22. Are they Ivrim? So am I. Are they Yisre'elim? So am I. Are they Zera Avraham? So am I. [Pp 3:5]
23. Are they mesharetei HaMoshiach? --I am talking like someone who is meshuggah.-- [1C 15:10] I can outdo them: in labors more abundantly, in imprisonments more frequently, in beatings more by far, and often near death.
24. By Yehudim chamash p'amim I had the arba'im lashes minus one! [DEVARIM 25:3]
25. Shloshah p'amim I was beaten with rods, [Ac 16:10] pa'am achat I was stoned [Ac 14:19], shloshah p'amim I was shipwrecked, spending a lailah and a yom in the open sea;
26. In journeys often, in sakanot mavet (mortal danger) from rivers, in sakanot mavet from robbers, in sakanot mavet from my own people [Ac 9:23], in sakanot mavet from Goyim [Ac 14:5], in sakanot mavet in the shtetl, in sakanot mavet in the country, in sakanot mavet in the sea, in sakanot mavet among achei sheker (false brothers);
27. In labor and toil, in watchings, often in famine and thirst, in tzomot often, in cold and nakedness; [2C 6:5];
28. Beside the things from without, there is the pressure on me yom yom, the care of all of Moshiach's Kehillot.
29. Who is weak and I am not weak? [1C 9:22] Who is caused to fall into chet (sin), and I do not burn?
30. If it is necessary for me to boast, then I will boast of my weaknesses. [2C 12:5]
31. Hashem, Elohim HaAv of HaMoshiach Yehoshua knows (Hamevorach l'olmei olamim!) that I am not speaking sheker. [2C 1:23]
32. In Damascus the Ethnarch under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus to arrest me,
33. And I was let down through the wall through a window in a basket, and escaped his hands. [Ac 9:24-25]