2 Corinthians 11:16-33 - Paul Boasts In His Sufferings
16 Again I say, Let no one think me foolish. If otherwise, yet receive me as foolish, so that I may also boast a little. 17 What I speak, I do not speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this boldness of boasting. 18 Since many glory according to the flesh, I also will boast. 19 For you gladly bear with fools, being wise. 20 For you endure if anyone enslaves you, if anyone devours, if anyone takes from you, if anyone exalts himself, if anyone strikes you in the face. 21 I speak according to dishonor, as though we have been weak. But in whatever anyone dares (I speak foolishly), I also dare.
22 Are they Hebrews? I also! Are they Israelites? I also! Are they the seed of Abraham? I also! 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself,) I am more! I have been in labors more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more, in deaths many times. 24 Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I have spent a night and a day in the deep. 26 I have been in travels often; in dangers from waters; in dangers from robbers; in dangers from my race; in dangers from the heathen; in dangers in the city; in dangers in the wilderness; in dangers on the sea; in dangers among false brothers. 27 I have been in hardship and toil; often in watchings; in hunger and thirst; often in fastings; in cold and nakedness;
28 besides the things outside conspiring against me daily, the care of all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I do not burn? 30 If it is right to boast, I will boast of the things of my weakness. 31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I do not lie. 32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes, desiring to lay hold of me. 33 And I was let down in a basket through a window through the wall, and escaped their hands.