2 Corinthians 11:22-33

22Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.

23Are they [self-proclaimed] servants of Christ?—I am speaking as if I were out of my mind—I am more so [for I exceed them]; with far more labors, with far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, and often in danger of death.

24Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine lashes.

25Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent adrift on the sea;

26many times on journeys, [exposed to] danger from rivers, danger from bandits, danger from my own countrymen, danger from the Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger on the sea, danger among those posing as believers;

27in labor and hardship, often unable to sleep, in hunger and thirst, often [driven to] fasting [for lack of food], in cold and exposure [without adequate clothing].

28Besides those external things, there is the daily [inescapable] pressure of my concern for all the churches.

29Who is weak, and I do not feel [his] weakness? Who is made to sin, and I am not on fire [with sorrow and concern]?

30If I must boast, I will boast of the things that reveal my weakness [the things by which I am made weak in the eyes of my opponents].

31The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is blessed and to be praised forevermore, knows that I am not lying.

32In Damascus the governor (ethnarch) under King Aretas guarded the city of Damascus in order to arrest me,

33and I was [actually] let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and slipped through his fingers.