2 Corinthians 11:21-23 as if I was inferior to them. but whatever they pretend to, (I must be so vain) I pretend to the like.

Mace⁽ⁱ⁾ ²¹ as if I was inferior to them. but whatever they pretend to, (I must be so vain) I pretend to the like. ²² Are they Hebrews? so am I: are they Israelites? so am I: are they of the race of Abraham? ²³ so am I: are they ministers of Christ? is it my vanity? I am more so: in toilsome labours I surpass them, in stripes I am exceedingly beyond them, in prisons I have been oftner, and frequently in the very jaws of death.