1Now I myself, Sha'ul, appeal to you gently in Moshiach and in his anavah (humility) I who am peh el peh (panim el panim, face to face) “lowly” among you ¹⁴⁷but have “chutzpah” with you when absent. ¹⁴⁸

2Now I beg of you that when I am present I may not have to show enough chutzpah to oppose certain persons, ¹⁴⁹the ones considering us to act according to the standards of the basar of the Olam Hazeh.

3For though walking in basar, we war not according to the basar,

4For the weapons of our warfare are not of the basar, ¹⁵⁰but full of ko'ach through Hashem to the overthrowing of strongholds, reasonings, ¹⁵¹

5And every high minded thing rising up against the da'as of Hashem, and leading captive every machshavah (thought) into the mishma'at of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, ¹⁵²

6And prepared to discipline all disobedience whenever your mishma'at (obedience) is completed. ¹⁵³

7You look at things according to outward appearance. If anyone has persuaded himself that he belongs to Moshiach, have zikaron (recollection) of this: as he is of Moshiach, so also are we.

8Now even if I should glory a little too much ¹⁵⁴in our samchut (authority) ¹⁵⁵[as Shlichim of Moshiach] which Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Adoneinu gave for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will make good my claim. ¹⁵⁶

9I did not intend to seem as if my iggrot were meant to frighten you.

10For they say, “His iggrot indeed are weighty and strong but his physical presence is weak and his shprach (diction), as far as rhetoric is concerned, is despicable.”

11Let such a one consider this: that the dvar we speak through iggrot when absent will become action we will very well do when present! ¹⁵⁷

12For we dare not to make a geder (classification) for ourselves or to compare ourselves with some of the ones commending themselves, ¹⁵⁸but when they measure themselves by the standard of one another or compare themselves with one another, they do not show seichel.

13But we will not boast out of our depth, but will be shomer to keep within the sadeh (field)Hashem has apportioned to us ¹⁵⁹which reached out even as far as you. ¹⁶⁰

14For we were not getting out of our depth when we reached even as far as you. We were the chalutzim (pioneers) who came with the Besuras HaGeulah of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.

15We do not boast out of our depth, that is, in the labor of others; but tikvateinu is that, as your emunah grows, our sphere of Shlichus (Divine mission) among you will also be enlarged,

16So that we may abundantly proclaim the Besuras HaGeulah to the regions beyond you, without boasting in someone elseʼs Messianic chalutz accomplishments.

17But HAMMIT HALLELYIT HALLEL (“The one boasting let him boast” in the L-rd); ¹⁶¹

18For it is not the one commending himself that has the haskama (approval), but it is the one to whom [Moshiach] Adoneinu gives the haskama. ¹⁶²