^{18 Ref} Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.

^{19 Ref} For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.

^{20 Ref} For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.

^{21 Ref} I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet however 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 servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

^{24 Ref} Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one.

^{25 Ref} Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.

^{26 Ref} I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

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