Bible verse
Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.
2 Corinthians 11:24 · BSB
The verses around it, from 2 Corinthians 11.
20 In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or exalts himself or strikes you in the face.
21 To my shame I concede that we were too weak for that! Speaking as a fool, however, I can match what anyone else dares to boast about.
22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.
23 Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.
24 Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.
25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.
26 In my frequent journeys, I have been in danger from rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the Gentiles, in danger in the city and in the country, in danger on the sea and among false brothers,
27 in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.
28 Apart from these external trials, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.
KJV
Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one.
ASV
Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
ERV
Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
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