14. And no wonder! For Satan himself masquerades as a messenger of light!
15. It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works!
16. Again I say, let no one think me to be a fool. And if otherwise, at least receive me as a fool, for me to also boast a little.
17. What I speak, I speak not according to the Master, but as in foolishness, in this boldness of boasting.
18. Since many boast according to the flesh, I too shall boast.
19. For you, being wise, put up with fools gladly!
20. For you put up with it if anyone enslaves you, if anyone devours you, if anyone takes from you, if anyone exalts himself, if one hits you in the face.
21. To my shame, I say that we were too weak for that! But in whatever anyone is bold – I say it in foolishness – I am bold also.
22. Are they Heḇrews? So am I. Are they Yisra’ĕlites? So am I. Are they the seed of Aḇraham? So am I.
23. Are they servants of Messiah? – I speak as beside myself – I am more, in labours much more, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times.
24. Five times I received from the Yehuḏim forty stripes less one.
25. Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have been in the deep,
26. in many travels, in dangers of waters, in dangers of robbers, in dangers from my own race, in dangers from the gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the desert, in dangers in the sea, in dangers among false brothers;
27. in toil and hardship, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness,
28. besides the matters from outside, what comes upon me daily: the anxiety for all the assemblies.
29. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn inwardly?
30. If I have to boast, I shall boast of matters that show up my weakness.
31. The Elohim and Father of our Master יהושע Messiah, who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.
32. In Damascus the governor, under Aretas the sovereign, was guarding the city of the Damascenes, wishing to seize me,