2 Corinthians 11:27
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.”
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“in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.”
King James Version · Public Domain“in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“in labouriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 2 Corinthians 11:27 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Jeremiah 38:9“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there is no more bread in the city.”
- Acts 13:2While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
- Acts 14:23Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church, praying and fasting as they entrusted them to the Lord, in whom they had believed.
- Acts 20:5These men went on ahead and waited for us in Troas.
- Acts 20:31Therefore be alert and remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.
- Acts 20:34You yourselves know that these hands of mine have ministered to my own needs and those of my companions.
- Romans 8:35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
- 1 Corinthians 4:11To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.
- 1 Corinthians 7:5Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control.
- 2 Corinthians 6:5in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;
- 2 Corinthians 11:23Are 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.
- Philippians 4:12I know how to live humbly, and I know how to abound. I am accustomed to any and every situation—to being filled and being hungry, to having plenty and having need.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:9Surely you recall, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to anyone while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:8nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead, in labor and toil, we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you.
- Hebrews 11:37They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.
- James 2:15Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food.
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