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Bishop's Bible

2 Corinthians 11:27

In labour & trauayle, in watchinges often, in hunger and thirst, in fastinges often, in colde and nakednesse,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Fasting;   Minister, Christian;   Paul;   Persecution;   Zeal, Religious;   Thompson Chain Reference - Hunger;   Paul;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fasting;   Watchfulness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Fasting;   Naked;   Paul;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Boasting;   Ephesus;   Evangelist;   Paul;   Work;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Corinthians, First and Second, Theology of;   Persecution;   Perseverance;   Suffering;   Thessalonians, First and Second, Theology of;   Wealth;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Paul;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Life;   Persecution in the Bible;   Thorn in the Flesh;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Corinthians, Second Epistle to;   Fasting;   Painfulness;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Abstinence;   Evil;   Hunger;   Marks Stigmata;   Nakedness ;   Self-Denial;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Paul;   45 Pain Travail Labour Weariness;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Obsolete or obscure words in the english av bible;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Saul of Tarsus;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Mark;   Painfulness;  

Devotionals:

- Chip Shots from the Ruff of Life - Devotion for April 7;   Every Day Light - Devotion for April 7;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
toil and hardship, many sleepless nights, hunger and thirst, often without food, cold, and without clothing.
King James Version (1611)
In wearinesse and painfulnesse, in watchings often, in hunger & thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakednes.
King James Version
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
English Standard Version
in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.
New American Standard Bible
I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.
New Century Version
I have done hard and tiring work, and many times I did not sleep. I have been hungry and thirsty, and many times I have been without food. I have been cold and without clothes.
Amplified Bible
in labor and hardship, often unable to sleep, in hunger and thirst, often [driven to] fasting [for lack of food], in cold and exposure [without adequate clothing].
New American Standard Bible (1995)
I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.
Legacy Standard Bible
I have been in labor and hardship, in many sleepless nights, in starvation and thirst, often hungry, in cold and without enough clothing.
Berean Standard Bible
in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.
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.
Complete Jewish Bible
I have toiled and endured hardship, often not had enough sleep, been hungry and thirsty, frequently gone without food, been cold and naked.
Darby Translation
in labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Easy-to-Read Version
I have done hard and tiring work, and many times I did not sleep. I have been hungry and thirsty. Many times I have been without food. I have been cold and without clothes.
Geneva Bible (1587)
In wearinesse and painefulnesse, in watching often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in colde and in nakednesse.
George Lamsa Translation
In toil and weariness, in sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, through much fasting, in cold and nakedness.
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.
Lexham English Bible
with toil and hardship, often in sleepless nights, with hunger and thirst, often going hungry, in cold and poorly clothed.
Literal Translation
in hardship and toil, often in watchings, in hunger and thirst, often in fastings, in cold and nakedness,
American Standard Version
in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Bible in Basic English
In hard work and weariness, in frequent watchings, going without food and drink, cold and in need of clothing.
Hebrew Names Version
in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
International Standard Version
in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, through many periods of fasting, through coldness and nakedness.Acts 20:31; 1 Corinthians 4:11; 2 Corinthians 6:5;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
in labour and weariness, in much watching, in hunger and thirst, in much fasting, in cold and in nakedness;
Murdock Translation
In toil and weariness, in much watching, in hunger and thirst, in much fasting, in cold and nakedness:
English Revised Version
[in] labour and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
World English Bible
in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
In labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Weymouth's New Testament
with labour and toil, with many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, in frequent fastings, in cold, and with insufficient clothing.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
in many wakyngis, in hungur, in thirst, in many fastyngis, in coold and nakidnesse.
Update Bible Version
[in] labor and travail, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fasts often, in cold and nakedness.
Webster's Bible Translation
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
New English Translation
in hard work and toil, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, many times without food, in cold and without enough clothing.
New King James Version
in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness--
New Living Translation
I have worked hard and long, enduring many sleepless nights. I have been hungry and thirsty and have often gone without food. I have shivered in the cold, without enough clothing to keep me warm.
New Life Bible
I have worked hard and have been tired and have had pain. I have gone many times without sleep. I have been hungry and thirsty. I have gone without food and clothes. I have been out in the cold.
New Revised Standard
in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, hungry and thirsty, often without food, cold and naked.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
in toil and hardship, in watchings, oft, in hunger and thirst, in fasting, oft, in cold and nakedness: -
Douay-Rheims Bible
In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness:
Revised Standard Version
in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
in laboure and travayle in watchynge often in honger in thirst in fastynges often in colde and in nakednes.
Young's Literal Translation
in laboriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
in laboure & trauayle, in moch watchinges, in honger and thyrst, in moch fastinges in colde and nakednesse:
Mace New Testament (1729)
expos'd to toil, to fatigue, to frequent watchings, to hunger and thirst, to frequent fastings, to cold and penury.
Simplified Cowboy Version
I have ridden the rough string and the rough trails. Most of the time I got little sleep. Many times I had no food or water. I've been in bad cold weather without a coat.

Contextual Overview

22 They are Ebrues, euen so am I. They are Israelites, euen so am I. They are the seede of Abraham, euen so am I. 23 They are the ministers of Christe, (I speake as a foole) I am more: in labours more aboundant, in stripes aboue measure, in pryson more plenteouslie, in death oft. 24 Of the Iewes fyue tymes receaued I fourtie [stripes] saue one. 25 Thryse was I beaten with roddes, once stoned, thrise I suffred shipwracke, nyght and day haue I ben in ye depth: 26 In iourneying often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of myne owne nation, in perils among the heathen, in perils in the citie, in perils in the wildernesse, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren, 27 In labour & trauayle, in watchinges often, in hunger and thirst, in fastinges often, in colde and nakednesse, 28 Besides the thynges which outwardlye come vnto me: my dayly encombraunce [is] the care of all the Churches. 29 Who is weake, and I am not weake? who is offended, and I burne not? 30 If I must needes glory, I wyll glory of the thynges that concerne myne infirmities. 31 The God and father of our Lorde Iesus Christe, which is blessed for euermore, knoweth that I lye not.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

weariness: 2 Corinthians 11:23, 2 Corinthians 6:5, Acts 20:5-11, Acts 20:34, Acts 20:35, 1 Thessalonians 2:9, 2 Thessalonians 3:8

in watchings: Acts 20:31

in hunger: Jeremiah 38:9, 1 Corinthians 4:11, 1 Corinthians 4:12, Philippians 4:12

fastings: 2 Corinthians 6:5, Acts 13:2, Acts 13:3, Acts 14:23, 1 Corinthians 7:5

nakedness: Romans 8:35, Romans 8:36, Hebrews 11:37, James 2:15, James 2:16

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 17:42 - disdained 1 Kings 13:14 - sitting 1 Kings 17:10 - Fetch me Psalms 109:24 - knees Matthew 6:16 - when Matthew 9:15 - and then Matthew 11:8 - A man Matthew 17:21 - but Mark 2:20 - and Mark 9:29 - fasting Luke 5:35 - and Luke 6:21 - ye that hunger Luke 16:21 - desiring Acts 28:2 - because 1 Corinthians 9:27 - I keep 2 Corinthians 6:4 - necessities Philippians 4:11 - in respect 2 Timothy 4:13 - cloak

Cross-References

Genesis 11:1
And all the whole earth was of one language and lyke speache.
Genesis 11:11
And Sem liued after he begat Arphaxad fiue hundreth yeres, and begat sonnes and daughters.
Genesis 11:29
Abram & Nachor toke them wiues: the name of Abrams wife [was] Sarai, and the name of Nachors wyfe, [was] Milcha, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcha, & the father of Iischa.
Genesis 11:31
And Tarah toke Abram his sonne, and Lot the sonne of Haran his sonnes sonne, and Sarai his daughter in lawe his sonne Abrams wyfe, and they departed together from Ur of the Chaldees, that they myght go into the land of Chanaan: and they came vnto Haran, and dwelt there.
Genesis 12:4
And so Abram departed, euen as the Lorde had spoken vnto hym, and Lot went with him: and Abram was seuentie and fiue yeres old when he departed out of Haran.
Genesis 14:12
And they caryed awaye Lot also Abrams brothers sonne, & his goodes, (for he dwelled in Sodome) and departed.
2 Peter 2:7
And iust Lot, vexed with ye vncleane conuersatio of the wicked, deliuered he.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In weariness and painfulness,.... Through long journeys and frequent preaching; or "in labour and trouble"; or in troublesome labour, for all labour is not so; as hunting, hawking, c. though laborious, yet delightful but the labours of the apostle were painful and troublesome to the flesh, though he had much inward spiritual delight and pleasure in them:

in watchings often; being sometimes engaged at midnight, either in preaching, or praying, or staging psalms, and sometimes obliged to work early and late with his own hands to supply his necessities:

in hunger and thirst; as when at sea, or in wilderness places, or where no notice was taken of him for preaching the Gospel; he doing that freely without asking the assistance of any, which in some places would have been prejudicial to his designs, and the spread of the Gospel:

in fastings often; voluntary ones, which he engaged in, not as meritorious works, but to keep under his body, and as proper to attend the work of prayer at certain times:

in cold and nakedness; when travelling in the winter season, and but poorly clothed to keep him from the inclemencies of the weather; and having no certain dwelling place to retire unto and abide in, during any severe season there might be, and wanting the comforts of life to support him under such inconveniences.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In weariness - Resulting from traveling, exposure, labor, and want. The word κόπος kopos (from κόπτω koptō, “to beat, to cut”) means, properly, “wailing and grief,” accompanied with beating the breast. Hence, the word means “toil, labor, wearisome effort.”

And painfulness - This word (μόχθος mochthos) is a stronger term than the former. It implies painful effort; labor producing sorrow, and in the New Testament is uniformly connected with the word rendered “weariness” (1 Thess, 2 Corinthians 2:9; 2 Thessalonians 3:8), rendered in both those places “travail.”

In watchings often - In loss of sleep, arising from abundant toils and from danger; see the note on 2 Corinthians 6:5.

In hunger and thirst - From traveling among strangers, and being dependent on them and on his own personal labors; see the note, 1 Corinthians 4:11.

In fastings often - Either voluntary or involuntary; see the note on 2 Corinthians 6:5.

In cold and nakedness - see the note, 1 Corinthians 4:11.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 27. In weariness and painfulness — Tribulations of this kind were his constant companions. Lord Lyttleton and others have made useful reflections on this verse: "How hard was it for a man of a genteel and liberal education, as St. Paul was, to bear such rigours, and to wander about like a vagabond, hungry and almost naked, yet coming into the presence of persons of high life, and speaking in large and various assemblies on matters of the utmost importance!" Had not St. Paul been deeply convinced of the truth and absolute certainty of the Christian religion, he could not have continued to expose himself to such hardships.


 
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