⁹ What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?

² What ye know, `the same' do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

³ But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

³ How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, And plentifully declared sound knowledge!

⁴ To whom hast thou uttered words? And whose spirit came forth from thee?

⁷ Ye look at the things that are before your face. If any man trusteth in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also are we.

⁵ For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

²¹ 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 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 one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.

²⁴ Of the Jews five times received I forty `stripes' save one.

²⁵ 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 `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 `in' labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

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

²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is caused to stumble, and I burn not?

³⁰ If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness.