Jesus

We are not overextending our boasting as if we had not reached as far as you; for we did come all the way to you with the Good News of the Messiah.

So, let anyone who wants to boast, boast about Adonai;

because it is not the one who recommends himself who is worthy of approval, but the one whom the Lord recommends.

For I am jealous for you with God’s kind of jealousy; since I promised to present you as a pure virgin in marriage to your one husband, the Messiah;

and I fear that somehow your minds may be seduced away from simple and pure devotion to the Messiah, just as Havah was deceived by the serpent and his craftiness.

For if someone comes and tells you about some other Yeshua than the one we told you about, or if you receive a spirit different from the one you received or accept some so-called “good news” different from the Good News you already accepted, you bear with him well enough!

The truthfulness of the Messiah is in me, so that this boast concerning me is not going to be silenced anywhere in Achaia.

The fact is that such men are pseudo-emissaries: they tell lies about their work and masquerade as emissaries of the Messiah.

What I am saying is not in accordance with the Lord; rather, this conceited boasting is spoken as a fool would speak.

Are they servants of the Messiah? (I’m talking like a madman!) I’m a better one! I’ve worked much harder, been imprisoned more often, suffered more beatings, been near death over and over.

God the Father of the Lord Yeshua — blessed be he forever — knows that I am not lying!

I have to boast. There is nothing to be gained by it, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.

I know a man in union with the Messiah who fourteen years ago was snatched up to the third heaven; whether he was in the body or outside the body I don’t know, God knows.

Three times I begged the Lord to take this thing away from me;

but he told me, “My grace is enough for you, for my power is brought to perfection in weakness.” Therefore, I am very happy to boast about my weaknesses, in order that the Messiah’s power will rest upon me.

Perhaps you think that all this time we have been defending ourselves before you. No, we have been speaking in the sight of God, as those united with the Messiah should; and, my dear friends, it is all for your upbuilding.

since you are looking for proof of the Messiah speaking in me. He is not weak in dealing with you, but he is powerful among you.

For although he was executed on a stake in weakness, now he lives by God’s power. And we too are weak in union with him, but in dealing with you we will live with him by God’s power.

Examine yourselves to see whether you are living the life of trust. Test yourselves. Don’t you realize that Yeshua the Messiah is in you? — unless you fail to pass the test.

I write these things while away from you, so that when I am with you I will not have to use my authority to deal sharply with you, for the Lord gave it to me for building up and not for tearing down.

The grace of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, the love of God and the fellowship of the Ruach HaKodesh be with you all.

From: Sha’ul, an emissary — I received my commission not from human beings or through human mediation but through Yeshua the Messiah and God the Father, who raised him from the dead — also from all the brothers with me

Grace and shalom to you from God our Father and from the Lord Yeshua the Messiah,

who gave himself for our sins, so that he might deliver us from the present evil world-system, in obedience to the will of God, our Father.

I am astounded that you are so quick to remove yourselves from me, the one who called you by the Messiah’s grace, and turn to some other supposedly “Good News,”