I also am courageous.
011:022 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are
they descendants of Abraham? So am I.
011:023 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as if I were out of my mind.)
Much more am I His servant; serving Him more thoroughly than they
by my labours, and more thoroughly also by my imprisonments,
by excessively cruel floggings, and with risk of life
many a time.
011:024 From the Jews I five times have received forty lashes all but one.
011:025 Three times I have been beaten with Roman rods, once I have
been stoned, three times I have been shipwrecked, once for full
four and twenty hours I was floating on the open sea.
011:026 I have served Him by frequent travelling, amid dangers
in crossing rivers, dangers from robbers; dangers from my
own countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles; dangers in the city,
dangers in the Desert, dangers by sea, dangers from spies
in our midst;
011:027 with labour and toil, with many a sleepless night,
in hunger and thirst, in frequent fastings, in cold,
and with insufficient clothing.
011:028 And besides other things, which I pass over, there is that
which presses on me daily--my anxiety for all the Churches.
011:029 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led astray into sin,
and I am not aflame with indignation?
011:030 If boast I must, it shall be of things which display my weakness.
011:031 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ--He who is blessed
throughout the Ages--knows that I am speaking the truth.
011:032 In Damascus the governor under King Aretas kept guards at
the gates of the city in order to apprehend me,
011:033 but through an opening in the wall I was let down in a basket,