1 Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
Laiti mngechukuliana nami katika upumbavu wangu kidogo! Naam, mchukuliane nami.
2 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.
Maana nawaonea wivu, wivu wa Mungu; kwa kuwa naliwaposea mume mmoja, ili nimletee Kristo bikira safi.
3 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.
Lakini nachelea; kama yule nyoka alivyomdanganya Hawa kwa hila yake, asije akawaharibu fikira zenu, mkauacha unyofu na usafi kwa Kristo.
4 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 .
Maana yeye ajaye akihubiri Yesu mwingine ambaye sisi hatukumhubiri, au mkipokea roho nyingine msiyoipokea, au injili nyingine msiyoikubali, mnatenda vema kuvumiliana naye!
5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
Maana nadhani ya kuwa mimi sikupungukiwa na kitu walicho nacho mitume walio wakuu.
6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
Lakini nijapokuwa mimi ni mtu asiyejua kunena, hii si hali yangu katika elimu; ila katika kila neno tumedhihirishwa kwenu.
7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
Je! Nalifanya dhambi kwa kunyenyekea ili ninyi mtukuzwe, kwa sababu naliwahubiri Injili ya Mungu bila ujira?
8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them , to do you service.
Naliwanyang'anya makanisa mengine mali yao, nikitwaa posho langu ili niwahudumie ninyi.
9 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 .
Nami nilipokuwa pamoja nanyi na kuhitaji sikumlemea mtu. Maana hao ndugu waliokuja kutoka Makedonia walinipa kadiri ya mahitaji yangu; nami katika mambo yote najilinda nafsi yangu nisiwalemee hata kidogo; tena najilinda.
10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
Kama vile ile kweli ya Kristo ilivyo ndani yangu, hakuna mtu atakayenifumba kinywa katika kujisifu huku, katika mipaka ya Akaya.
11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
Kwa nini? Je! Ni kwa sababu siwapendi ninyi? Mungu anajua.
12 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.
Lakini nifanyalo nitalifanya, ili niwapinge hao watafutao nafasi wasipate nafasi; ili kwamba katika neno hilo wajisifialo waonekane kuwa kama sisi.
13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
Maana watu kama hao ni mitume wa uongo, watendao kazi kwa hila, wanaojigeuza wawe mfano wa mitume wa Kristo.
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
Wala si ajabu. Maana Shetani mwenyewe hujigeuza awe mfano wa malaika wa nuru.
15 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.
Basi si neno kubwa watumishi wake nao wakijigeuza wawe mfano wa watumishi wa haki, ambao mwisho wao utakuwa sawasawa na kazi zao.
Paul's Defence
16 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.
Nasema tena, mtu asidhani ya kuwa mimi ni mpumbavu; lakini mjaponidhania hivi, mnikubali kama mpumbavu; ili mimi nami nipate kujisifu ngaa kidogo.
17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
Ninenalo silineni agizo la Bwana, bali kama kwa upumbavu, katika ujasiri huu wa kujisifu.
18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
Kwa sababu wengi wanajisifu kwa jinsi ya mwili, mimi nami nitajisifu.
19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
Ninyi, kwa kuwa mna akili, mnachukuliana na wajinga kwa furaha.
20 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.
Maana mwachukuliana na mtu akiwatia utumwani, akiwameza, akiwateka nyara, akijikuza, akiwapiga usoni.
21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
Nanena kwa jinsi ya kujidhili kana kwamba sisi tulikuwa dhaifu. Walakini, akiwa mtu anao ujasiri kwa lo lote, (nanena kipuuzi), mimi nami ninao ujasiri.
22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
Wao ni Waebrania? Na mimi pia. Wao ni Waisraeli? Na mimi pia. Wao ni uzao wa Ibrahimu? Na mimi pia.
23 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.
Wao ni wahudumu wa Kristo? (Nanena kiwazimu), mimi ni zaidi; katika taabu kuzidi sana; katika vifungo kuzidi sana; katika mapigo kupita kiasi; katika mauti mara nyingi.
24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
Kwa Wayahudi mara tano nalipata mapigo arobaini kasoro moja.
25 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;
Mara tatu nalipigwa kwa bakora; mara moja nalipigwa kwa mawe; mara tatu nalivunjikiwa jahazi; kuchwa kucha nimepata kukaa kilindini;
26 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;
katika kusafiri mara nyingi; hatari za mito; hatari za wanyang'anyi; hatari kwa taifa langu; hatari kwa mataifa mengine; hatari za mjini; hatari za jangwani; hatari za baharini; hatari kwa ndugu za uongo;
27 in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
katika taabu na masumbufu; katika kukesha mara nyingi; katika njaa na kiu; katika kufunga mara nyingi; katika baridi na kuwa uchi.
28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
Baghairi ya mambo ya nje, yako yanijiayo kila siku, ndiyo maangalizi ya makanisa yote.
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
Ni nani aliye dhaifu, nisiwe dhaifu nami? Ni nani aliyekwazwa nami nisichukiwe?
30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
Ikinibidi kujisifu, nitajisifia mambo ya udhaifu wangu.
31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
Mungu, Baba wa Bwana Yesu, aliye mtukufu hata milele, anajua ya kuwa sisemi uongo.
32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
Huko Dameski liwali wa mfalme Areta alikuwa akiulinda mji wa Wadameski, ili kunikamata;
33 and through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
nami nikatelemshwa ndani ya kapu, katika dirisha la ukutani, nikaokoka katika mikono yake.
