Haweis(i)
16 I repeat it again, Let no man suppose that I am a fool; but if otherwise, then as a fool receive me, that I too may boast myself a little.
17 What I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as it were in folly in this confidence of boasting.
18 Seeing many boast themselves after the flesh, I will boast also.
19 For ye bear with fools easily when you are wise yourselves.
20 For ye bear if a man enslave you, if a man eat you up, if a man receive from you, if a man is insolent, if a man smite you on the face.
21 I speak with reference to the reproach [cast on me], as though we were feeble; but wherein any man is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
23 Are they the ministers of Christ? (I speak foolishly) I am above [them]: in labours more abundantly, in stripes exceedingly more, in prisons more frequently, in the most immediate danger of death often.
24 Of the Jews five times I have received forty stripes save one.
25 Thrice I have been scourged with rods, once I have been stoned, thrice I have suffered shipwreck, a whole night and day I have passed in the deep;
26 in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own countrymen, in perils from the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren;
27 in labour and travail, in watchings often, in fastings frequently, in hunger and thirst, in cold and nakedness;
28 and beside all these things from without, that accumulated burden which cometh on me daily, the care of all the churches.
29 Who is feeble, and am I not feeble? Who is offended, and am I not on fire?
30 If I must glory, I will glory in the things which respect my infirmities.