 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 the MESSIAH may rest upon me.
10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in
persecutions, in distresses for the MESSIAH's sake: for when I am weak, then am
I strong.
11 I 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.
12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in
signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.
13 For 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.
14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be
burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to
lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly
I love you, the less I be loved.
16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you
with guile.
17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?
18 I 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?
19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before ELOHIM in
the MESSIAH: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
20 For 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:
21 And lest, when I come again, my ELOHIM 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.
~ 2 Corinthians 13 ~
1 This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three
witnesses shall every word be established.
2 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time;
and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all
other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
3 Since ye seek a proof of the MESSIAH speaking in me, which to you-ward is not
weak, but is mighty in you.
4 For though HE was crucified through weakness, yet HE liveth by the power of
YAHUVEH. For we also are weak in HIM, but we shall live with HIM by the power of
YAHUVEH toward you.
5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye
not your own selves, how that YAHUSHUA is in you, except ye be reprobates?
6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.
7 Now I pray to ELOHIM that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved,
but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish,
even your perfection.
10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use
sharpness, according to the power which YAHUSHUAHA MASHIACH hath given me to
edification, and not to destruction.
11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind,
live in peace; and the ELOHIM of love and peace shall be with you.
12 Greet one another with an holy kiss.
13 All the saints salute you.
14 The grace of YAHUSHUAHA MASHIACH, and the love of ELOHIM, and the communion
of the RUACH ha KODESH, be with you all. Amen.