Thematic Bible: Self-sacrifice


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five times I received of the Jews forty [stripes] lacking one, thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice have I been shipwrecked, a night and a day have I spent in the deep; often on journeys, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from [my own] race, in dangers from gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers on the sea, in dangers among false brothers, read more.
in labor and weariness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides things without, 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 am not displeased? If it is necessary to boast, I will boast of my infirmities. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I lie not. In Damascus, the ethnarch, when Aretas was king, guarded the city of the Damascenes, desiring to take me, and I was let down in a rope-basket, by a window in the wall, and escaped from his hands.