2 Cor 11:21 To my shame I must say that we have been weak by comparison. ¶ But in whatever respect anyone else is bold--I speak in foolishness--I am just as bold myself.
2 Cor 11:23 Are they servants of Christ?--I speak as if insane--I more so; in far more labors, in far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, often in danger of death.
2 Cor 11:24 Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine lashes.
2 Cor 11:25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent in the deep.
2 Cor 11:26I have been on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers on the sea, dangers among false brethren;
2 Cor 11:27I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.
2 Cor 11:28 Apart from such external things, there is the daily pressure on me of concern for all the churches.
2 Cor 11:29 Who is weak without my being weak? Who is led into sin without my intense concern?
2 Cor 11:30 ¶ If I have to boast, I will boast of what pertains to my weakness.
2 Cor 11:31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.
2 Cor 11:32 In Damascus the ethnarch under Aretas the king was guarding the city of the Damascenes in order to seize me,
2 Cor 11:33 and I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and so escaped his hands.
2 Cor 12:1 Boasting is necessary, though it is not profitable; but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2 Cor 12:2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago--whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know, God knows--such a man was caught up to the third heaven.
2 Cor 12:3 And I know how such a man--whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows--
2 Cor 12:4 was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which a man is not permitted to speak.
2 Cor 12:5 On behalf of such a man I will boast; but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in regard to my weaknesses.
2 Cor 12:6 For if I do wish to boast I will not be foolish, for I will be speaking the truth; but I refrain fromthis, so that no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me.
2 Cor 12:7 Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me--to keep me from exalting myself!
2 Cor 12:8 Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me.