23 Are they servants of Christ?
I’m talking like a madman—I’m a better one:
with far more labors,
many more imprisonments,
far worse beatings, near death[a] many times.
24 Five times I received 39 lashes from Jews.(A)
25 Three times I was beaten with rods by the Romans.(B)
Once I was stoned by my enemies.[b](C)
Three times I was shipwrecked.(D)
I have spent a night and a day
in the open sea.
26 On frequent journeys, I faced
dangers from rivers,
dangers from robbers,(E)
dangers from my own people,(F)
dangers from the Gentiles,
dangers in the city,
dangers in the open country,
dangers on the sea,
and dangers among false brothers;
27 labor and hardship,
many sleepless nights, hunger and thirst,
often without food, cold, and lacking clothing.(G)

28 Not to mention[c] other things, there is the daily pressure on me: my care for all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble,(H) and I do not burn with indignation? 30 If boasting is necessary, I will boast about my weaknesses.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 11:23 Lit and in deaths
  2. 2 Corinthians 11:25 A common Jewish method of capital punishment; Ac 14:5
  3. 2 Corinthians 11:28 Lit Apart from

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