^{23 Ref} ministrants of Christ are they? -- as beside myself I speak -- I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;

^{24 Ref} from Jews five times forty `stripes' save one I did receive;

^{25 Ref} thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a night and a day in the deep I have passed;