2 Corinthians 11:27

Suffering Exhaustion Work

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,

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.

²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with grief?

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.
KJV: In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
WEB: in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
ASV: [in] labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
DARBY: in labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
BLB: in labor and toil, in sleepless [nights] often; in hunger and thirst, in fastings often; in cold and nakedness.

ÅB: i strev og strev, ofte i nattevåk, i hunger og tørst, ofte i faste, i kulde og nakenhet.
OTB: Jeg har vært i arbeid og slit, gjennom mange søvnløse netter, i sult og tørst, ofte uten mat, i kulde og eksponering.
B1930: i strev og møie, ofte i nattevåk, i hunger og tørst, ofte i faste, i kulde og nakenhet.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

2 Corinthians 6:5
in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;
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Philippians 4:12
I know how to live humbly, and I know how to abound. I am accustomed to any and every situation—to being filled and being hungry, to having plenty and having need.
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1 Thessalonians 2:9
Surely you recall, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to anyone while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
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2 Thessalonians 3:8
nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead, in labor and toil, we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you.
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1 Corinthians 4:11–12
To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.
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2 Corinthians 11:23
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.
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Acts 14:23
Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church, praying and fasting as they entrusted them to the Lord, in whom they had believed.
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Romans 8:35–36
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
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