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- I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then receive me just as you would a fool, so that I may do a little boasting.
- In this self-confident boasting I am not talking as the Lord would, but as a fool.
- Since many are boasting in the way the world does, I too will boast.
- You gladly put up with fools since you are so wise!
- In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or pushes himself forward or slaps you in the face.
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- To my shame I admit that we were too weak for that! What anyone else dares to boast about--I am speaking as a fool--I also dare to boast about.
- Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they Abraham's descendants? So am I.
- Are they servants of Christ? (I am out of my mind to talk like this.) I am more. I have worked much harder, been in prison more frequently, been flogged more severely, and been exposed to death again and again.
- Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.
- 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,
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- I have been constantly on the move. I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my own countrymen, in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false brothers.
- I have labored and toiled and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked.
- Besides everything else, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.
- Who is weak, and I do not feel weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not inwardly burn?
- If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.
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- The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is to be praised forever, knows that I am not lying.
- In Damascus the governor under King Aretas had the city of the Damascenes guarded in order to arrest me.
- But I was lowered in a basket from a window in the wall and slipped through his hands.
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