17. What I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
18. Seeing that many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast.
19. For you tolerate fools gladly, seeing you yourselves are wise.
20. For you permit it if a man brings you into bondage, if a man devours you, if a man takes from you, if a man exalts himself, or if a man strikes you on the face.
21. I say to my reproach that we were too weak for that.But whenever anyone is bold (I speak foolishly), I am bold also.
22. Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.
23. Are they servants of Christ? I speak as a fool. I am more: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often.
24. Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes minus one.