2 Corinthians 11:27
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
2 Corinthians 11:27 in other translations
| BSB | in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure. |
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| WEB | in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness. |
| ASV | in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. |
| YLT | in labouriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness; |
| DARBY | in labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. |
| BBE | In hard work and weariness, in frequent watchings, going without food and drink, cold and in need of clothing. |
| Webster | In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. |
What does 2 Corinthians 11:27 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Barnes' Notes
And painfulness. This word (μοχθω) is a stronger term than the former. It implies painful effort; labour producing sorrow; and, in the New Testament, is uniformly connected with the word rendered "weariness," (1Thes 2:9; 2Thes 3:8,) rendered in both those places "travail."
In watchings often. In loss of sleep, arising from abundant toils and from danger. 2Cor 6:5.
In hunger and thirst. From travelling among strangers, and being dependent on them and on his own personal labours. 1Cor 4:11.
In fastings often. Either voluntary or involuntary. 2Cor 6:5.
In cold and nakedness. 1Cor 4:11.
(b) "watchings often" Acts 20:31 (c) "hunger and thirst" 1Cor 4:11
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Corinthians 11:22-33
The apostle gives an account of his labours and sufferings; not out of pride or vain-glory, but to the honour of God, who enabled him to do and suffer so much for the cause of Christ; and shows wherein he excelled the false apostles, who tried to lessen his character and usefulness. It astonishes us to reflect on this account of his dangers, hardships, and sufferings, and to observe his patience, perseverance…
2 Corinthians 11:27 in the original Greek
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Cross references for 2 Corinthians 11:27
- 2 Corinthians 6:5
In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
- Philippians 4:12
I know both how to be abased, 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 ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:8
Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
- 1 Corinthians 4:11-12
Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace; And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
- 2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
- Acts 14:23
And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.
- Romans 8:35-36
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
- Hebrews 11:37
They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
- 1 Corinthians 7:5
Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
- Jeremiah 38:9
My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.
- Acts 20:34-35
Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me. I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
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Context
- 2 Corinthians 11:26
In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
- 2 Corinthians 11:27
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
- 2 Corinthians 11:28
Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
2 Corinthians 11:27 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | En trabajo y fatiga, en muchas vigilias, en hambre y sed, en muchos ayunos, en frío y en desnudez; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | en peine et en labeur, en veilles souvent, dans la faim et la soif, dans les jeûnes souvent, dans le froid et la nudité: |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | in Arbeit und Mühe, in Wachen oft, in Hunger und Durst, in Fasten oft, in Kälte und Blöße; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | in labore et ærumna, in vigiliis multis, in fame et siti, in jejuniis multis, in frigore et nuditate, |