17. What I am saying is not said according to God, but as if in foolishness, in this matter of glorying.
18. Since so many glory according to the flesh, I will glory also.
19. For you freely accept the foolish, though you yourselves claim to be wise.
20. For you permit it when someone guides you into servitude, even if he devours you, even if he takes from you, even if he is extolled, even if he strikes you repeatedly on the face.
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.
22. They are Hebrews; so am I. They are Israelites; so am I. They are the offspring of Abraham; so am I.
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.
24. On five occasions, I received forty stripes, less one, from the Jews.