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.