“is to be free” Married 30 years and being separated Paul's Sufferings as an Apostle 2Co 11:16 I repeat, let no one think me foolish. But even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little. 2Co 11:17 What I am saying with this boastful confidence, I say not as the Lord would but as a fool. 2Co 11:18 Since many boast according to the flesh, I too will boast. 2Co 11:19 For you gladly bear with fools, being wise yourselves! 2Co 11:20 For you bear it if someone makes slaves of you, or devours you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or strikes you in the face. 2Co 11:21 To my shame, I must say, we were too weak for that! But whatever anyone else dares to boast of—I am speaking as a fool—I also dare to boast of that. 2Co 11:22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they offspring of Abraham? So am I. 2Co 11:23 Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death. 2Co 11:24 Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. 2Co 11:25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea; 2Co 11:26 on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers; 2Co 11:27 in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. 2Co 11:28 And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches. 2Co 11:29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant? 2Co 11:30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. 2Co 11:31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying. 2Co 11:32 At Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus in order to seize me, 2Co 11:33 but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his hands. |
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