2 Corinthians 11:16-33

16I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.1 17That which I speak, I speak it not according to the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. 18Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. 19For ye bear with fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. 20For ye bear with it, if a man bringeth you into bondage, if a man devoureth you, if a man taketh from you, if a man exalteth himself, if a man smiteth you on the face. 21I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. But in whatever respect any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

22Are they Hebrews? so amI. Are they Israelites? so amI. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. 23Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often. 24From the Jews five times I received forty stripes less one. 25Three times was I beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; 26In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by my own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; 27In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. 28Besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. 29Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is led into sin, and I am not incensed? 30If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern my infirmities. 31The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. 32In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: 33And through a window in a basket I was let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.