^{21 Ref} I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

^{22 Ref} Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

^{23 Ref} Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.

^{24 Ref} Of the Jews five times received I forty `stripes' save one.

^{25 Ref} Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep;

^{26 Ref} `in' journeyings often, `in' perils of rivers, `in' perils of robbers, `in' perils from `my' countrymen, `in' perils from the Gentiles, `in' perils in the city, `in' perils in the wilderness, `in' perils in the sea, `in' perils among false brethren;

^{27 Ref} `in' labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

^{28 Ref} Besides those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all the churches.