2 Corinthians 11:16-33 - Paul Boasts In His Sufferings
16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; but if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I also may boast a little. 17 What I speak, I speak not after the Lord; but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. 18 Seeing many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. 19 For ye, being wise, suffer fools willingly. For ye suffer, if a man inslave you, 20 if he devour you, if he take from you, if he exalt himself, if he smite you on the face. 21 I speak with regard to reproach, as though we had been weak: whereas in whatever any is confident, (I speak as a fool) I am confident also.
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 foolishly) I more: in labours more abundantly, in stripes more exceedingly, in prisons more abundantly, in deaths often. 24 Five times I received from the Jews forty stripes save one. 25 Thrice I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I have been shipwrecked, a day and a night I passed in the deep: In journeyings often, 26 in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from the heathen; in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers in the sea, in dangers among false brethren: 27 In labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
28 Beside the things which are from without, that which rusheth upon me daily, the care of all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I burn not? 30 Since I must glory, I will glory of the things that concern my infirmities. 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for ever, knoweth that I lie not. 32 In Damascus the governor under king Aretas, kept the city of the Damascenes with a guard, being determined to apprehend me. 33 But I was let down through a window in a basket by the wall, and escaped from his hands.