2Cor 11:22-33 | ESV | STEP | Are they Hebrews ? So am I . Are they Israelites ? So am I . Are they offspring of Abraham ? So am I .

2 Corinthians 11:22-33

22 Are they Hebrews? ^aSo am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they offspring of Abraham? So am I. 23 Are they ^bservants of Christ? ^cI am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, ^dfar more imprisonments, ^ewith countless beatings, and ^foften near death. 24 Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the ^gforty lashes less one. 25 Three times I was ^hbeaten with rods. ⁱOnce I was stoned. Three times I ^jwas shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea; 26 on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, ^kdanger from my own people, ^ldanger from Gentiles, ^mdanger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers; 27 ⁿin toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, ^oin hunger and thirst, often without food, ^{▼▼Or often in fasting} in cold and exposure. 28 And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for ^qall the churches. 29 ^rWho is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?

30 ^sIf I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. 31 ^tThe God and Father of the Lord Jesus, ^uhe who is blessed forever, ^vknows that I am not lying. 32 At Damascus, the governor under King Aretas ^wwas guarding the city of Damascus in order to seize me, 33 ^xbut I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his hands.