011:027 with labour and toil, with many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, in frequent fastings, in cold, and with insufficient clothing.
011:028 And besides other things, which I pass over, there is that
which presses on me daily—my anxiety for all the Churches.
011:029 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led astray into sin,
and I am not aflame with indignation?
011:030 If boast I must, it shall be of things which display my weakness.
011:031 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ—He who is blessed
throughout the Ages—knows that I am speaking the truth.
011:032 In Damascus the governor under King Aretas kept guards at
the gates of the city in order to apprehend me,
011:033 but through an opening in the wall I was let down in a basket,
and so escaped his hands.
012:001 I am compelled to boast. It is not a profitable employment, but I will proceed to visions and revelations granted me by the Lord.
012:002 I know a Christian man who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know; God knows—was caught up (this man of whom I am speaking) even to the highest Heaven.
012:003 And I know that this man—whether in the body or apart from
the body I do not know;