27. 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.
28. Besides everything else, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.
29. Who is weak, and I do not feel weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not inwardly burn?
30. If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.
31. The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is to be praised forever, knows that I am not lying.
32. In Damascus the governor under King Aretas had the city of the Damascenes guarded in order to arrest me.
33. But I was lowered in a basket from a window in the wall and slipped through his hands.