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2 Corinthians 11:27

Suffering Exhaustion Work

²⁵ Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;

²⁶ In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

²⁸ Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

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.

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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.

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2 Corinthians 6:5
In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
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Philippians 4:12
I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
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1 Thessalonians 2:9
For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
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2 Thessalonians 3:8
Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
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1 Corinthians 4:11–12
Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
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2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
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Acts 14:23
And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.
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Romans 8:35–36
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
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