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24 I received thirty-nine lashes from the Jews five times.
25 I was beaten with rods three times. I was stoned once. I suffered shipwreck three times and spent a night and a day in the open water.
26 I have been on frequent journeys; in danger from rivers; in danger from thieves; in danger from my own people; in danger from the Gentiles; in danger in the city; in danger in the desert; in danger in the ocean; in danger among false brothers.
27 I have worked and suffered. I have often gone without sleep, been hungry and thirsty, often gone without food [i.e., for spiritual reasons], been cold and had inadequate clothing.
28 Besides these [kinds of] things [or, “besides these outward things”], there is the daily pressure on me of concern for all the churches.
29 Who is weak, and I do not feel their weakness? Who is led astray [from God], and I do not burn [i.e., with righteous anger over the one who caused it]?
30 If I must boast, I will boast about the things that show my weakness.
31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who should be praised forever, knows that I am not lying.
32 [When I was] in Damascus [Note: Paul here refers to his conversion. See Acts 9:1ff], the governor [who served] under King Aretas, was guarding the city of the Damascenes in order to capture me,
33 but I escaped from his hands by being lowered in a basket through a window in the [city] wall.