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22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants (seed) of Abraham (father of many)? So am I. 23 Are they servants {diakonoi} of Christ (the Anointed One)? (I am speaking as if I were out of my mind.) I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death. 24 Five times I received from the Jews (people of praise) the forty lashes minus one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea. 26 In my frequent journeys, I have been in danger from rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the Gentiles {ethnōn}, in danger in the city and in the country, in danger on the sea and among false brothers, 27 in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure. 28 Apart from these external trials, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches {ekklēsiōn}. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with grief? 30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. 31 The God {Theos} and Father {Patēr} of the Lord {Kyriou} Jesus (YHWH saves), who is forever \to the ages/ worthy of praise (forever blessed), knows that I am not lying. 32 In Damascus (well-watered land), the governor under King Aretas secured the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me. 33 But I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his grasp. 2 Corinthians 11:22-33, Berean Annotated Bible. Public domain.
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