1 PBT De wete diyaware, diyaware, we karote itembe dena mendo bete kaso tupuko, We nepe karote ikautu. BSB BSB: I hope you will put up with a little of my foolishness, but you are already doing that.
3 PBT Kewaro bete, de andiki te dekalre, sawa bise-bise walre ye nena tepeng Hawa te apeupeu te wapun suku, nemane lati wena mendo kiyaipai poi mendo ambai telpera kembalri Walri Yei kekane mendo ambai. BSB BSB: I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.
4 PBT We tembe detero besika mende Ate sanenemelre Walri Yei sikema a si, e A site kiranemere, dawa rowe aru busi-busi te yatembe, we bete mena doi pai, da asena si e meterka doi pai mo. BSB BSB: For if someone comes and proclaims a Jesus other than the One we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit than the One you received, or a different gospel than the one you accepted, you put up with it very easily.
5 PBT Dena mendo mekanarna, de kasombai telperena akeyana simane. BSB BSB: I consider myself in no way inferior to those “super-apostles.”
6 PBT De a walro kuku mane tuware, mendo karo arikuko, karo bete-bete nekaina, de nepe meko yande we kepe tipe mukuna kembalri. BSB BSB: Although I am not a polished speaker, I am certainly not lacking in knowledge. We have made this clear to you in every way possible.
7 PBT Da waro tena de peko te mekote pone, dena eu nepe ate-ate tere, wete kura te keraimmere dana bete nekewera Yai Mang Walri kena Aena wete nemei nepete saniyarare? BSB BSB: Was it a sin for me to humble myself in order to exalt you, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge?
8 PBT De pekomane yau-yau sikena sa te yatiyate, we te dikteu pone. BSB BSB: I robbed other churches by accepting their support in order to serve you.
9 PBT De wembare ku tewambeko, de sitena satena taipai dawaro tena ena detero Mskedonis detens diki eu ekena mekote. BSB BSB: And when I was with you and in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my needs. I have refrained from being a burden to you in any way, and I will continue to do so.
10 PBT Walri Yei kena tepere derei eu burune, a kalri si taukoipaina di yeko-yeko Akhaya. BSB BSB: As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.
11 PBT Beya tena? de wetena diki-diki po mikoipai? Mai Mang Walri nimeiwe. BSB BSB: Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!
12 PBT Dawarotena de neme mekotere de mekoyarena netenate de nete kete tempone karo nei mendo karo ena da mendo tepande na mane esuna kembalri neye karite dainema. BSB BSB: But I will keep on doing what I am doing, in order to undercut those who want an opportunity to be regarded as our equals in the things of which they boast.
13 PBT Menena detelro kembalri detelro peko, eu na akeyana kembalri Yei kena a keyana mane. BSB BSB: For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
14 PBT Nemena detelro-detelro, nena apeu-peu na akeyaana kembalri Yei kena a keyana mane. BSB BSB: And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
15 PBT Netenate weu tena titeipaina, nena a kiyana nembei tamembone merai poina ake yana make, nenei tu kilrinai nena, nenei kembalri mekoyai na serei yate naiye. BSB BSB: It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their actions.
16 PBT Mekou te lati sautemere, si wapensini demendo ambai na detero te erende, nemena te, dete dowe tembe detero mendo ambaina mane, newaro tena de lati poi betemane tuwatenere. BSB BSB: I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then receive me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.
17 PBT Da a erupukarns telpere esune erupukare da kari, de a eripai walri (Walri) kena burune, dawaro de mendo ambainamane. BSB BSB: In this confident boasting of mine, I am not speaking as the Lord would, but as a fool.
18 PBT Detelro, teneng depore da eu burune kari te kaiye, de lati tantemere kari te kotere. BSB BSB: Since many are boasting according to the flesh, I too will boast.
19 PBT Netante, we muku poi te meko yau we newarore wena kena kari nerone niki yauwe detero mendo ambaika nerone wari yawe. BSB BSB: For you gladly put up with fools, since you are so wise.
20 PBT Wena kenate dusang kuko, detelro si wete kembalri detelro mane kembalri yatekemere, wete tumpuko wena eumena karo ne yateyowe, nenei eu te bu-bura te kenu, wena bete tetewe. BSB BSB: In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or exalts himself or strikes you in the face.
21 PBT Paita bure tere de ate nepe kia suamare a mukuna wake ambai ne waro tena! Metenate, deterlro si beya-beya wano kwaye kena karite koraiye, de ate erare detelro mendo ambaina mane, de lati endiki dikoipai. BSB BSB: To my shame I concede that we were too weak for that! Speaking as a fool, however, I can match what anyone else dares to boast about.
22 PBT Ne Ibranidetelro? De lati Ne Israel detelro? De lati Ne Abraham kena mie dekorna? De lati. BSB BSB: Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.
23 PBT Ne Walri Yeite dikaimbeko? De ne kembalri te poi telr te mekoyalre-- de keu detelro mane a terare- Idembari tereng dopere te mekoyare, tereng teka kobuyane taitepeko, piniyaite newaro tena mebeipai, te teyene taitepeko, pini yaite newaro tena mebeipai, tetyer walripiyolre. BSB BSB: Are they servants of Christ? (I am speaking as if I were out of my mind.) I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.
24 PBT Yahudi detelro kenare, de misi serei tewambukare dobe (dobe) bei kasotupoko piniyaite. BSB BSB: Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.
25 PBT Da naming serei dete bake pikeyaite, dabesika dete oru tindereyaite, danaming serei karam ai burane ai burane deneng besika ya bei pere nau dite-date yepoyowe jehuda seroutou. BSB BSB: Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.
26 PBT Dena otowerarena, tereng dopere bu kena peko ne tuwanre, neperna ye peko detro, Yahudi serai ye, detelro si lati kota nerone peko siapeu-peu nero rena aau-yau neronena. BSB BSB: In my frequent journeys, I have been in danger from rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the Gentiles, in danger in the city and in the country, in danger on the sea and among false brothers,
27 PBT De nepe kembalri sedloperete mekare, mendote bete tapipiyare, semate nekane, moning te tuanare bu walri te tewanare, ya bei bei sa kitipiyowe, biringke te tewakare mayong ambai. BSB BSB: in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.
28 PBT Kembalri sinekewena amane ya bein-beiteat impoi yowe nena dena meburana yau-yaunate sema te nekare. BSB BSB: Apart from these external trials, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.
29 PBT Sing wake ambai, de wake tere te tepelre? Sing ate derende, de netena kena bise dipai. BSB BSB: Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with grief?
30 PBT De kanakarite kotelre, keakalri dena kembalri poi ua mikoipai na kalri. BSB BSB: If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.
31 PBT Mai Mang Walri Yei nemaneimo te nete kapene mare. Nimei bombe de apeu-peutena wapipai. BSB BSB: The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is forever worthy of praise, knows that I am not lying.
32 PBT Damaskus ne berengka waei Raja Aretas kena oto tou na Damaskus sema te nekewena, dete kerounai telre. BSB BSB: In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas secured the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me.
33 PBT De te tangke yene dikaite, one mie tepeyowe na jemdelare a taiepeko de nena mere tero meropukare. BSB BSB: But I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his grasp.
Select verses for actions: Enter goes to them and Escape comes back.