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¹⁶I say again, let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
¹⁷That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
¹⁸Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
¹⁹For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
²⁰For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
²¹I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
²²Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
²³Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
²⁴Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
²⁵Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
²⁶In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
²⁷In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
²⁸Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
²⁹Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
³⁰If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
³¹The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
³²In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
³³And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.