12. But what I do, I will also do, that I may cut off the opportunity of those wishing for an opportunity, that wherein they boast they may be found even as we.
13. For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.
14. And it is not wonderful, for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.
15. It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
16. Again I say, Let not any one think me to be a fool; but if otherwise, receive me then even as a fool, that I also may boast myself some little.
17. What I speak I do not speak according to the Lord, but as in folly, in this confidence of boasting.
18. Since many boast according to flesh, I also will boast.
19. For ye bear fools readily, being wise.
20. For ye bear if any one bring you into bondage, if any one devour you, if any one get your money, if any one exalt himself, if any one beat you on the face.
21. I speak as to dishonour, as though we had been weak; but wherein any one is daring, (I speak in folly,) I also am daring.
22. Are they Hebrews? I also. Are they Israelites? I also. Are they seed of Abraham? I also.
23. Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as being beside myself) I above measure so; in labours exceedingly abundant, in stripes to excess, in prisons exceedingly abundant, in deaths oft.
24. From the Jews five times have I received forty stripes, save one.
25. Thrice have I been scourged, once I have been stoned, three times I have suffered shipwreck, a night and day I passed in the deep:
26. in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the nations, in perils in the city, in perils in thedesert, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren;
27. in labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
28. Besides those things that are without, the crowd of cares pressing on me daily, the burden of all the assemblies.
29. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I burn not?
30. If it is needful to boast, I will boast in the things which concern my infirmity.