2 Corinthians 6:5

³ We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no one can discredit our ministry.

⁴ Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;

in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;

⁶ in purity, knowledge, patience, and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love;

⁷ in truthful speech and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;

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 beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;
KJV: In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
WEB: in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings,
ASV: in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
DARBY: in stripes, in prisons, in riots, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,
BLB: in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleepless nights, in fastings;

ÅB: under slag, i fengsler, i opprør, i strengt arbeid, i nattevåk, i faste;
OTB: I slag, i fengslinger, i opprør, i arbeid, i søvnløshet, i sult,
B1930: under slag, i fengsler, i oprør, i strengt arbeid, i nattevåk, i faste;

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

2 Corinthians 11:23–25
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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2 Corinthians 11:27
in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.
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Hebrews 11:36
Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
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Acts 19:23–34
About that time there arose a great disturbance about the Way.
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Acts 17:5
The Jews, however, became jealous. So they brought in some troublemakers from the marketplace, formed a mob, and sent the city into an uproar. They raided Jason’s house in search of Paul and Silas, hoping to bring them out to the people.
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Acts 18:12–17
While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews coordinated an attack on Paul and brought him before the judgment seat.
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Jeremiah 37:15–16
The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison.
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2 Timothy 2:9
for which I suffer to the extent of being chained like a criminal. But the word of God cannot be chained!
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