2 Corinthians

²³Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times. ²⁴Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes less one. ²⁵Three times I was beaten with a rod. Once I received a stoning. Three times I suffered shipwreck. A night and a day I spent adrift in the open sea. ²⁶I have been on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers from false brothers, ²⁷in hard work and toil, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, many times without food, in cold and without enough clothing. ²⁸Apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxious concern for all the churches. ²⁹Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with indignation?