| 第1段 | |
| 中文： | 我自夸固然无益，但我是不得已的。如今我要说到主的显现和启示。 |
| 英文： | It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. |
| 第2段 | |
| 中文： | 我认得一个在基督里的人，他前十四年被提到第三层天上去。或在身内，我不知道。或在身外，我也不知道。只有神知道。 |
| 英文： | I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. |
| 第3段 | |
| 中文： | 我认得这人，或在身内，或在身外，我都不知道。只有神知道。 |
| 英文： | And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) |
| 第4段 | |
| 中文： | 他被提到乐园里，听到隐秘的言语，是人不可说的。 |
| 英文： | How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. |
| 第5段 | |
| 中文： | 为这人，我要夸口。但是为我自己，除了我的软弱以外，我并不夸口。 |
| 英文： | Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities. |
| 第6段 | |
| 中文： | 我就是愿意夸口，也不算狂。因为我必说实话。只是我禁止不说，恐怕有人把我看高了，过于他在我身上所看见所听见的。 |
| 英文： | For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me. |
| 第7段 | |
| 中文： | 又恐怕我因所得的启示甚大，就过于自高，所以有一根刺加在我肉体上，就是撒但的差役，要攻击我，免得我过于自高。 |
| 英文： | And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. |
| 第8段 | |
| 中文： | 为这事，我三次求过主，叫这刺离开我。 |
| 英文： | For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. |
| 第9段 | |
| 中文： | 他对我说，我的恩典够你用的。因为我的能力，是在人的软弱上显得完全。所以我更喜欢夸自己的软弱，好叫基督的能力覆庇我。 |
| 英文： | And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. |
| 第10段 | |
| 中文： | 我为基督的缘故，就以软弱，凌辱，急难，逼迫，困苦，为可喜乐的。因我什么时候软弱，什么时候就刚强了。 |
| 英文： | Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. |
| 第11段 | |
| 中文： | 我成了愚妄人，是被你们强逼的。我本该被你们称许才是。我算不了什么，却没有一件事在那些最大的使徒以下。 |
| 英文： | I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing. |
| 第12段 | |
| 中文： | 我在你们中间，用百般的忍耐，藉着神迹奇事异能，显出使徒的凭据来。 |
| 英文： | Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. |
| 第13段 | |
| 中文： | 除了我不累着你们这一件事，你们还有什么事不及别的教会呢。这不公之处，求你们饶恕我吧。 |
| 英文： | For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong. |
| 第14段 | |
| 中文： | 如今我打算第三次到你们那里去，也必不累着你们，因我所求的是你们，不是你们的财物。儿女不该为父母积财，父母该为儿女积财。 |
| 英文： | Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. |
| 第15段 | |
| 中文： | 我也甘心乐意为你们的灵魂费财费力。难道我越发爱你们，就越发少得你们的爱吗。 |
| 英文： | And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. |
| 第16段 | |
| 中文： | 吧了，我自己并没有累着你们，你们却有人说，我是诡诈，用心计牢笼你们。 |
| 英文： | But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. |
| 第17段 | |
| 中文： | 我所差到你们那里去的人，我藉着他们一个人占过你们的便宜吗。 |
| 英文： | Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? |
| 第18段 | |
| 中文： | 我劝了提多到你们那里去，又差那位兄弟与他同去。提多占过你们的便宜吗。我们行事，不同是一个心灵吗。不同是一个脚踪吗。（心灵或作圣灵）。 |
| 英文： | I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps? |
| 第19段 | |
| 中文： | 你们到如今，还想我们是向你们分诉。我们本是在基督里当神面前说话。亲爱的弟兄阿，一切的事，都是为造就你们。 |
| 英文： | Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying. |
| 第20段 | |
| 中文： | 我怕我再来的时候，见你们不合我所想望的，你们见我也不合你们所想望的。又怕有分争，嫉妒，恼怒，结党，毁谤，才言，狂傲，混乱的事。 |
| 英文： | For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: |
| 第21段 | |
| 中文： | 且怕我来的时候，我的神叫我在你们面前渐愧。又因许多人从前犯罪，行污秽奸淫邪荡的事，不肯悔改，我就忧愁。 |
| 英文： | And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed. |