2 Corinthians 6:5
3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on 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 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.
Read in context2 Corinthians 11:27
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Read in contextHebrews 11:36
And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
Read in contextActs 19:23–34
And the same time there arose no small stir about that way.
Read in contextActs 17:5
But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
Read in contextActs 18:12–17
And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat,
Read in contextJeremiah 37:15–16
Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
Read in context2 Timothy 2:9
Where in I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
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