2 Corinthians 11:16-33 - Paul Boasts In His Sufferings
16 Again I say, Let no one consider me to be a fool; but if not, receive me as a fool, in order that I may indeed glory some little. 17 What I say, I am not saying according to the Lord, but as it were in folly, in this confidence of glorying. 18 Since many glory in the flesh, I will glory also. 19 For cheerfully do you, being wise, bear with the foolish: 20 for you bear with them, if any one enslaves you, if any one devours you, if any one captures you, if any one is exalted against you, if any one smites you in the face. 21 I speak according to disparagement, as that we are weak; but in whatsoever any one is bold, (I speak it in folly,) I am bold also.
22 Are they Hebrews? I am also. Are they Israelites? I am also. Are they the seed of Abraham? I am also. 23 Are they the ministers of Christ? (I speak as a mad man,) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes more abundantly, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often; 24 from the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one, 25 thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a day and a night I spent in the deep. 26 Often in journeys, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, 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 labor and in toil, in vigils often, in hunger and in thirst, in fastings often, in cold and in nakedness.
28 Besides all these, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I do not burn? 30 But if it behooves me to glory, I will glory in those things appertaining to my infirmities. 31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the one being blessed forever, knows that I lie not. 32 In Damascus Areta the governor of the king, guarded the city of the Damascenes, to arrest me: 33 and through a window was I let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.