22. Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
23. Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labours more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.
24. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
25. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep;
26. in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my countrymen, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
27. in labour and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
28. Beside those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all the churches.
29. Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is made to stumble, and I burn not?
30. If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness.
31. The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
32. In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes, in order to take me:
33. and through a window was I let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.