CLV(i)
18 Since many are boasting according to the flesh, I also shall be boasting. "
19 For with relish are you bearing with the imprudent, being prudent. "
20 For you are bearing with it if anyone is enslaving you, if anyone is devouring, if anyone is obtaining, if anyone is elevating himself, if anyone is lashing you in the face. "
21 By way of dishonor am I saying this, as that we are weakened. Now in whatever anyone is daring (in imprudence am I saying it), I also am daring. "
22 Hebrews are they? I also! Israelites are they? I also! The seed of Abraham are they? I also!
23 Servants of Christ are they? (Being insane, I am speaking.) Above them am I! In weariness more exceedingly, in jails more exceedingly, in blows inordinatley, in deaths often. "
24 By Jews five times I got forty save one.
25 Thrice am I flogged with rods, once am I stoned, thrice am I shipwrecked, a night and a day have I spent in a swamp, "
26 in journeys often, in dangers of rivers, in dangers of robbers, in dangers of my race, in dangers of the nations, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers in the sea, in dangers among false brethren; "
27 in toil and labor, in vigils often, in famine and thirst, in fasts often, in cold and nakedness; "