2 Corinthians 11:18-27

ABU(i) 18 Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I also will boast. 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, if one exalts himself, if one smites you on the face. 21 I say it as a reproach, that we were weak. But in whatever any one is bold (I say it 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 stripes above measure, in prisons more abundantly, in deaths often; 24 of 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 by journeyings often, by perils of rivers, by perils of robbers, by perils from my countrymen, by perils from the heathen, by perils in the city, by perils in the wilderness, by perils in the sea, by perils among false brethren; 27 by weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.