13. For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
14. And no wonder: for Satan himself transformeth himself into an angel of light.
15. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers be transformed as the ministers of justice, whose end shall be according to their works.
16. I say again, (let no man think me to be foolish, otherwise take me as one foolish, that I also may glory a little.)
17. That which I speak, I speak not according to God, but as it were in foolishness, in this matter of glorying.
18. Seeing that many glory according to the flesh, I will glory also.
19. For you gladly suffer the foolish; whereas yourselves are wise.
20. For you suffer if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take from you, if a man be lifted up, if a man strike you on the face.
21. I speak according to dishonour, as if we had been weak in this part. Wherein if any man dare (I speak foolishly), I dare also.
22. They are Hebrews: so am I. They are Israelites: so am I. They are the seed of Abraham: so am I.
23. They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
24. Of the Jews five times did I receive forty stripes, save one.
25. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I was in the depth of the sea.
26. In journeying often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own nation, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils from false brethren.