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24 Five times I have been given one less than forty lashes, by the Jews.
25 I have been beaten three times by the Romans, I have been stoned once, I have been shipwrecked three times, a night and a day I have been adrift at sea;
26 with my frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from the heathen, danger in the city, danger in the desert, danger at sea, danger from false brothers,
27 through toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, often without food, and exposed to cold.
28 And besides everything else, the thing that burdens me every day is my anxiety about all the churches.
29 Who is weak without my being weak? Whose conscience is hurt without my being fired with indignation?
30 If there must be boasting, I will boast of the things that show my weakness!
31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is forever blessed, knows that I am telling the truth.
32 When I was at Damascus, the governor under King Aretas had the city gates watched in order to catch me,
33 but I was lowered in a basket from an opening in the wall, and got out of his clutches.