1 انه لا يوافقني ان افتخر. فاني آتي الى مناظر الرب واعلاناته. | 1 I am boasting because I have to. Not that it does any good, but I wil move on to visions andrevelations from the Lord. |
2 اعرف انسانا في المسيح قبل اربع عشرة سنة أفي الجسد لست اعلم ام خارج الجسد لست اعلم. الله يعلم. اختطف هذا الى السماء الثالثة. | 2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago -- stil in the body? I do not know; or out of the body? Ido not know: God knows -- was caught up right into the third heaven. |
3 واعرف هذا الانسان أفي الجسد ام خارج الجسد لست اعلم. الله يعلم. | 3 And I know that this man -- stil in the body? or outside the body? I do not know, God knows- |
4 انه اختطف الى الفردوس وسمع كلمات لا ينطق بها ولا يسوغ لانسان ان يتكلم بها. | 4 was caught up into Paradise and heard words said that cannot and may not be spoken by any humanbeing. |
5 من جهة هذا افتخر. ولكن من جهة نفسي لا افتخر الا بضعفاتي. | 5 On behalf of someone like that I am wil ing to boast, but I am not going to boast on my own behalfexcept of my weaknesses; |
6 فاني ان اردت ان افتخر لا اكون غبيا لاني اقول الحق. ولكني اتحاشى لئلا يظن احد من جهتي فوق ما يراني او يسمع مني. | 6 and then, if I do choose to boast I shal not be talking like a fool because I shal be speaking the truth.But I wil not go on in case anybody should rate me higher than he sees and hears me to be, because of theexceptional greatness of the revelations. |
7 ولئلا ارتفع بفرط الاعلانات اعطيت شوكة في الجسد ملاك الشيطان ليلطمني لئلا ارتفع. | 7 Wherefore, so that I should not get above myself, I was given a thorn in the flesh, a messenger fromSatan to batter me and prevent me from getting above myself. |
8 من جهة هذا تضرعت الى الرب ثلاث مرات ان يفارقني. | 8 About this, I have three times pleaded with the Lord that it might leave me; |
9 فقال لي تكفيك نعمتي لان قوتي في الضعف تكمل. فبكل سرور افتخر بالحري في ضعفاتي لكي تحل علي قوة المسيح. | 9 but he has answered me, 'My grace is enough for you: for power is at ful stretch in weakness.' It is,then, about my weaknesses that I am happiest of al to boast, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me; |
10 لذلك اسر بالضعفات والشتائم والضرورات والاضطهادات والضيقات لاجل المسيح. لاني حينما انا ضعيف فحينئذ انا قوي | 10 and that is why I am glad of weaknesses, insults, constraints, persecutions and distress for Christ'ssake. For it is when I am weak that I am strong. |
11 قد صرت غبيا وانا افتخر. انتم الزمتموني لانه كان ينبغي ان امدح منكم اذ لم انقص شيئا عن فائقي الرسل وان كنت لست شيئا. | 11 I have turned into a fool, but you forced me to it. It is you that should have been commending me;those super-apostles had no advantage over me, even if I am nothing at all. |
12 ان علامات الرسول صنعت بينكم في كل صبر بآيات وعجائب وقوات. | 12 Al the marks characteristic of a true apostle have been at work among you: complete perseverance,signs, marvels, demonstrations of power. |
13 لانه ما هو الذي نقصتم عن سائر الكنائس الا اني انا لم اثقل عليكم. سامحوني بهذا الظلم. | 13 Is there any way in which you have been given less than the rest of the churches, except that I didnot make myself a burden to you? Forgive me for this unfairness! |
14 هوذا المرة الثالثة انا مستعد ان آتي اليكم ولا اثقل عليكم. لاني لست اطلب ما هو لكم بل اياكم. لانه لا ينبغي ان الاولاد يذخرون للوالدين بل الوالدون للاولاد. | 14 Here I am, ready to come to you for the third time and I am not going to be a burden on you: it is notyour possessions that I want, but yourselves. Children are not expected to save up for their parents, but parentsfor their children, |
15 واما انا فبكل سرور انفق وانفق لاجل انفسكم وان كنت كلما احبكم اكثر أحب اقل. | 15 and I am more than glad to spend what I have and to be spent for the sake of your souls. Is itbecause I love you so much more, that I am loved the less? |
16 فيلكن. انا لم اثقل عليكم لكن اذ كنت محتالا اخذتكم بمكر. | 16 Al right, then; I did not make myself a burden to you, but, trickster that I am, I caught you by trickery. |
17 هل طمعت فيكم باحد من الذين ارسلتهم اليكم. | 17 Have I taken advantage of you through any of the people I have sent to you? |
18 طلبت الى تيطس وارسلت معه الاخ. هل طمع فيكم تيطس. أما سلكنا بذات الروح الواحد. أما بذات الخطوات الواحدة | 18 Titus came at my urging, and I sent his companion with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Canyou deny that he and I were fol owing the guidance of the same Spirit and were on the same tracks? |
19 أتظنون ايضا اننا نحتج لكم. امام الله في المسيح نتكلم. ولكن الكل ايها الاحباء لاجل بنيانكم. | 19 Al this time you have been thinking that we have been pleading our own cause before you; no, wehave been speaking in Christ and in the presence of God -- and all, dear friends, to build you up. |
20 لاني اخاف اذا جئت ان لا اجدكم كما اريد وأوجد منكم كما لا تريدون. ان توجد خصومات ومحاسدات وسخطات وتحزبات ومذمات ونميمات وتكبرات وتشويشات. | 20 I am afraid that in one way or another, when I come, I may find you different from what I should likeyou to be, and you may find me what you would not like me to be; so that in one way or the other there wil berivalry, jealousy, bad temper, quarrels, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorders; |
21 ان يذلني الهي عندكم اذا جئت ايضا وانوح على كثيرين من الذين اخطأوا من قبل ولم يتوبوا عن النجاسة والزنى والعهارة التي فعلوها | 21 and when I come again, my God may humiliate me in front of you and I shal be grieved by all thosewho sinned in the past and have stil not repented of the impurities and sexual immorality and debauchery thatthey have committed. |