2 Corinthians Chapter 11
Hey, can you vibe with me for a minute while I spill some tea? Just chill for a bit, fr.
Would to God ye could bear with me a little in {my} folly: and indeed bear with me. {indeed bear...: or, indeed ye do bear with me}
I’m kinda envious of you with that holy swag; I got you committed to one dude so I can flex you to Christ like a pure queen.
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 Christ.
But I’m a bit shook, 'cause I don’t want you to get played like Eve did by the serpent and lose that simple vibe in Christ.
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 Christ.
If someone rolls up preaching a different Jesus we never discussed, or if you're catching a different spirit or gospel, you might just vibe with that too, no cap.
For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, 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}. {with him: or, with me}
I mean, I'm pretty sure I'm not lagging behind the top-tier apostles, straight up.
For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
Even if my style’s a bit sus, my knowledge is solid; we’ve shown you all the fire stuff for real.
But though {I be} rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
Did I mess up by keeping it real and humbling myself so you could level up since I dropped the gospel of God to you for free?
Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
Yeah, I lowkey took from other churches to help you out, no cap.
I robbed other churches, taking wages {of them}, to do you service.
When I was chilling with you and needed things, I didn’t charge anyone; the crew from Macedonia had my back, and I kept it chill without being a burden.
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}.
As long as Christ’s truth is in me, nobody’s gonna stop my hype about this in Achaia.
As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. {no man...: Gr. this boasting shall not be stopped in me}
Why? You think I don’t love you? God knows, fr.
Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
But what I’m doing, I’m gonna keep doing, so they can’t flex on us; whatever they hype up, they’ll be just like us.
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.
For real, these are fake apostles, sneaky folks, acting like they’re the real deal.
For such {are} false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
And it’s no shock; even Satan switches it up, rolling as an angel of light.
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
So it ain’t wild if his crew also looks like righteous peeps; their endgame will match their vibes.
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.
Just saying again, don’t think I’m a fool; but if you do, treat me like one, so I can flex a bit.
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. {receive: or, suffer}
What I’m saying ain’t from the Lord, but I’m just talking foolishly, feeling myself a bit.
That which I speak, I speak {it} not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
Since so many flex on the outside, I’m gonna flex too.
Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
You guys are cool with fools, 'cause you think you’re wise, no cap.
For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye {yourselves} are wise.
You put up with it if someone chains you, eats you up, takes from you, boosts themselves, or hits you in the face.
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.
I’m just saying, like, we’ve been through some rough stuff, but if anyone’s flexing, I can flex too, no cap.
I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
They claim to be Hebrews? Same. Israelites? Yup, that’s me. Seed of Abraham? Bet, I’m in that fam too.
Are they Hebrews? so {am} I. Are they Israelites? so {am} I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so {am} I.
Ministers of Christ? (I know I sound sus) but I’m even more lit; I’ve put in mad work, been through the struggle, and faced death a lot.
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I {am} more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
The Jews hit me up five times with forty stripes, but like, one less, ya feel?
Of the Jews five times received I forty {stripes} save one.
I’ve been beaten with rods three times, stoned once, shipwrecked three times, and chilled in the deep for a night and a day—total savage vibes.
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;
Always traveling, dodging danger from water, robbers, my own peeps, the heathens, in the city, wilderness, sea, and dealing with fake friends.
{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;
I’m out here exhausted and hurting, staying up late, hungry and thirsty, fasting frequently, and freezing with barely any clothes.
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
On top of that, I’ve got daily stress worrying about all the churches—major vibes.
Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
Who’s weak, and I’m not feeling it? Who’s offended, and I’m not burning up inside?
Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
If I gotta flex, I’ll flex on my weaknesses, fr.
If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who’s forever blessed, knows I’m not capping.
The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was flexing hard, trying to catch me.
In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
They lowered me down in a basket through a window, and I dipped outta there like a boss.
And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.