Coverdale(i)
16 I saye agayne, lest eny man thynke that I am folish: or els take me euen now as a fole, yt I maye boast my selfe a litle also.
17 That I speake now, that speake I not after the LORDE, but as it were in folishnes, whyle we are now come to boastinge:
18 Seynge that many boaste them selues after ye flesh, I wil boast my selfe also.
19 For ye suffre foles gladly, in so moch as ye youre selues are wyse.
20 For ye suffre euen yf a man brynge you in to bondage, yf a man put you to dishonesty, yf a man take ought fro you, yf a man exalte himselfe ouer you, yf a man smyte you on the face.
21 I speake concernynge rebuke, as though we were weake.Wherin so euer now eny man darre be bolde (I speake folishly) therin darre I be bolde also.
22 They are Hebrues, so am I. They are Israelites, euen so am I. They are the sede of Abraham, so am I.
23 They are the mynisters of Christ (I speake as a fole) I am more: in laboures more abudaunt, in strypes aboue measure, in presonmentes more plenteously, in death oft.
24 Of the Iewes receaued I fyue tymes fortye strypes, one lesse.
25 Thryse was I beaten with roddes. I was once stoned, I suffred thryse shypwracke: nighte and daye haue I bene in the depe of the see:
26 I haue oft iourneyed: I haue bene oft in parels of waters, in parels amonge murthurers, in parels amonge the Iewes, in parels amonge the Heythen, in parels in cities, in parels in the wylderners, in parels vpon the See, in parels amonge false brethre,
27 in laboure & trauayle, in moch watchinges, in honger and thyrst, in moch fastinges in colde and nakednesse:
28 Besyde those thynges which are outwarde, namely my daylie combraunce, my daylie care for all cogregacions.
29 Who is weake, and I be not weake? Who is offended, & I burne not?
30 Yf I must nedes make my boast, I wil boast my selfe of myne infirmyte.