27. I have done hard and tiring work, and many times I did not sleep. I have been hungry and thirsty, and many times I have been without food. I have been cold and without clothes.
28. Besides all this, there is on me every day the load of my concern for all the churches.
29. I feel weak every time someone is weak, and I feel upset every time someone is led into sin.
30. If I must brag, I will brag about the things that show I am weak.
31. God knows I am not lying. He is the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, and he is to be praised forever.
32. When I was in Damascus, the governor under King Aretas wanted to arrest me, so he put guards around the city.
33. But my friends lowered me in a basket through a hole in the city wall. So I escaped from the governor.