2 Corinthians 11:27

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

World English Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

26I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

28Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.

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Cross References

Matthew 17:21But this kind doesn’t go out except by prayer and fasting.”

Acts 14:23When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord on whom they had believed.

Acts 20:31Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

Romans 8:35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

1 Corinthians 7:5Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

2 Corinthians 11:23Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 11:23-33

The Apostle Recounts His Sufferings. ( a. d. 57.) 22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. 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. 24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. 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… Read the whole commentary →

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