⁹ What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours?

² The same things are in my mind as in yours; I am equal to you.

³ But I have a mind as well as you; I am equal to you: yes, who has not knowledge of such things as these?

³ How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!

⁴ To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?

⁷ Give attention to the things which are before you. If any man seems to himself to be Christ's, let him keep in mind that we are as much Christ's as he is.

⁵ For in my opinion, I am in no way less than the most important of the Apostles.

²¹ I say this by way of shaming ourselves, as if we had been feeble. But if anyone puts himself forward (I am talking like a foolish person), I will do the same.

²² Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they of Israel? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

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.

²⁸ In addition to all the other things, there is that which comes on me every day, the care of all the churches.

²⁹ Who is feeble and I am not feeble? who is in danger of falling, and I am not angry?

³⁰ If I have to take credit to myself, I will do so in the things in which I am feeble.