2 Corinthians 11:16-33

Darby Translation

¹⁶ Again I say, Let not any one think me to be a fool; but if otherwise, receive me then even as a fool, that *I* also may boast myself some little.

¹⁷ What I speak I do not speak according to [the] Lord, but as in folly, in this confidence of boasting.

¹⁸ Since many boast according to flesh, *I* also will boast.

¹⁹ For ye bear fools readily, being wise.

²⁰ For ye bear if any one bring you into bondage, if any one devour [you], if any one get [your money], if any one exalt himself, if any one beat you on the face.

²¹ I speak as to dishonour, as though *we* had been weak; but wherein any one is daring, (I speak in folly,) *I* also am daring.

²² Are they Hebrews? *I* also. Are they Israelites? *I* also. Are they seed of Abraham? *I* also.

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as being beside myself) *I* above measure [so]; in labours exceedingly abundant, in stripes to excess, in prisons exceedingly abundant, in deaths oft.

²⁴ From the Jews five times have I received forty [stripes], save one.

²⁵ Thrice have I been scourged, once I have been stoned, three times I have suffered shipwreck, a night and day I passed in the deep:

²⁶ in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from [my own] race, in perils from [the] nations, in perils in [the] city, in perils in [the] desert, in perils on [the] sea, in perils among false brethren;

²⁷ in labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

²⁸ Besides those things that are without, the crowd [of cares] pressing on me daily, the burden of all the assemblies.

²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I burn not?

³⁰ If it is needful to boast, I will boast in the things which concern my infirmity.

³¹ The God and Father of the Lord Jesus knows—he who is blessed for ever—that I do not lie.

³² In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes shut up, wishing to take me;

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