2 Corinthians 11:27
Good News Translation
There has been work and toil; often I have gone without sleep; I have been hungry and thirsty; I have often been without enough food, shelter, or clothing.

New Revised Standard Version
in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, hungry and thirsty, often without food, cold and naked.

Contemporary English Version
I have worked and struggled and spent many sleepless nights. I have gone hungry and thirsty and often had nothing to eat. I have been cold from not having enough clothes to keep me warm.

New American Bible
in toil and hardship, through many sleepless nights, through hunger and thirst, through frequent fastings, through cold and exposure.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness:

weariness.

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 6:5 In stripes, in prisons, in seditions, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

Acts 20:5-11,34,35 These, going before, stayed for us at Troas. . . .

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.

2 Thessalonians 3:8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing: but in labour and in toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you.

in watchings.

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.

in hunger.

Jeremiah 38:9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done against Jeremiah the prophet, casting him into the dungeon to die there with hunger, for there is no more bread in the city.

1 Corinthians 4:11,12 Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffeted and have no fixed abode. . . .

Philippians 4:12 I know both how to be brought low, and I know how to abound (every where and in all things I am instructed): both to be full and to be hungry: both to abound and to suffer need.

fastings.

2 Corinthians 6:5 In stripes, in prisons, in seditions, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

Acts 13:2,3 And as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Ghost said to them: Separate me Saul and Barnabas, for the work whereunto I have taken them. . . .

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.

nakedness.

Romans 8:35,36 Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? Or distress? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or danger? Or persecution? Or the sword? . . .

Hebrews 11:37 They were stoned, they were cut asunder, they were tempted, they were put to death by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being in want, distressed, afflicted:

James 2:15,16 And if a brother or sister be naked and want daily food: . . .

Context
Paul's Suffering and Service
26In journeying often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own nation, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils from false brethren: 27In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness: 28Besides those things which are without: my daily instance, the solicitude for all the churches.…
Cross References
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 6:5
In stripes, in prisons, in seditions, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

Philippians 4:12
I know both how to be brought low, and I know how to abound (every where and in all things I am instructed): both to be full and to be hungry: both to abound and to suffer need.

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.

2 Thessalonians 3:8
Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing: but in labour and in toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you.

2 Corinthians 11:26
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