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16 I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then receive me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.
17 In this confident boasting of mine, I am not speaking as the Lord would, but as a fool.
18 Since, many, are boasting after the flesh, I also, will boast;
19 For you gladly tolerate fools, since you are so wise.
20 In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or exalts himself or strikes you in the face.
21 To my shame, I must say that we were too weak for that! But whatever anyone else dares to boast aboutI am speaking as a foolI also dare to boast about.
22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they among Abraham's descendants? So am I.
23 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.
24 Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.
25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.
26 I have been on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, in danger from robbers, in danger from my own countrymen, in danger from Gentiles, in danger in the city, in danger in the wilderness, in danger at sea, and in danger from false brethren;
27 in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.
28 Besides everything else, I have a daily burden because of my anxiety about all the churches.
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I do not inwardly burn?
30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.