^{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;

^{26 Ref} journeyings many times, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from kindred, perils from nations, perils in city, perils in wilderness, perils in sea, perils among false brethren;

^{27 Ref} in laboriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;

^{28 Ref} apart from the things without -- the crowding upon me that is daily -- the care of all the assemblies.

^{29 Ref} Who is infirm, and I am not infirm? who is stumbled, and I am not fired;

^{30 Ref} if to boast it behoveth `me', of the things of my infirmity I will boast;

^{31 Ref} the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ -- who is blessed to the ages -- hath known that I do not lie! --