2 Corinthians 11:16-33
Paul’s Suffering and Service

16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.

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17 That which I speak, I speak [it] not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

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18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.

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19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye [yourselves] are wise.

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20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour [you], if a man take [of you], if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

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21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

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22 Are they Hebrews? so [am] I. Are they Israelites? so [am] I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so [am] I.

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23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I [am] more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

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24 Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one.

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25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;

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26 [In] journeyings often, [in] perils of waters, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils by [mine 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 brethren;

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27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

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28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

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29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

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30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.

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31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

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32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:

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33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.

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