Bible: 2 Cor. 11:24-32; 12:7-10
11:24 Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes less one. 1 11:25 Three times I was beaten with a rod. 2 Once I received a stoning. 3 Three times I suffered shipwreck. A night and a day I spent adrift in the open sea. 11:26 I have been on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, 4 in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, 5 in dangers at sea, in dangers from false brothers, 11:27 in hard work and toil, 6 through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, many times without food, in cold and without enough clothing. 7 11:28 Apart from other things, 8 there is the daily pressure on me of my anxious concern 9 for all the churches. 11:29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, 10 and I do not burn with indignation? 11:30 If I must boast, 11 I will boast about the things that show my weakness. 12 11:31 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed forever, knows I am not lying. 11:32 In Damascus, the governor 13 under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus 14 in order to arrest 15 me,
12:7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants 1 I will give this land.” So Abram 2 built an altar there to the Lord , who had appeared to him.
12:8 Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel 3 and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the
The Promised Blessing Jeopardized
12:10 There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt 7 to stay for a while 8 because the famine was severe. 9
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