RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

24 From the unbelieving Yahudim five times I received
thirty-nine stripes.
25 Three times was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned,
three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have
been in the deep;
26 In many journeys, often, in perils of mayim, in perils
of robbers, in perils by my 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
brothers;
27 In toils and hardships, in making tefillot often, in
hunger and thirst, in much fasting, in cold and in
nakedness.
28 Besides those things that are outside attacks and
pressures, that which comes upon me daily, the care and
well being of all the Yisraelite congregations.
29 Who is sick, that I do not feel their pain? Who
stumbles in their halacha, and does not have my inward
sympathy?
30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern
my own sufferings and weaknesses.
31 The tvkt and Abba of our Master gauvh ha
Moshiach, who is blessed le-olam-va-ed, knows that I do
not lie.
32 In Dameshek the governor under Aretas the melech
guarded the city of Dameshek with a guard, who desired
to apprehend me:
33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by
the wall, and escaped from his hands.
12
To boast is indeed useless for me. I prefer to relate
visions and revelations of vuvh.
2 I knew a man in Moshiach about fourteen years ago –
whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the
body, I cannot tell: 5978 vuvh knows – such a one was
caught up to the third shamayim. 5979
3 And I knew such a man – whether in the body, or out of
the body, I cannot tell: vuvh knows –
4 How he was caught up into Paradise, and heard
unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to
utter. 5980
5 In such a one will I boast: yet about myself I will not
boast anymore, except in my weaknesses.
6 For though I would desire to boast more, I shall not be a
fool; for I speak the emet: but now I will stop, lest any
man should think of me above that which he sees me to
be, or that he hears me to be.
7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the
abundance of the revelations I have received, there was
given to me a thorn in the flesh, a malach of s.a.tan to
buffet me, lest I should exalt myself.
8 For this thing I sought vuvh three times, that it might
depart from me.
9 And He said to me, My unmerited favor is sufficient for
you: for My strength is made perfect in your weakness.
With great gilah therefore will I rather boast in my
weaknesses, so that the power of Moshiach may rest upon
me.
10 Therefore I take pleasure in my weaknesses, in
reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses
for Moshiach’s sake: for when I am physically weak, then
am I spiritually strong.
11 I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled
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me: for I should have been commended by you: for in
nothing am I behind the most distinguished of the
shlichim, though I be nothing.
12 Truly the signs of a sholiach were done among you in
all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty mitzvoth.
13 For in what manner were you inferior to other
Yisraelite congregations, except 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 nothing from
you but just yourselves: for children should not provide
for the parents, but the parents for the children.
15 And I will very willingly pay my expenses and give all
of myself for your beings; yet the more I love you, the
less I am loved.
16 But so be it, I did not burden you: nevertheless, as a
shrewd man, I caught you with your guile.
17 Did I make any financial gain from you, by any of
them whom I sent to you?
18 I urged Teitus to go to you, and with him I sent a
brother. Did Teitus make a gain of you? Did not we have
the same Ruach-led halacha? Was not our halacha in the
same steps?
19 Again, do you think that we still need to keep
defending and apologizing to you? We speak before vuvh
in the Moshiach: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for
you to be built up.
20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you the
way I would like, and that I shall act among you as you
would not like: lest there be strife, jealousy, anger,
contention, slander, gossip, boasting, and tumults:
21 And perhaps, when I come again, my tvkt will
humble me, as I shall bewail many who have sinned
already, and have not made teshuvah of the uncleanness
and fornication and indecency that they have committed.
13
This is the third time I am coming to you. In the
mouth of two, or three witnesses shall every word be
established.
2 I told you before, and say again before I come, as if I
were present, as on my second visit; I write to those who
keep sinning until now and have not made teshuvah, and
to all others, that, if I come again, I will not spare, though
I am absent now:
3 Since you seek a proof of Moshiach speaking through
me, who has never been powerless among you, but
powerful among you:
4 For though He was impaled through weakness, yet He
lives by the power of vuvh. For we also are weak in Him,
but we shall live with Him by the power of vuvh towards
you.
5 Examine yourselves, whether you be in the emunah; test
yourselves. Don’t you know yourself, that gauvh ha
Moshiach is in you, unless you are rejects?
6 But I trust that you shall know that we are not rejected.
7 Now I make tefillah to vuvh that you do no evil; not so
that we should appear approved, but that you should do
that which is honest, though we may appear to be rejects
before you.
8 For we can do nothing against the emet, but for the
emet.
9 For we are in simcha, when we are weak, and you are
strong: and this also we wish, even your