2 Corinthians 11:18-27 As so many are boasting of earthly things, I, too, will boast.

Twentieth_Century⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁸ As so many are boasting of earthly things, I, too, will boast. ¹⁹ For all your cleverness, you tolerate fools willingly enough! ²⁰ You tolerate a man even when he enslaves you, when he plunders you, when he gets you into his power, when he puts on airs of superiority, when he strikes you in the face! ²¹ I admit, to my shame, that we have been weak. But whatever the subject on which others are not afraid to boast--though it is foolish to say so--I am not afraid either! ²² Are they Hebrews? So am I! Are they Israelites? So am I! Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I! ²³ Are they 'Servants of Christ'? Though it is madness to talk like this, I am more so than they! I have had more of toil, more of imprisonment! I have been flogged times without number. I have been often at death's door. ²⁴ Five times I received at the hands of the Jews forty lashes, all but one. ²⁵ Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. I have spent a whole day and night in the deep. ²⁶ My journeys have been many. I have been through dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my own people, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in towns, dangers in the country, dangers on the sea, dangers among false Brothers. ²⁷ I have been through toil and hardship. I have passed many a sleepless night; I have endured hunger and thirst; I have often been without food; I have known cold and nakedness.