27. with hardships and difficulties, with much vigilance, in hunger and thirst, with frequent fasts, in cold and nakedness,
28. and, in addition to these things, which are external: there is my daily earnestness and solicitude for all the churches.
29. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is scandalized, and I am not being burned?
30. If it is necessary to glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weaknesses.
31. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.
32. At Damascus, the governor of the nation under Aretas the king, watched over the city of the Damascenes, so as to apprehend me.