²⁶ Men who have given up their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁹ But some Jews came to that place from Antioch and Iconium, and got control over the people; and after stoning Paul, they had him pulled out of the town, taking him for dead.

²³ Then, after some days, the Jews made an agreement together to put him to death:

²⁴ But Saul got knowledge of their design. And they kept watch day and night on the roads out of the town, so that they might put him to death:

²⁵ But his disciples took him by night and let him down from the wall in a basket.

¹⁸ It was the people of Zebulun who put their lives in danger, even to death, with Naphtali on the high places of the field.

⁵⁰ But the Jews, working up the feelings of the God-fearing women of high position and of the chief men of the town, got an attack started against Paul and Barnabas, driving them out of those parts.

³⁰ And why are we in danger every hour?

²³ Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking foolishly) I am more so; I have had more experience of hard work, of prisons, of blows more than measure, of death.

²⁴ Five times the Jews gave me forty blows but one.

²⁵ Three times I was whipped with rods, once I was stoned, three times the ship I was in came to destruction at sea, a night and a day I have been in the water;

²⁶ In frequent travels, in dangers on rivers, in dangers from outlaws, in dangers from my countrymen, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the town, in dangers in the waste land, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brothers;

²⁷ In hard work and weariness, in frequent watchings, going without food and drink, cold and in need of clothing.

²⁹ So take him to your hearts in the Lord with all joy, and give honour to such as he is:

³⁰ Because for the work of Christ he was near to death, putting his life in danger to make your care for me complete.