MLV(i)
16 I say again, not anyone should think me to be foolish; otherwise, (even if as foolish), accept me in order that I may also boast in a little something.
17 What I speak in this firmness of boasting, I do not speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness.
18 Since many are boasting according to the flesh, I will also be boasting.
19 For you are tolerating the foolish gladly, being so prudent. \ulnone\nosupersub
20 For you tolerate it, if anyone is enslaving you, if anyone is devouring you, if anyone is taking from you, if anyone is lifting himself up, if anyone is whipping you on the face.
21 I speak according to our dishonor, as though we were weak. But in whatever anyone may be daring (I speak in foolishness), I am also daring.
22 Are they Hebrews? I also. Are they Israelites? I also. Are they the seed of Abraham? I also.
23 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak, as if having insanity) I am beyond them : in labors even-more, in lashes surpassingly, in prisons even-more, in deaths often.
24 Five-times, I received forty lashes beside one from the Jews.
25 I was lashed with rods three-times. I was stoned once. I was shipwrecked three-times. I have spent a night and a day in the depth of the sea;
26 often in journeys, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils by false brethren;
27 in labor and hardship, often in sleeplessness, in famine and thirst, often in fasts, in cold and nakedness.
28 Plus there are those things which are outside, my every day pressure which is the anxiety for all the congregations.
29 Who is weak and I am not weak? Who is offended and I am not on fire?
30 If it is essential for me to be boasting, I will be boasting in the things which are from my weakness.