06 December - 2 Corinthians 10-13

Jude Fri Nov 23, 2018 6:28 am

My soul doth magnify my YAH, and my spirit hath rejoiced in EL my Saviour; For HE that is mighty hath done to me great things; and Holy is HIS Name. Now unto HIM who is ever present in my helpless estate; who is able to keep me from falling and to present me faultless before the presence of His Glory with exceeding joy, unto the King Eternal, Immortal, Invisible, the only wise EL our Saviour be honour and glory and majesty, dominion and power both now and for ever Halleluyah!

2 CORINTHIANS 10

1And I, Sha’ul, myself appeal to you, through the meekness and gentleness of Messiah – I who am indeed lowly when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent!

2But I pray, that when I am present, I might not be bold with that bravery by which I think to be bold against some who reckon us as if we walked according to the flesh.

3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not fight according to the flesh.

4For the weapons we fight with are not fleshly but mighty in Elohim for overthrowing strongholds,

5overthrowing reasonings and every high matter that exalts itself against the knowledge of Elohim, taking captive every thought to make it obedient to the Messiah,

6and being ready to punish all disobedience, when your obedience is complete.a

7Take a look at what you are facing. If anyone seems to trust in himself that he is of Messiah, let him reckon again for himself, that as he is of Messiah, so also are we.

8For even if I should boast somewhat more about our authority, which the Master gave us for building up, and not for overthrowing you, I shall not be put to shame,

9lest I seem to frighten you away by letters.

10Because they say, “His letters are truly weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech amounts to naught.”

11Let such a one take this into account, that what we are in word by letters when absent, such we are also in deed when we are present.

12For we do not presume to count ourselves or compare ourselves with those who commend themselves. But they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.

13But we shall not boast beyond measure, but within the measure of the limits Elohim assigned unto us, to reach even to you.

14For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we did not reach to you, for we also came to you with the Good News of the Messiah,

15not boasting beyond measure in the labours of others, but having an expectation, that as your belief grows, we shall be greatly enlarged by you, according to our limits,

16to bring the Good News in the parts beyond you – not to boast in another’s limits in what has been accomplished.

17But “He who boasts, let him boast in יהוה.”a

18For not he who commends himself is approved, but he whom the Master commends.

2 CORINTHIANS 11

1I wish that you would bear with me in a little folly. But indeed, you are bearing with me.

2For I am jealous for you with a jealousy according to Elohim. For I gave you in marriage to one husband, to present you as an innocent maiden to Messiah.

3But I am afraid, lest, as the serpent deceived Ḥawwah by his trickery, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Messiah.

4For, indeed, if he who is coming proclaims another יהושע,a whom we have not proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different Good News which you have not accepted, you put up with it well enough!

5For I reckon that I am not inferior to the most eminent emissaries.

6But even if I am unskilled in word,a yet not in knowledge. Indeed, in every way we have been manifested among you in all matters.

7Or did I commit sin in humbling myself in order to exalt you, because I brought good news, the Good News of Elohim to you without being paid?

8Other assemblies I robbed, by receiving wages from them to serve you.

9And when I was present with you, and in need, I was not a burden to anyone, for what was lacking to me the brothers who came from Makedonia supplied. And in every way I kept myself – and shall keep – from being a burden to you.

10It is a truth of Messiah in me, that this boasting in me shall not be stopped in the districts of Achaia.

11Why? Is it that I do not love you? Elohim knows!

12And I shall go on doing as I do, in order to cut off the occasion from those desiring an occasion, so that in that which they boast, they might be found also as we are.

13For such are false emissaries, deceptive workers, masquerading as emissaries of Messiah.

14And no wonder! For Satan himself masquerades as a messenger of light!

15It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness,a whose end shall be according to their works!b

16Again I say, let no one think me to be a fool. And if otherwise, at least receive me as a fool, for me to also boast a little.

17What I speak, I speak not according to the Master, but as in foolishness, in this boldness of boasting.

18Since many boast according to the flesh, I too shall boast.

19For you, being wise, put up with fools gladly!

20For you put up with it if anyone enslaves you, if anyone devours you, if anyone takes from you, if anyone exalts himself, if one hits you in the face.

21To my shame, I say that we were too weak for that! But in whatever anyone is bold – I say it in foolishness – I am bold also.

22Are they Heḇrews? So am I. Are they Yisra’ĕlites? So am I. Are they the seed of Aḇraham? So am I.

23Are they servants of Messiah? – I speak as beside myself – I am more, in labours much more, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times.

24Five times I received from the Yehuḏim forty stripes less one.

25Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have been in the deep,

26in many travels, in dangers of waters, in dangers of robbers, in dangers from my own race, in dangers from the gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the desert, in dangers in the sea, in dangers among false brothers;

27in toil and hardship, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness,

28besides the matters from outside, what comes upon me daily: the anxiety for all the assemblies.

29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn inwardly?

30If I have to boast, I shall boast of matters that show up my weakness.

31The Elohim and Father of our Master יהושע Messiah, who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.

32In Damascus the governor, under Aretas the sovereign, was guarding the city of the Damascenes, wishing to seize me,

33but through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped from his hands.

2 CORINTHIANS 12

1To boast, indeed, is useless for me, for I shall go on to visions and revelations of יהוה.

2I know a man in Messiah who fourteen years ago – whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not know, Elohim knows – such a one was caught up to the third heaven.

3And I know such a man – whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, Elohim knows –

4that he was caught up into Paradise and heard unspeakable words, which it is not right for a man to speak.

5Of such a one I shall boast, but of myself I shall not boast, except in my weaknesses.

6For if I shall wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for I shall speak the truth. But I refrain, lest anyone should think more of me than what he sees in me, or hears of me.

7And to keep me from exalting myself because of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to hit me, to keep me from exalting myself.

8Concerning this I pleaded with the Master three times to take it away from me.

9And He said to me, “My favour is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, then, I shall rather boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of Messiah rests on me.

10Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for the sake of Messiah. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

11I have become a fool – you have compelled me. For I should have been commended by you, for in no respect was I behind the most eminent emissaries, though I am a nobody.

12Indeed, the signs of an emissary were wrought among you with all endurance, in signs and wonders and powers.

13For what is there in which you were inferior to other assemblies, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

14See, I am ready to come to you for the third time. And I shall not be a burden to you, for I do not seek yours, but you. For the children should not lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

15And I shall most gladly spend and be spent for your lives. If I love you more and more, am I to be loved less?

16But be it so, I did not burden you. But being crafty, did I catch you with guile?

17Did I take advantage of you by any of those whom I sent to you?

18I urged Titus, and sent our brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit – not in the same steps?

19Again, do you think that we defend ourselves to you? We speak before Elohim in Messiah. But all this, beloved, is for your upbuilding.

20For I fear lest, when I come, I do not find you such as I wish, and I be found by you such as you do not wish – lest there be strife, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, slander, gossip, puffings up, unrests,

21and lest, when I come again, my Elohim should humble me among you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned before and have not repented of the uncleanness, and whoring, and indecency which they have practised.

2 CORINTHIANS 13
1This is the third time I am coming to you. “By the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established.”a

2I have previously said, and I say beforehand, as being present the second time, and now being absent I write to those who have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I shall not spare,

3since you are seeking for proof of Messiah speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but mighty in you.

4For though He was impaled in weakness, yet He lives by the power of Elohim. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of Elohim toward you.

5Examine yourselves whether you are in the belief – prove yourselves. Or do you not know yourselves, that יהושע Messiah is in you,a unless you are disapproved.

6And I trust that you shall know that we are not disapproved.

7And we pray to Elohim that you do no evil at all – not that we should appear approved, but that you should do what is right, even though we should appear unapproved.

8For we have no power at all against the truth, but for the truth.

9For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. And this also we pray for: your perfection.a

10For this reason I write this in my absence, so that, being present I should not use sharpness, according to the authority which the Master has given me for upbuilding and not for overthrowing.

11For the rest, brothers, rejoice. Be made perfect,a be encouraged, be of one mind, live in peace. And the Elohim of love and peace shall be with you.

12Greet one another with a set-apart kiss.

13All the set-apart ones greet you.

14The favour of the Master יהושע Messiah, and the love of Elohim, and the fellowship of the Set-apart Spirit be with all of you. Amĕn.