2 Corinthians 6:5 in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger;

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New International Version
in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger;

English Standard Version
beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger;

New American Standard Bible
in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hunger,

King James Bible
In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
by beatings, by imprisonments, by riots, by labors, by sleepless nights, by times of hunger,

International Standard Version
in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights, and hunger;

American Standard Version
in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

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

Darby Bible Translation
in stripes, in prisons, in riots, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

Young's Literal Translation
in stripes, in imprisonments, in insurrections, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

Cross References

Acts 16:23
And when they had laid many stripes on them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:

Acts 19:23
And the same time there arose no small stir about that way.

1 Corinthians 4:11
Even to this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place;

2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

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

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

6:1-10 The gospel is a word of grace sounding in our ears. The gospel day is a day of salvation, the means of grace the means of salvation, the offers of the gospel the offers of salvation, and the present time the proper time to accept these offers. The morrow is none of ours: we know not what will be on the morrow, nor where we shall be. We now enjoy a day of grace; then let all be careful not to neglect it. Ministers of the gospel should look upon themselves as God's servants, and act in every thing suitably to that character. The apostle did so, by much patience in afflictions, by acting from good principles, and by due temper and behaviour. Believers, in this world, need the grace of God, to arm them against temptations, so as to bear the good report of men without pride; and so as to bear their reproaches with patience. They have nothing in themselves, but possess all things in Christ. Of such differences is a Christian's life made up, and through such a variety of conditions and reports, is our way to heaven; and we should be careful in all things to approve ourselves to God. The gospel, when faithfully preached, and fully received, betters the condition even of the poorest. They save what before they riotously spent, and diligently employ their time to useful purposes. They save and gain by religion, and thus are made rich, both for the world to come and for this, when compared with their sinful, profligate state, before they received the gospel.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

5. stripes—(2Co 11:23, 24; Ac 16:23).

imprisonments—(2Co 11:23). He had been, doubtless, elsewhere imprisoned besides at Philippi when he wrote this Epistle.

tumults—(Ac 13:50; 14:5, 19; 16:22; and recently Ac 19:23-41).

labours—in the cause of Christ (2Co 11:23; Ro 16:12).

watchings—(2Co 11:27). Sleepless nights.

fastings—The context here refers to his trials, rather than devotional exercises (compare 2Co 11:27). Thus "foodlessness" would seem to be the sense (compare 1Co 4:11; Php 4:12). But the usual sense of the Greek is fasts, in the strict sense; and in 2Co 11:27 it is spoken of independently of "hunger and thirst." (Compare Lu 2:37; Ac 10:30; 14:23). However, Mt 15:32; Mr 8:3, justify the sense, more favored by the context, foodlessness, though a rare use of the word. Gaussen remarks "The apostles combine the highest offices with the humblest exterior: as everything in the Church was to be cast in the mould of death and resurrection, the cardinal principle throughout Christianity."