47:011:016 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
47:011:017 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
47:011:018 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
47:011:019 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
47:011:020 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
47:011:021 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
47:011:022 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
47:011:023 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
47:011:024 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
47:011:025 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;