2 Corinthians 11:23
23 Are they bservants of Christ? cI am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, dfar more imprisonments, ewith countless beatings, and foften near death.
2 Corinthians 12:11
Concern for the Corinthian Church
11 pI have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was qnot at all inferior to these super-apostles, reven though I am nothing.
Colossians 1:29
29 For this vI toil, wstruggling xwith all his energy that he powerfully works within me.