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.