²² Are they Hebrews? So am I.^(A) Are they Israelites? So am I.^(B) Are they Abraham’s descendants? So am I.^{(C) 23} Are they servants of Christ?^(D) (I am out of my mind to talk like this.) I am more. I have worked much harder,^(E) been in prison more frequently,^(F) been flogged more severely,^(G) and been exposed to death again and again.^{(H) 24} Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes^(I) minus one. ²⁵ Three times I was beaten with rods,^(J) once I was pelted with stones,^(K) three times I was shipwrecked,^(L) I spent a night and a day in the open sea, ²⁶ I have been constantly on the move. I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my fellow Jews,^(M) in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city,^(N) in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false believers.^{(O) 27} I have labored and toiled^(P) and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food;^(Q) I have been cold and naked. ²⁸ Besides everything else, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.^{(R) 29} Who is weak, and I do not feel weak?^(S) Who is led into sin,^(T) and I do not inwardly burn?

³⁰ If I must boast, I will boast^(U) of the things that show my weakness.^{(V) 31} The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is to be praised forever,^(W) knows^(X) that I am not lying. ³² In Damascus the governor under King Aretas had the city of the Damascenes guarded in order to arrest me.^{(Y) 33} But I was lowered in a basket from a window in the wall and slipped through his hands.^(Z)