22. Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.
23. Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.
24. Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes less one.
25. Three times I was beaten with a rod. Once I received a stoning. Three times I suffered shipwreck. A night and a day I spent adrift in the open sea.
26. I have been on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers from false brothers,
27. in hard work and toil, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, many times without food, in cold and without enough clothing.
28. Apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxious concern for all the churches.
29. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with indignation?
30. If I must boast, I will boast about the things that show my weakness.
31. The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed forever, knows I am not lying.
32. In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus in order to arrest me,
33. but I was let down in a rope-basket through a window in the city wall, and escaped his hands.