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That which I speak, I speak [it] not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting (11:17) Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also (11:18) For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye [yourselves] are wise (11:19) For 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 (11:20) I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also (11:21) Are they Hebrews? so [am] I. Are they Israelites? so [am] I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so [am] I (11:22) Are 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 (11:23) Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one (11:24) Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; (11:25) [In] 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; (11:26) In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness (11:27) Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches (11:28) Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? (11:29) If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities (11:30) The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not (11:31) In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: (11:32) And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands
(11:33)
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