Paul and the False Apostles 1 TNT Wolde to god ye coulde suffre me a lytell in my folysshnes: yee and I praye you forbeare me. BSB BSB: I hope you will put up with a little of my foolishness, but you are already doing that.
3 TNT But I feare lest as the serpent begyled Eve thorow his sutteltie even so youre wittes shuld be corrupte from the singlenes that is in Christ. 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 TNT For if he that commeth preache another Iesus then hym whom we preached: or if ye receave another sprete then that which ye have receaved: other another gospell then that ye have receaved ye myght right wel have bene content. 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 TNT I suppose that I was not behynde the chefe apostles. BSB BSB: I consider myself in no way inferior to those “super-apostles.”
6 TNT Though I be rude in speakynge yet I am not so in knowledge. How be it amonge you we are knowen to the vtmost what we are in all thynges. 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 TNT Did I therin synne be cause I submitted my silfe that ye myght be exalted and because I preached to you the gospell of God fre? 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 TNT I robbed other congregacions and toke wages of the to do you service with all. BSB BSB: I robbed other churches by accepting their support in order to serve you.
9 TNT And when I was present with yov and had nede I was greuous to no man for that which was lackynge vnto me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all thynges I kept my silfe that I shuld not be greveous to you: and so will I kepe my silfe. 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 TNT Yf the trueth of Christ be in me this ieioysynge shall not be taken from me in the regions of Achaia. 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 TNT Wherfore? Be cause I love you not? God knoweth. BSB BSB: Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!
12 TNT Neverthe lesse what I doo that will I do to cut awaye occasion from them which desyre occasion that they myght be founde lyke vnto vs in that wherin they reioyce. 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 TNT For these falce apostles are disceatefull workers and fassion them selves lyke vnto the apostles of Christ. BSB BSB: For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
14 TNT And no marvayle for satan him silfe is chaunged into the fassion of an angell of light. BSB BSB: And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
15 TNT Therfore it is no great thynge though his ministers fassion them selves as though they were the ministers of rightewesnes: whose ende shalbe acordynge to their dedes. BSB BSB: It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their actions.
Paul’s Suffering and Service (Colossians 1:24–29)
16 TNT I saye agayne lest eny man thynke that I am folishe: or els even now take me as a fole that I maye bost my silfe a lytell. 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 TNT That I speake I speake it not after the wayes of the lorde: but as it were folysshly whill we are now come to bostynge. BSB BSB: In this confident boasting of mine, I am not speaking as the Lord would, but as a fool.
18 TNT Seynge that many reioyce after the flesshe I will reioyce also. BSB BSB: Since many are boasting according to the flesh, I too will boast.
19 TNT For ye suffre foles gladly be cause that ye youre selves are wyse. BSB BSB: For you gladly put up with fools, since you are so wise.
20 TNT For ye suffre even if a man brynge you into bondage: yf a man devoure: yf a man take: yf a man exalt hym silfe: yf a man smyte you on the face. 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 TNT I speake as concernynge rebuke as though we had bene weake. How be it wherin soever eny man dare be bolde (I speake folisshly) I dare be bolde also 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 TNT They are Ebrues so am I: They are Israelites even so am I. They are the seede of Abraham even so am I. BSB BSB: Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.
23 TNT They are the ministers of Christ (I speake as a fole) I am moare: In labours moare aboundant: In strypes above measure: In preson more plenteously: In deeth ofte. 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 TNT Of the Iewes five tymes receaved I every tyme .xl. strypes saue one. BSB BSB: Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.
25 TNT Thryse was I beten with roddes. I was once stoned. I suffered thryse shipwracke. Nyght and daye have I bene in the depe of the see. 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 TNT In iorneyinge often: In parels of waters: In parels of robbers: In ieoperdies of myne awne nacion: In ieoperdies amonge the hethen. I have bene in parels in cities in parels in wildernes in parels in the see in parels amonge falce brethren 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 TNT in laboure and travayle in watchynge often in honger in thirst in fastynges often in colde and in nakednes. BSB BSB: in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.
28 TNT And besyde the thynges which outwardly happen vnto me I am combred dayly and do care for all congregacions. BSB BSB: Apart from these external trials, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.
29 TNT Who is sicke and I am not sicke? Who is hurte in the fayth and my hert burneth not? BSB BSB: Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with grief?
30 TNT Yf I must nedes reioyce I will reioyce of myne infirmities. BSB BSB: If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.
31 TNT The God and father of oure lorde Iesus Christ which is blessed for evermore knoweth that I lye not BSB BSB: The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is forever worthy of praise, knows that I am not lying.
32 TNT In the citie of Damascon the governer of the people vnder kynge Aretas layde watche in the citie of the Damasces and wolde have caught me BSB BSB: In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas secured the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me.
33 TNT and at a wyndowe was I let doune in a basket thorowe the wall and so scaped his hondes. 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.