Study Desk

By way of disparagement, am I speaking, - as though, we, had been weak! whereas, in whatsoever anyone dareth, in foolishness I speak, I also, dare: -

Hebrews, are they? I also, Israelites, are they? I also, seed of Abraham, are they? I also,

Ministers of Christ, are they? As one deranged I am talking, I, above measure! - in toils, superabundantly, in prisons, superabundantly, in stripes, to excess, in deaths, oft, -

From Jews, five times, forty-save-one, have I received,

Thrice, have I been beaten with rods, once, have I been stoned, thrice, have I been shipwrecked, a day and night, in the deep, have I spent;

In journeyings oft, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils by the sea, in perils among false brethren,

in toil and hardship, in watchings, oft, in hunger and thirst, in fasting, oft, in cold and nakedness: -

Apart from the things without, my daily care, - my anxiety for all the assemblies; -

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and, I, am not burning?