you, and with one that taketh you, and with one that defieth you, and with one that smote you in the face.

I say this after dishonour, as though we had become weak. Wherefore if any man be bold (I speak in folly), I am bold also.

They are Ebrews, and so am I. They are Israelites, so am I. They are Abraham’s seed, so am I.

they are servants of Christ;. (I speak foolishly) I am more, I suppose. I have worked more, I have suffered more blows, I have been imprisoned more often, often in mortal peril.

Of the Jews I have received five times forty strokes less one.

I have been beaten thrice, I have been stoned once, I have been shipwrecked thrice, I have spent day and night in the deep.

I have travelled often; I have been in danger by sea, in danger among murderers, in danger among the Jews, in danger among the Gentiles, in danger in the cities, in danger in the wilderness, in danger on the sea, in danger among false brethren, 27. In toil and labor, in much watching, in hunger and thirst, in much fasting, in frost and nakedness,

Without any other thing, that I am daily approached, and have the care of all the churches.

Who is weak, and I become not weak? Who is vexed, and I burn not?

If ever I should glory, I will glory in my infirmities.

God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for ever and ever, knoweth that I lie not.

In Damascus, the governor of king Aretas kept the city of the Damascenes, and sought to take me;

And I was let down by the wall out of a basket at the window, and escaped out of his hands.
(2 Corinthians)
Chapter 12
Paul’s glory and revelation, opposed to his repugnant ambition.

For boasting is of no profit unto me: but I will come unto the visions and revelations of the LORD.

I know a man in Christ fourteen years ago (if he was in the body, I know it not; or if he was out of the body, I know it not: God knoweth it), who was raptured unto the third heaven.

And I know the same man (whether he hath been in the body, or out of the body, I know not; God knoweth).

He was raptured into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which no man can utter.

Of this will I glory: but of myself will I not glory, except in my infirmities.

And if I would boast, I would not therefore do foolishly; for I would speak the truth. But I abstain from this, lest any man esteem me above that which he seeth in me, or heareth of me, 7. And lest I should overtake the high revelation, there is given me a stake in the flesh, even the angel of Satan to smite me with fists, lest I should overtake.

For which I cried thrice unto the LORD, that he would depart from me; 9. And he said unto me, Be thou content with my grace: for my power is mighty in the weak.
Therefore I will boast most gladly of my weakness, that the power of Christ may dwell with me].

Therefore I am of good courage in infirmities, in difficulties, in distresses, in persecutions, in anxieties for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

I became a fool for boasting; ye made me so. For I ought to be praised of you, seeing I am nothing less than the high apostles; though I am nothing.

For the signs of an apostle were done among you with all patience; with signs, and with wonders, and with deeds.

What is this wherein ye are inferior to the rest of the churches, that I myself have not afflicted you? Forgive me this sin.

Behold, I am ready to come unto you the third time, and will not afflict you: for I seek not yours, but you. For children shall not lay up treasures for their parents, but parents for their children.

But I will almost gladly expound and be set forth for your souls; though I love you almost very much, yet am loved little.

But let it be, that I have not afflicted you; but because I have been deceitful, I have taken you by guile.

And have I taken advantage of any of them whom I have sent unto you?

I exhorted Titus, and sent a brother with him. Did Titus also take advantage of you? Have we not walked in one spirit? Have we not walked in the same footsteps?

But think ye that we answer for ourselves? We speak in Christ before God: but all this, my beloved, is for your correction.

For I fear, when I come, that I shall not find you as I will, neither shall ye find me as ye will: lest there be strife, and envying, and wrath, and strife, and talking after one another, and blowing out of your ears, and uproar;

Lest I come again, and humble myself before you, my God, and be grieved for many that sinned before, and repented not of the uncleanness, and fornication, and whoredoms, which they committed.
(2 Corinthians)
Chapter 13
Exhortation to repentance.

When I come unto you the third time, then in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall all these things stand.

I told you before, and I tell you now for the present, and I write it now in absentia unto them that sinned before, and to all the rest: But when I come again, I will not spare.

For ye seek to know him that speaketh in me, even Christ, who is not weak among you, but is mighty among you.

And though he be crucified in weakness, yet he liveth in the power of God. And though we be weak in him, yet live we with him in the power of God among you.

Try yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; try yourselves. Or know ye not yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless ye be unfit.

But I hope ye will see that we are not unfit.

But I beseech God that ye do no evil, not that we may be seen to do well, but that ye may do good, and that we may be as the unprofitable.

For we cannot do anything against the truth, but for the truth.

But we rejoice when we are weak, and ye are mighty. And we also desire the same, that is, your perfection.

Wherefore I also write these things absent, lest, when I am present, I should need sharpness according to the power which the LORD hath given me to amend, and not to destroy.

Finally, brethren, rejoice, be perfect, be comforted, be of one mind, be at peace, and God will be with you of love and peace.

Greet one another with the holy kiss. All the saints greet you.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.
The other epistle to the Corinthians, sent from Philippi in Macedonia by Titus and Luke.
Text of the unrevised Luther Bible 1545:
DeepL English Translation
[Processed by BackToLuther. German text published here.]
The Letter of Paul to the Galatians ^
Chapter 1
Of Galatians’ inconstancy and Paul’s apostleship.

Paul, an apostle (not of men, nor by men, but by JESUS Christ and GOD the Father, who raised him from the dead),

And all the brethren that are with me: To the churches of Galatia.

Grace be unto you, and peace, from God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, 4. Who gave himself for our sins, that he might save us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father,

to whom be glory forever and ever! Amen.

I marvel that ye are so soon turned away from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel,

If there be none other, without that there be some that confound you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

But if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

As we have said before, so say we again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

Do I preach to men, or do I preach to God? Or do I intend to be pleasing to men? If I were still pleasing men, I would not be Christ’s servant.

But I make known unto you, brethren, that the gospel which is preached of me is not human.

For I have neither received nor learned it of any man, but by the revelation of JESUS
CHRIST.

For ye have heard my doings in the days of Judaism, how that I persecuted the congregation of God exceedingly, and cast them out.

And increased in Judaism above many of my kindred, and zealous exceedingly for the law of my father.

And it pleased God, who hath separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,

That he had manifested his Son in me, to preach him by the gospel among the Gentiles: immediately I departed, and talked not of it with flesh and blood, 17. Neither came he to Jerusalem unto them that were apostles before me, but went into Arabia, and returned to Damascus.

After these three years I came to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.

But I saw none of the other apostles, save James the brother of the Lord.

But what I write unto you, behold, God knoweth I lie not.

After that I came to the countries of Syria and Cilicia.

But I was unknown face to face unto the Christian churches which were in Judea.

But