1 Would to God ye could bear with me a little
       in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
        2 For I am jealous over you with godly
       jealousy: for I have espoused you to one
       husband, that I may present you as a chaste
       virgin to Christ.
        3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent
       beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds
       should be corrupted from the simplicity that is
       in Christ.
        4 For if he that cometh preacheth another
       Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye
       receive another spirit, which ye have not
       received, or another gospel, which ye have not
       accepted, ye might well bear with him.
        5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the
       very chiefest apostles.
        6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in
       knowledge; but we have been throughly made
       manifest among you in all things.
        7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself
       that ye might be exalted, because I have
       preached to you the gospel of God freely?
        8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of
       them, to do you service.
        9 And when I was present with you, and wanted,
       I was chargeable to no man: for that which was
       lacking to me the brethren which came from
       Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have
       kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and
       so will I keep myself.
       10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall
       stop me of this boasting in the regions of
       Achaia.
       11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God
       knoweth.
       12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut
       off occasion from them which desire occasion;
       that wherein they glory, they may be found even
       as we.
       13 For such are false apostles, deceitful
       workers, transforming themselves into the
       apostles of Christ.
       14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is
       transformed into an angel of light.
       15 Therefore it is no great thing if his
       ministers also be transformed as the ministers
       of righteousness; whose end shall be according
       to their works.
       16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if
       otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may
       boast myself a little.
       17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the
       Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this
       confidence of boasting.
       18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I
       will glory also.
       19 For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye
       yourselves are wise.
       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 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we
       had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any 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 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 Of the Jews five times received I forty
       stripes save one.
       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 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 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings
       often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often,
       in cold and nakedness.
       28 Beside those things that are without, that
       which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the
       churches.
       29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is
       offended, and I burn not?
       30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the
       things which concern mine infirmities.
       31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
       which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I
       lie not.
       32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the
       king kept the city of the Damascenes with a
       garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
       33 And through a window in a basket was I let
       down by the wall, and escaped his hands.

...to 2nd Corinthians chapter 12