Bible Verses About Paul

`because the letters indeed--saith one-- are weighty and strong, and the bodily presence weak, and the speech despicable.'

and even if unlearned in word--yet not in knowledge, but in every thing we were made manifest in all things to you.

Hebrews are they? I also! Israelites are they? I also! seed of Abraham are they? I also!

ministrants of Christ are they? --as beside myself I speak--I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;

from Jews five times forty stripes save one I did receive;

thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a night and a day in the deep I have passed;

journeyings many times, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from kindred, perils from nations, perils in city, perils in wilderness, perils in sea, perils among false brethren;

in labouriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;

In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king was watching the city of the Damascenes, wishing to seize me,

and through a window in a rope basket I was let down, through the wall, and fled out of his hands.

To boast, really, is not profitable for me, for I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

I have known a man in Christ, fourteen years ago--whether in the body I have not known, whether out of the body I have not known, God hath known--such an one being caught away unto the third heaven;

and I have known such a man--whether in the body, whether out of the body, I have not known, God hath known, --

that he was caught away to the paradise, and heard unutterable sayings, that it is not possible for man to speak.

and that by the exceeding greatness of the revelations I might not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of the Adversary, that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch.

Concerning this thing thrice the Lord did I call upon, that it might depart from me,

and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:

wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses--for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;

Paul, an apostle--not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who did raise him out of the dead--

for ye did hear of my behaviour once in Judaism, that exceedingly I was persecuting the assembly of God, and wasting it,

and I was advancing in Judaism above many equals in age in mine own race, being more abundantly zealous of my fathers' deliverances,

and when God was well pleased--having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called me through His grace--

to reveal His Son in me, that I might proclaim him good news among the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,

nor did I go up to Jerusalem unto those who were apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia, and again returned to Damascus,

then, after three years I went up to Jerusalem to enquire about Peter, and remained with him fifteen days,