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2 Corinthians 11:10

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

As surely as I speak the truth about Christ, no one in Achaia can stop me from boasting about this.

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While Gallio was governor of Achaia, some of the Jewish leaders got together and grabbed Paul. They brought him into court

Apollos decided to travel through Achaia. So the Lord's followers wrote letters, encouraging the followers there to welcome him. After Apollos arrived in Achaia, he was a great help to everyone who had put their faith in the Lord Jesus because of God's kindness.

God has seen how I never stop praying for you, while I serve him with all my heart and tell the good news about his Son.

Greet the church that meets in their home. Greet my dear friend Epaenetus, who was the first person in Asia to have faith in Christ.

I am a follower of Christ, and the Holy Spirit is a witness to my conscience. So I tell the truth and I am not lying when I say

You know that Stephanas and his family were the first in Achaia to have faith in the Lord. They have done all they can for God's people. My friends, I ask you

From Paul, chosen by God to be an apostle of Jesus Christ, and from Timothy, who is also a follower. To God's church in Corinth and to all God's people in Achaia.

God is my witness that I stayed away from Corinth, just to keep from being hard on you.

We don't boast about what others have done, as if we had done those things ourselves. But I hope that as you become stronger in your faith, we will be able to reach many more of the people around you. That has always been our goal.

I plan to go on doing just what I have always done. Then those people won't be able to boast about doing the same things we are doing.

God, the Father of our Lord Jesus, knows I am not lying. And God is to be praised for ever!

Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? Actually, we have been speaking to God as followers of Christ. But, my friends, we did it all for your good.

I know how eager you are to give. And I have proudly told the Lord's followers in Macedonia that you people in Achaia have been ready for a whole year. Now your desire to give has made them want to give.

And in the presence of God I swear I am telling the truth.

I have died, but Christ lives in me. And I now live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave his life for me.

Both you and God are witnesses that we were pure and honest and innocent in our dealings with you followers of the Lord.

You also know that we didn't try to flatter anyone. God himself knows that what we did wasn't a cover-up for greed.

This is why God chose me to be a preacher and an apostle of the good news. I am telling the truth. I am not lying. God sent me to teach the Gentiles about faith and truth.




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