2 Corinthians 11:16-30 Again I say, let no one think me a fool. But should anyone do so, at least receive me as a fool, that I also may boast a little bit.

WPNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁶ Again I say, let no one think me a fool. But should anyone do so, at least receive me as a fool, that I also may boast a little bit. ¹⁷ What I am going to say I do not say according to the Lord, but as though foolishly, in this confident boasting. ¹⁸ Since many are boasting according to the flesh, I will too ¹⁹ (for you put up with fools gladly, being so wise yourselves!). ²⁰ In fact, you even put up with someone who enslaves you, who ‘devours’ you, who takes advantage, who exalts himself, who beats on your face! ²¹ Is it disrespectful to say that we were ‘weak’? In whatever anyone is bold (I speak foolishly) I am bold also. ²² Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I. ²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I’m being irrational) I am more: in labors more abundantly, in beatings beyond count, in prison more frequently, in ‘deaths’ often — ²⁴ five times from the Jews I received the ‘forty lashes minus one’; ²⁵ three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked (I spent twenty-four hours in the open sea)— ²⁶ in frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, in danger from robbers, in danger from my countrymen, in danger from Gentiles, in danger in cities, in danger in wildernesses, in danger in the sea, in danger among false brothers; ²⁷ in toil and hardship, in many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, in frequent fastings, in cold and nakedness — ²⁸ quite apart from the other things, my daily disturbances, my concern for all the congregations. ²⁹ Who is weak, and I do not feel it? Who is caused to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation ? ³⁰ Well, if I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.