Verš 32
At Damascus, the governor of the nation under Aretas the king, watched over the city of the Damascenes, so as to apprehend me.
Sk 9:24 - But their treachery became known to Saul. Now they were also watching the gates, day and night, so that they might put him to death.
Verš 2
For I am jealous toward you, with the jealousy of God. And I have espoused you to one husband, offering you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
Lv 21:13 - He shall take a virgin as his wife.
Verš 3
But I am afraid lest, as the serpent led astray Eve by his cleverness, so your minds might be corrupted and might fall away from the simplicity which is in Christ.
Gn 3:4 - Then the serpent said to the woman: “By no means will you die a death.
Jn 8:44 - You are of your father, the devil. And you will carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning. And he did not stand in the truth, because the truth is not in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks it from his own self. For he is a liar, and the father of lies.
Verš 4
For if anyone arrives preaching another Christ, one whom we have not preached; or if you receive another Spirit, one whom you have not received; or another Gospel, one which you have not been given: you might permit him to guide you.
Gal 1:8 - But if anyone, even we ourselves or an Angel from Heaven, were to preach to you a gospel other than the one that we have preached to you, let him be anathema.
Verš 7
Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you would be exalted? For I preached the Gospel of God to you freely.
1Kor 9:12 - If others are sharers in this authority over you, why are we not more entitled? And yet we have not used this authority. Instead, we bear all things, lest we give any hindrance to the Gospel of Christ.
Verš 9
And when I was with you and in need, I was burdensome to no one. For the 668 brothers who came from Macedonia supplied whatever was lacking to me. And in all things, I have kept myself, and I will keep myself, from being burdensome to you.
Sk 20:33 - I have coveted neither silver and gold, nor apparel,
2Kor 12:13 - For what is there that you have had which is less than the other churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this injury.
1Sol 2:9 - For you remember, 678 brothers, our hardship and weariness. We preached the Gospel of God among you, working night and day, so that we would not be burdensome to any of you.
2Sol 3:8 - Nor did we eat bread from anyone for free, but rather, we worked night and day, in hardship and weariness, so as not to be burdensome to you.
Flp 4:15 - But you also know, O Philippians, that at the beginning of the Gospel, when I set out from Macedonia, not a single church shared with me in the plan of giving and receiving, except you alone.
Verš 18
Since so many glory according to the flesh, I will glory also.
2Kor 10:13 - Thus, we will not glory beyond our measure, but rather according to the measure of the limit which God has measured out to us, a measure which extends even to you.
2Kor 12:5 - On behalf of someone like this, I will glory. But on behalf of myself, I will not glory about anything, except my infirmities.
Verš 21
I speak according to disgrace, as if we had been weak in this regard. In this matter, (I speak in foolishness) if anyone dares, I dare also.
Flp 3:4 - Nevertheless, I might have confidence also in the flesh, for if anyone else seems to have confidence in the flesh, more so do I.
Verš 22
They are Hebrews; so am I. They are Israelites; so am I. They are the offspring of Abraham; so am I.
Sk 22:3 - And he said: “I am a Jewish man, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but raised in this city beside the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the truth of the law of the fathers, zealous for the law, just as all of you also are to this day.
Verš 23
They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as if I were less wise); more so am I: with many more labors, with numerous imprisonments, with wounds beyond measure, with frequent mortifications.
1Kor 15:10 - But, by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me has not been empty, since I have labored more abundantly than all of them. Yet it is not I, but the grace of God within me.
Sk 9:16 - For I will reveal to him how much he must suffer on behalf of my name.”
Sk 21:11 - And he, when he had come to us, took Paul’s belt, and binding his own feet and hands, he said: “Thus says the Holy Spirit: The man whose belt this is, the Jews will bind in this way at Jerusalem. And they will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.”
2Kor 6:4 - But in all things, let us exhibit ourselves as ministers of God with great patience: through tribulation, difficulties, and distress;
Verš 24
On five occasions, I received forty stripes, less one, from the Jews.
Dt 25:3 - Even so, these shall not exceed the number of forty. Otherwise, your brother may depart, having been wounded shamefully before your eyes.
Verš 25
Three times, I was beaten with rods. One time, I was stoned. Three times, I was shipwrecked. For a night and a day, I was in the depths of the sea.
Sk 16:22 - And the people rushed together against them. And the magistrates, tearing their tunics, ordered them to be beaten with staffs.
Sk 14:19 - But as the disciples were standing around him, he got up and entered the city. And the next day, he set out with Barnabas for Derbe.
Sk 27:9 - Then, after much time had passed, and since sailing would no longer be prudent because the Fast Day had now passed, Paul consoled them,
Sk 27:41 - And when we happened upon a place open to two seas, they ran the ship aground. And indeed, the bow, being immobilized, remained fixed, but truly the stern was broken by the violence of the sea.
Verš 28
and, in addition to these things, which are external: there is my daily earnestness and solicitude for all the churches.
Sk 20:18 - And when they had come to him and were together, he said to them: “You know that from the first day when I entered into Asia, I have been with you, for the entire time, in this manner:
Verš 29
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is scandalized, and I am not being burned?
1Kor 8:13 - Because of this, if food leads my brother to sin, I will never eat meat, lest I lead my brother to sin.
Verš 31
The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.
Rim 1:9 - For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit by the Gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I have kept a remembrance of you
Rim 9:1 - I am speaking the truth in Christ; I am not lying. My conscience offers testimony to me in the Holy Spirit,
2Kor 1:23 - But I call God as a witness to my soul, that I was lenient with you, in that I did not return to Corinth:
Gal 1:20 - Now what I am writing to you: behold, before God, I am not lying.
Flp 1:8 - For God is my witness how, within the heart of Jesus Christ, I long for all of you.
1Sol 2:5 - And neither did we, at any time, become flattering in speech, as you know, nor did we seek an opportunity for avarice, as God is witness.
2Kor 11,1 - Pavol je prinútený okolnosťami brániť sa proti nespravodlivým obvineniam protivníkov. Robí to tým, že poukazuje na svoju veľkosť. A to nazýva "nerozumnosťou".
2Kor 11,2 - Vzťah korintskej cirkvi ku Kristovi predstavuje Pavol ako vzťah ženícha a nevesty. Tento obraz je v Starom zákone dosť častý (porov. napr. Iz 62, 4–5).
2Kor 11,2 - Mimoriadny zážitok, o ktorom hovorí Pavol v tretej osobe, odohral sa 14 rokov pred napísaním listu, teda asi roku 43, a je iný ako videnie, ktoré mal niekoľko rokov predtým na ceste do Damasku. Podľa vtedajšej predstavy tretie nebo bolo sídlom Boha, kým prvým nebom bola zemská atmosféra, druhým nebo hviezd.
2Kor 11,5 - "Veľkými apoštolmi" tu nazýva Pavol ironicky pravdepodobne svojich židovčiacich protivníkov. Sú to "falošní apoštoli" (v. 13).
2Kor 11,7 - "Osteň" je bližšie neurčené utrpenie. Mohla to byť dajaká chronická choroba (porov. Gal 4, 14–15), alebo prenasledovanie zo strany Židov (porov. Rim 9, 3).
2Kor 11,8 - Olupovaním nazýva Pavol to, čo prijímal od iných cirkví, len aby mohol slúžiť Korinťanom a nebol im na ťarchu.
2Kor 11,9 - Pavol sa živil prácou svojich rúk (porov. Sk 18, 3) a podporu prijal jedine z Macedónska (porov. Flp 4, 15).
2Kor 11,11 - Azda námietka Pavlových protivníkov.
2Kor 11,16 - Ide o námietky jeho protivníkov.
2Kor 11,20 - Pavol im pripomína zneužívania, ktorých sa dopúšťali tzv. apoštoli.
2Kor 11,23 - Pavol sa chváli utrpeniami, ktoré znášal pre evanjelium. Jeho protivníci sa tiež vychvaľovali, hoci na to nemali dôvod.
2Kor 11,24 - Podľa Dt 25, 3 sa počet úderov pri bičovaní nesmel prekročiť, a preto z opatrnosti dávali o jeden úder menej.
2Kor 11,32 - Aretas IV. (9 pred Kr. – 40 po Kr.) bol nabatejským kráľom; tesť Herodesa Antipasa.
2Kor 11,33 - Porov. Sk 9, 23–25.
