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Síðara bréf Páls til Kori 12
Icelandic Bible
Síðara bréf Páls til Kori 12
Icelandic Bible
12 Hrósa mér verð ég, þótt gagnlegt sé það ekki. En ég mun nú snúa mér að vitrunum og opinberunum Drottins.
2 Mér er kunnugt um mann, hann tilheyrir Kristi, sem fyrir fjórtán árum, _ hvort það var í líkamanum eða utan líkamans, veit ég ekki, Guð veit það _, var hrifinn burt allt til þriðja himins.
3 Og mér er kunnugt um þennan mann, _ hvort það var í líkamanum eða án líkamans, veit ég ekki, Guð veit það _,
4 að hann var hrifinn upp í Paradís og heyrði ósegjanleg orð, sem engum manni er leyft að mæla.
5 Af slíku vil ég hrósa mér, en af sjálfum mér vil ég ekki hrósa mér, nema þá af veikleika mínum.
6 Þótt ég vildi hrósa mér, væri ég ekki frávita, því að ég mundi segja sannleika. En ég veigra mér við því, til þess að enginn skuli ætla mig meiri en hann sér mig eða heyrir.
7 Og til þess að ég skuli ekki hrokast upp af hinum miklu opinberunum, er mér gefinn fleinn í holdið, Satans engill, sem slær mig, til þess að ég skuli ekki hrokast upp.
8 Þrisvar hef ég beðið Drottin þess að láta hann fara frá mér.
9 Og hann hefur svarað mér: "Náð mín nægir þér; því að mátturinn fullkomnast í veikleika." Því vil ég helst hrósa mér af veikleika mínum, til þess að kraftur Krists megi taka sér bústað í mér.
10 Þess vegna uni ég mér vel í veikleika, í misþyrmingum, í nauðum, í ofsóknum, í þrengingum vegna Krists. Þegar ég er veikur, þá er ég máttugur.
11 Ég hef gjörst frávita. Þér hafið neytt mig til þess. Ég átti heimtingu á að hljóta meðmæli af yður. Því að í engu stóð ég hinum stórmiklu postulum að baki, enda þótt ég sé ekki neitt.
12 Postulatákn voru gjörð á meðal yðar af mikilli þrautseigju, tákn, undur og kraftaverk.
13 Í hverju voruð þér settir lægra en hinir söfnuðirnir, nema ef vera skyldi í því, að ég sjálfur hef ekki verið yður til byrði? Fyrirgefið mér þennan órétt.
14 Þetta er nú í þriðja sinn, að ég er ferðbúinn að koma til yðar, og ætla ég ekki að verða yður til byrði. Ég sækist ekki eftir eigum yðar, heldur yður sjálfum. Því að ekki eiga börnin að safna fé handa foreldrunum, heldur foreldrarnir handa börnunum.
15 Ég er fús til að verja því, sem ég á, já, leggja sjálfan mig í sölurnar fyrir yður. Ef ég elska yður heitar, verð ég þá elskaður minna?
16 En látum svo vera, að ég hafi ekki verið yður til byrði, en hafi verið slægur og veitt yður með brögðum.
17 Hef ég notað nokkurn þeirra, sem ég hef sent til yðar, til þess að hafa eitthvað af yður?
18 Ég bað Títus að fara og sendi bróðurinn með honum. Hefur þá Títus haft eitthvað af yður? Komum við ekki fram í einum og sama anda? Fetuðum við ekki í sömu fótsporin?
19 Fyrir löngu eruð þér farnir að halda, að vér séum að verja oss gagnvart yður. Nei, vér tölum fyrir augliti Guðs, eins og þeir, sem tilheyra Kristi. Allt er það yður til uppbyggingar, mínir elskuðu.
20 Ég er hræddur um, að mér muni þykja þér öðruvísi en ég óska, er ég kem, og að yður muni þykja ég öðruvísi en þér óskið og á meðal yðar kunni að vera deilur, öfund, reiði, eigingirni, bakmælgi, rógburður, hroki og óeirðir.
21 Ég er hræddur um, að Guð minn muni auðmýkja mig hjá yður, þegar ég kem aftur, og að ég muni hryggjast yfir mörgum þeirra, sem áður hafa syndgað og ekki hafa snúið sér frá saurlífi, frillulífi og ólifnaði, sem þeir hafa drýgt.
2 Corinthians 12
New International Version
2 Corinthians 12
New International Version
Paul’s Vision and His Thorn
12 I must go on boasting.(A) Although there is nothing to be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations(B) from the Lord. 2 I know a man in Christ(C) who fourteen years ago was caught up(D) to the third heaven.(E) Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows.(F) 3 And I know that this man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows— 4 was caught up(G) to paradise(H) and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell. 5 I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses.(I) 6 Even if I should choose to boast,(J) I would not be a fool,(K) because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say, 7 or because of these surpassingly great revelations.(L) Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh,(M) a messenger of Satan,(N) to torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.(O) 9 But he said to me, “My grace(P) is sufficient for you, for my power(Q) is made perfect in weakness.(R)”(S) Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight(T) in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships,(U) in persecutions,(V) in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.(W)
Paul’s Concern for the Corinthians
11 I have made a fool of myself,(X) but you drove me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, for I am not in the least inferior to the “super-apostles,”[a](Y) even though I am nothing.(Z) 12 I persevered in demonstrating among you the marks of a true apostle, including signs, wonders and miracles.(AA) 13 How were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was never a burden to you?(AB) Forgive me this wrong!(AC)
14 Now I am ready to visit you for the third time,(AD) and I will not be a burden to you, because what I want is not your possessions but you. After all, children should not have to save up for their parents,(AE) but parents for their children.(AF) 15 So I will very gladly spend for you everything I have and expend myself as well.(AG) If I love you more,(AH) will you love me less? 16 Be that as it may, I have not been a burden to you.(AI) Yet, crafty fellow that I am, I caught you by trickery! 17 Did I exploit you through any of the men I sent to you? 18 I urged(AJ) Titus(AK) to go to you and I sent our brother(AL) with him. Titus did not exploit you, did he? Did we not walk in the same footsteps by the same Spirit?
19 Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? We have been speaking in the sight of God(AM) as those in Christ; and everything we do, dear friends,(AN) is for your strengthening.(AO) 20 For I am afraid that when I come(AP) I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be.(AQ) I fear that there may be discord,(AR) jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition,(AS) slander,(AT) gossip,(AU) arrogance(AV) and disorder.(AW) 21 I am afraid that when I come again my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved(AX) over many who have sinned earlier(AY) and have not repented of the impurity, sexual sin and debauchery(AZ) in which they have indulged.
Footnotes
- 2 Corinthians 12:11 Or the most eminent apostles
2 Corinthians 12
King James Version
2 Corinthians 12
King James Version
12 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
5 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.
6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.
13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.
17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?
18 I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?
19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
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