yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little. 011:017 That which I speak, I don't speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting. 011:018 Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast. 011:019 For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise. 011:020 For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face. 011:021 I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet however any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also. 011:022 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I. 011:023 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often. 011:024 Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one. 011:025 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep. 011:026 I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers; 011:027 in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness. 011:028 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies. 011:029 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don't burn with indignation? 011:030 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness. 011:031 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forevermore, knows that I don't lie. 011:032 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes desiring to arrest me. 011:033 Through a window I was let down in a basket by the wall, and escaped his hands. 012:001 It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. 012:002 I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don't know, or whether out of the body, I don't know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven. 012:003 I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I don't know; God knows), 012:004 how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. 012:005 On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses. 012:006 For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no