2 Corinthians 11:16-33 - Paul Boasts In His Sufferings
16 I say again, let no man think me foolish. If you do, yet receive me as foolish that I also may boast a little. 17 That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting. 18 Seeing that many boast according to the flesh, I will boast also. 19 You being wise tolerate the foolish. 20 You suffer, if a man brings you into bondage, if a man devours you, if a man takes advantage of you, if a man exalts himself, if a man strikes you on the face. 21 I speak concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. If any are bold, I speak foolishly for I am also bold.
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 a fool. I am more in labors more abundant, beaten beyond number, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often. 24 Of the Jews five times I received forty stripes less one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, I suffered shipwreck three times, a night and a day I have spent in the deep. 26 In journeys 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 brothers; 27 In weariness and painfulness, in watching often, in hunger and thirst, in fasting often, in cold and nakedness.
28 Beside those things that are from the outside, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the congregations. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I do not burn with indignation? 30 If I need to boast, I will boast about the things that concern my infirmities. 31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed forever knows I do not lie. 32 The governor under King Aretas put guards around the city of Damascus to catch me. 33 So I was let down in a basket through an opening in the wall and escaped from him.