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## 2 Corinthians 11:23-26 in Context (Verses 20–29 KJV)
 
 [20 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/20) For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour *you*, if a man take *of you*, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
 
 [21 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/21) I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/22) Are they Hebrews? so *am* I. Are they Israelites? so *am* I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so *am* I.
 
 [23 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/23) Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I *am* more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
 
 [24 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/24) Of the Jews five times received I forty *stripes* save one.
 
 [25 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/25) Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
 
 [26 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/26) *In* journeyings often, *in* perils of waters, *in* perils of robbers, *in* perils by *mine own* countrymen, *in* perils by the heathen, *in* perils in the city, *in* perils in the wilderness, *in* perils in the sea, *in* perils among false brethren;
 
 [27 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/27) In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
 
 [28 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/28) Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
 
 [29 ](/kjv/2-corinthians/11/29) Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
 
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