16

I say again, Let no man think me a fool if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.

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That which I speak, I speak [it] not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

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Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.

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For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye [yourselves] are wise.

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For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour [you], if a man take [of you], if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

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I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

22

Are they Hebrews? so [am] I. Are they Israelites? so [am] I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so [am] I.

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Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I [am] more in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, 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 I have been in the deep

26

[In] journeyings often, [in] perils of waters, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils by [mine 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

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In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

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Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

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Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

30

If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.

31

The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which 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:

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And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.