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22 Are they Hebrews? I also. Are they Israelites? I also. Are they seed of Abraham? I also. 23 Are they servants of Christ? I speak as being beside myself—I too above measure: in labors more abundantly, in imprisonments more abundantly, in beatings surpassingly, in deaths often. 24 Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes minus one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I have passed a night and a day in the deep; 26 in journeyings often, in dangers of rivers, in dangers of robbers; in dangers from kindred, in dangers from the Gentiles; in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness; in dangers in the sea, in dangers among false brothers; 27 in labor and toil, in sleepless nights often; in hunger and thirst, in fastings often; in cold and nakedness. 28 Apart from the external things, the crowding on me on every day is the care of all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I am not burned? 30 If it is necessary to boast, I will boast in the things of my weakness. 31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, the One being blessed to the ages, knows that I am not lying. 32 In Damascus the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of the Damascenes to seize me. 33 But I was let down in a basket through a window through the wall, and I escaped his hands. 2 Corinthians 11:22-33, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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