2 Corinthians 11:23–33

²³ministrants of Christ are they?—as beside myself I speak—I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times; ²⁴from Jews five times forty stripes save one I did receive; ²⁵thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a night and a day in the deep I have passed; ²⁶journeyings many times, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from kindred, perils from nations, perils in city, perils in wilderness, perils in sea, perils among false brethren; ²⁷in labouriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness; ²⁸apart from the things without—the crowding upon me that is daily—the care of all the assemblies. ²⁹Who is infirm, and I am not infirm? who is stumbled, and I am not fired; ³⁰if to boast it behoveth me, of the things of my infirmity I will boast; ³¹the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ—who is blessed to the ages—hath known that I do not lie!— ³²In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king was watching the city of the Damascenes, wishing to seize me, ³³and through a window in a rope basket I was let down, through the wall, and fled out of his hands.

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