2 Corinthians 11:21-29

Jubilee Bible 2000

²¹ I speak as concerning the reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit in that in which another is bold, (I speak foolishly), I am bold also.

²² ¶ Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

²³ Are 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.

²⁴ Of the Jews five times I received forty stripes less one.

²⁵ Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned; three times I suffered shipwreck, night and day I have been in the deep;

²⁶ in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by those of my nation, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

²⁷ in labour and travail, in many watches, in hunger and thirst, in many fasts, in cold and nakedness.

²⁸ Beside those things that are without, my daily combat is the welfare of all the congregations. {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones}

²⁹ Who is sick, and I am not sick? who stumbles, and I burn not?