2 Corinthians 11:16-33 - Paul Boasts In His Sufferings
16 I say again, let no one think me foolish; but, if ye do, yet as foolish receive me, that I too may glory a little. 17 What I am speaking I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting. 18 Since many glory according to the flesh, I also will glory; 19 for ye gladly bear with the foolish, being yourselves wise. 20 For ye bear with it, if one brings you into bondage, if one devours you, if one takes you captive, if one exalts himself, if one smites you on the face. 21 I speak by way of dishonor, as though we were weak; but in whatever anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I also am bold.
22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they Abraham's seed? so am I. 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often; 24 from the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one; 25 thrice I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; thrice I suffered shipwreck; a night and a day I have spent in the deep; 26 in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my countrymen, 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 toil and hardship, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
28 Apart from those things without, that which is a pressure upon me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I burn not? 30 If I must glory, I will glory in the things that pertain to my weakness. 31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who is blessed forevermore, knoweth that I lie not. 32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me; 33 and through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.