from the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one, thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a day and a night I spent in the deep. 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; read more.
in labor and in toil, in vigils often, in hunger and in thirst, in fastings often, in cold and in nakedness. Besides all these, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I do not burn? But if it behooves me to glory, I will glory in those things appertaining to my infirmities. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the one being blessed forever, knows that I lie not. In Damascus Areta the governor of the king, guarded the city of the Damascenes, to arrest me: and through a window was I let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands.