2 Corinthians 6:5
Good News Translation
We have been beaten, jailed, and mobbed; we have been overworked and have gone without sleep or food.

New Revised Standard Version
beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger;

Contemporary English Version
We have been beaten, put in jail, and hurt in riots. We have worked hard and have gone without sleep or food.

New American Bible
beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, vigils, fasts;

Douay-Rheims Bible
In stripes, in prisons, in seditions, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In stripes, in prisons, in seditions, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

stripes.

2 Corinthians 11:23-25 They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often. . . .

Deuteronomy 25:3 Yet so, that they exceed not the number of forty: lest thy brother depart shamefully torn before thy eyes.

Isaiah 53:5 But he was wounded for our iniquities, he was bruised for our sins: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his bruises we are healed.

Acts 16:23 And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the gaoler to keep them diligently.

imprisonments.

1 Kings 22:27 And tell them: Thus saith the king: Put this man in prison, and feed him with bread of affliction, and water of distress till I return in peace.

2 Chronicles 16:10 And Asa was angry with the seer, and commanded him to be put in prison: for he was greatly enraged because of this thing: and he put to death many of the people at that time.

Jeremiah 33:1 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying:

Jeremiah 37:15,16 So Jeremiah went into the house of the prison, and into the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained there many days. . . .

Jeremiah 38:6 Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Melchias the son of Amelech, which was in the entry of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah by ropes into the dungeon, wherein there was no water, but mire. And Jeremiah sunk into the mire.

Matthew 14:3,10 For Herod had apprehended John and bound him, and put him into prison, because of Herodias, his brother's wife. . . .

Acts 5:18 And they laid hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison.

Acts 12:4,5 And when he had apprehended him, he cast him into prison, delivering him to four files of soldiers, to be kept, intending, after the pasch, to bring him forth to the people. . . .

Acts 16:24 Who having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks.

Acts 22:24 The tribune commanded him to be brought into the castle, and that he should be scourged and tortured: to know for what cause they did so cry out against him.

Acts 23:35 I will hear thee, said he, when thy accusers come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's judgment hall.

Acts 24:27 But when two years were ended, Felix had for successor Portius Festus. And Felix being willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.

Acts 26:10,29 Which also I did at Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority of the chief priests. And when they were put to death, I brought the sentence. . . .

Acts 28:16,17,30 And when we were come to Rome, Paul was suffered to dwell by himself, with a soldier that kept him. . . .

Ephesians 3:1 For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ, for you Gentiles:

Philippians 1:13 So that my bands are made manifest in Christ, in all the court and in all other places.

2 Timothy 1:8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but labour with the gospel, according to the power of God.

2 Timothy 2:9 Wherein I labour even unto bands, as an evildoer. But the word of God is not bound.

Hebrews 11:36 And others had trial of mockeries and stripes: moreover also of bands and prisons.

Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty: with whom (if he come shortly) I will see you.

Revelation 2:10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer. Behold, the devil will cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried: and you shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death: and I will give thee the crown of life.

in tumults.

2 Corinthians 1:8-10 For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation which came to us in Asia: that we were pressed out of measure above our strength, so that we were weary even of life. . . .

Acts 14:19 Now there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium: and, persuading the multitude and stoning Paul, drew him out of the city, thinking him to be dead.

Acts 17:5 But the Jews, moved with envy and taking unto them some wicked men of the vulgar sort and making a tumult, set the city in an uproar: and besetting Jason's house, sought to bring them out unto the people.

Acts 18:12-17 But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him to the judgment seat, . . .

Acts 19:23-34 Now at that time there arose no small disturbance about the way of the Lord. . . .

Acts 21:27-35 But when the seven days were drawing to an end, those Jews that were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people and laid hands upon him, crying out: . . .

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

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

labours.

2 Corinthians 11:23 They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me hath not been void: but I have laboured more abundantly than all they. Yet not I, but the grace of God with me:

1 Thessalonians 2:9 For you remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.

1 Timothy 4:10 For therefore we labour and are reviled, because we hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

watchings.

2 Corinthians 11:27 In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness:

Ezekiel 3:17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the house of Israel: and thou shalt hear the word out of my mouth, and shalt tell it them from me.

Mark 13:34-37 Even as a man who, going into a far country, left his house and gave authority to his servants over every work and commanded the porter to watch. . . .

Acts 20:31 Therefore watch, keeping in memory that for three years I ceased not with tears to admonish every one of you, night and day.

2 Timothy 4:5 But be thou vigilant, labour in all things, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry. Be sober.

Hebrews 13:17 Obey your prelates and be subject to them. For they watch as being to render an account of your souls: that they may do this with joy and not with grief. For this is not expedient for you.

fastings.

Matthew 9:15 And Jesus said to them: Can the children of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast.

Acts 13:3 Then they fasting and praying and imposing their hands upon them, sent them away.

Acts 14:23 And when they had ordained to them priests in every church and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, in whom they believed.

1 Corinthians 7:5 Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent, for a time, that you may give yourselves to prayer: and return together again, lest Satan tempt you for your incontinency.

Context
Paul's Hardships and God's Grace
4But in all things let us exhibit ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in tribulation, in necessities, in distresses, 5In stripes, in prisons, in seditions, in labours, in watchings, in fastings, 6In chastity, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in sweetness, in the Holy Ghost, in charity unfeigned,…
Cross References
Acts 16:23
And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the gaoler to keep them diligently.

Acts 19:23
Now at that time there arose no small disturbance about the way of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 4:11
Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffeted and have no fixed abode.

2 Corinthians 11:23
They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

2 Corinthians 11:27
In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness:

2 Corinthians 6:4
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