22. Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? so am I.
23. Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.
24. From the Jews five times I received 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 have been in the deep;
26. In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by my own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
27. In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
28. Besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
29. Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is made to fall into sin, and I burn not?
30. If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern my infirmities.
31. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
32. In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
33. And through a window in a basket I was let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.