2 Corinthians 11:22-33

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

23Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death.

24Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one.

25Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea;

26on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers;

27in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.

28And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches.

29Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?

30If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.

31The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.

32At Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus in order to seize me,

33but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his hands.