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In stripesf, in imprisonments, ζin tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

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2 Cor. 11:23• ²³Are they ministers of Christ? (Beside myself I speak) I above measure; in labours very abundantly, in prisons very abundantly, in stripes exceedingly, in deaths often. (2 Cor. 11:23)

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or, in tossings to and fro.

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stripes.

2 Cor. 11:23‑25• ²³Are they ministers of Christ? (Beside myself I speak) I above measure; in labours very abundantly, in prisons very abundantly, in stripes exceedingly, in deaths often.
²⁴From Jews five times I received forty [stripes] save one;
²⁵thrice was I beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; (2 Cor. 11:23‑25)

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Deut. 25:3• (Deut. 25:3)

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Isa. 53:5• (Isa. 53:5)

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Acts 16:23• ²³And having laid many stripes on them, they cast [them] into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely; (Acts 16:23)

imprisonments.

1 Kings 22:27• (1 Kings 22:27)

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2 Chron. 16:10• (2 Chron. 16:10)

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Jer. 33:1• (Jer. 33:1)

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Jer. 37:15‑16• (Jer. 37:15‑16)

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Jer. 38:6• (Jer. 38:6)

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Matt. 14:3,10• ³{i}For Herod had seized John, and had bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother.{/i}
¹⁰{i}And he sent and beheaded John in the prison;{/i} (Matt. 14:3,10)

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Acts 5:18• ¹⁸and laid their hands on the apostles and put them in public ward. (Acts 5:18)

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Acts 12:4‑5• ⁴whom, having taken, he also put in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep, purposing after the Passover to bring him forth unto the people.
⁵Peter, then, was kept in the prison; but prayer was earnestly made by the assembly unto God concerning him. (Acts 12:4‑5)

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Acts 16:24• ²⁴who having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and secured their feet into the stocks. (Acts 16:24)

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Acts 22:24• ²⁴the commander ordered him to be brought into the castle, directing that he should be examined by scourging, that he might know for what cause they had shouted thus against him. (Acts 22:24)

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Acts 23:35• ³⁵I will hear thee fully, said he, when thine accusers also are arrived. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's Praetorium. (Acts 23:35)

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Acts 24:27• ²⁷But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus; and Felix, willing to gain favour with the Jews, left Paul in bonds. (Acts 24:27)

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Acts 26:10,29• ¹⁰which things I also did in Jerusalem; and I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received the authority from the chief priests, and I railed against [them] when they were put to death;
²⁹And Paul [said], I would to God that both with little and with great [pains] b not thou only but also all that hear me this day should become, as I too am, except these bonds. (Acts 26:10,29)

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Acts 28:16‑17,30• ¹⁶And when he came to Rome [the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the prætorian guard, but] Paul was allowed to remain with the soldier who guarded him.
¹⁷And it came to pass that after three days he called together those that were chief of the Jews: and when they were come together he said unto them, Brethren, I though having done nothing against the people or the customs of our fathers, was delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans;
³⁰And he remained two whole years in his own hired lodging, and received all that came unto him, (Acts 28:16‑17,30)

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Eph. 3:1• ¹For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of the Christ Jesus for you nations, (Eph. 3:1)

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Phil. 1:13• ¹³so that my bonds have been manifest in Christ in the whole of the Praetorium and to all the rest; (Phil. 1:13)

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2 Tim. 1:8• ⁸Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but suffer hardship with the gospel, according to the power of God, (2 Tim. 1:8)

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2 Tim. 2:9• ⁹in which I suffer unto bonds as an evil-doer; but the word of God is not bound. (2 Tim. 2:9)

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Heb. 11:36• ³⁶and others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yea and of bonds and imprisonment. (Heb. 11:36)

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Heb. 13:23• ²³Know that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom if he come soon I will see you. (Heb. 13:23)

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Rev. 2:10• ¹⁰Fear not the things which thou art about to suffer: behold, the devil is about to cast of you into prison that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life. (Rev. 2:10)

in tumults.

or, in tossings to and fro.

2 Cor. 1:8‑10• ⁸For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, as to our tribulation that came to pass d in Asia, that we were excessively pressed beyond power, so as for us to despair even of our living.
⁹But we ourselves have had in ourselves the sentence of death, that we should not have our trust in ourselves, but in God that raiseth the dead,
¹⁰who delivered us from so great a death, and doth e deliver, in whom we have hope that he will also yet deliver, (2 Cor. 1:8‑10)

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Acts 14:19• ¹⁹But there arrived Jews from Antioch and Iconium and having persuaded the crowds and stoned Paul, they dragged [him] without the city, supposing that he was dead. (Acts 14:19)

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Acts 17:5• ⁵But the Jews, having been stirred up to jealousy, took unto them certain wicked men of the rabble, and gathering a crowd, set the city in confusion, and besetting the house of Jason, sought to bring them out to the people. (Acts 17:5)

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Acts 18:12‑17• ¹²But when Gallio was pro-consul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul, and brought him before the judgment seat,
¹³saying, This [man] persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.
¹⁴But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If indeed it were some wrong, or wicked villainy, O Jews, with reason should I have borne with you;
¹⁵but if they are questions about a word and names and your own law, ye shall look yourselves; I do not intend to be judge of these things.
¹⁶And he drove them from the judgment-seat.
¹⁷And having all laid hold on Sosthenes the ruler of the synagogue, they beat [him] before the judgment-seat. And Gallio cared for none of these things. (Acts 18:12‑17)

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Acts 19:23‑34• ²³And about that time arose no small disturbance about the way.
²⁴For a certain [man] by name Demetrius, a silver-beater, making silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the artisans,
²⁵whom he gathered together with the workmen of like nature, and said, Men, ye are aware that we have our prosperity from this business.
²⁶And ye behold and hear that this Paul hath persuaded and turned away a considerable crowd, not only of Ephesus, but of almost all Asia, saying that they are no gods that are made by hands.
²⁷Now, not only is there danger for us that this trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis be counted for nothing, and that even she should be deposed from her magnificence, whom all Asia and the world revereth.
²⁸And when they heard they were filled with wrath and kept crying out, saying, Great is Artemis of the Ephesians.
²⁹And the city was filled with confusion; and they rushed with one accord into the theatre,
³⁰having seized together Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, Paul's fellow-travelers.
³¹And when Paul was minded to enter unto the people, the disciples suffered him not. And some of the Asiarchs also, being his friends, sent unto him and urged him not to adventure himself into the theatre.
³²Different ones therefore kept crying somewhat different things; for the assembly was in confusion, and the mass knew not wherefore they were come together.
³³And from the crowd they instructed Alexander, the Jews putting him forward; and Alexander waving his hand wished to make defence to the people.
³⁴But when they came to know he was a Jew, one shout arose from all, crying for about two hours, Great [is] Artemis of [the] Ephesians. (Acts 19:23‑34)

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Acts 21:27‑35• ²⁷And when the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia when they saw him in the temple stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,
²⁸crying out, Men of Israel, help. This is the man that teacheth all everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place; and moreover he brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath defiled this holy place.
²⁹For they had before seen with him in the city Trophimus the Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul brought into the temple.
³⁰And the whole city was moved, and the people ran together, and they laid hold on Paul and dragged him out of the temple; and forthwith the doors were shut.
³¹And as they were seeking to kill him, tidings came up to the chief officer of the cohort, that the whole of Jerusalem was in confusion,
³²and immediately he took soldiers and centurions, and ran down upon them; and they, when they saw the chief officer and the soldiers, ceased beating Paul.
³³Then the chief officer came near and laid hold on him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains, and enquired who he might be, and what he had done.
³⁴And some shouted one thing, and some another, among the crowd. And when he could not know the certainty because of the uproar, he commanded him to be brought into the castle
³⁵And when he came upon the steps, so it was that he was borne upon the soldiers, because of the violence of the crowd. (Acts 21:27‑35)

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Acts 22:23• ²³And as they cried out and threw off their garments and cast dust into the air, (Acts 22:23)

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Acts 23:10• ¹⁰And when there arose a great dissension, the commander, fearing lest Paul should be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them and bring [him] into the castle. (Acts 23:10)

labours.

2 Cor. 11:23• ²³Are they ministers of Christ? (Beside myself I speak) I above measure; in labours very abundantly, in prisons very abundantly, in stripes exceedingly, in deaths often. (2 Cor. 11:23)

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1 Cor. 15:10• ¹⁰but by God's grace I am what I am, and his grace that [was] towards me became not empty, but I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet not I but the grace of God that [was] with me. (1 Cor. 15:10)

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1 Thess. 2:9• ⁹For ye remember, brethren, our labour and our toil; working night and day that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God. (1 Thess. 2:9)

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1 Tim. 4:10• ¹⁰for unto this end we labour and suffer reproach, because we have our hope set on a living God who is Saviour of all men, especially of faithful [men]. (1 Tim. 4:10)

watchings.

2 Cor. 11:27• ²⁷in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. (2 Cor. 11:27)

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Ezek. 3:17• (Ezek. 3:17)

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Mark 13:34‑37• ³⁴[it is] as a man gone out of the country who left his house and gave authority to his bondmen, {i}and{/i} to each his work, {i}and commanded the doorkeeper that he should watch.{/i}
³⁵Watch, therefore; for ye know not when the master of the house cometh: even, or midnight, or cock-crowing, or in morning;
³⁶lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
³⁷But what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch. (Mark 13:34‑37)

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Acts 20:31• ³¹Wherefore watch, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not admonishing each one night and day with tears. (Acts 20:31)

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2 Tim. 4:5• ⁵But be thou sober in all things, suffer hardship [evils], do an evangelist's work, fully perform thy ministry. (2 Tim. 4:5)

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Heb. 13:17• ¹⁷Obey your leaders, and be submissive, for they watch over your souls, as those that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not groaning, for this [were] unprofitable for you. (Heb. 13:17)

fastings.

Matt. 9:15• ¹⁵{i}And Jesus said to them, Can the sons of the bridechamber mourn so long as the bridegroom is with them? But days will come when the bridegroom will have been taken away from them, and then they will fast.{/i} (Matt. 9:15)

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Acts 13:3• ³Then when they had fasted and prayed and laid down their hands on them, they let them go. (Acts 13:3)

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Acts 14:23• ²³And when they chose for them elders in each assembly and prayed with fastings, they commended them to the Lord on whom they had believed. (Acts 14:23)

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1 Cor. 7:5• ⁵Defraud not one another, unless by consent for a time, that ye may have leisure for prayer and again be together, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency. (1 Cor. 7:5)

• 2 Cor. 11:23 speaks of the Apostle's being "in prisons more frequent," so that we know such shame to have been abundantly his lot…."in tumults"-- a "riot" in the world or "confusion" among saints; and here the context confirms the former: a shocking trial to one of well-ordered habits....we pass on from inflicted to voluntary trials....the apostle's " labors, watchings, fastings," had to do with the gospel and the church, as well as individual souls, and were quite above the circumstances of trade good or bad. (“Notes on 2 Corinthians 6:4-7” by W. Kelly)

• They commended themselves by the patience with which they met the special trials that came upon them as the servants of the Lord — stripes, imprisonments, and tumults. (“2 Corinthians 6” by H. Smith)

• They further commended themselves by the patience with which they met all the exercises in connection with the Lord's work and the Lord's people — labors, watchings, and fastings. (“2 Corinthians 6” by H. Smith)

• As to “prisons,” we know of but one, recorded minutely in Acts 16, doubtless for its momentous connection with the first planting of the gospel in Philippi; but 2 Cor. 11:23 speaks of the Apostle's being “in prisons more frequent,” so that we know such shame to have been abundantly his lot. (“Notes on 2 Corinthians 6:4-7” by W. Kelly)

• The Apostle's “labors, watchings, fastings,” had to do with the gospel and the church, as well as individual souls. (“Notes on 2 Corinthians 6:4-7” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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in stripes, in prisons, in riots, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

W. Kelly Translation

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in stripes, in prisons, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,