2 Corinthians 11:23-27

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Are they servants of Christ?
I’m talking like a madman—I’m a better one:
with far more labors,
many more imprisonments,
far worse beatings, near death^(a) many times.

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Five times I received 39 lashes from Jews.^(A)

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Three times I was beaten with rods by the Romans.^(B)
Once I was stoned by my enemies.^(b)^(C)
Three times I was shipwrecked.^(D)
I have spent a night and a day
in the open sea.

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On frequent journeys, I faced
dangers from rivers,
dangers from robbers,^(E)
dangers from my own people,^(F)
dangers from the Gentiles,
dangers in the city,
dangers in the open country,
dangers on the sea,
and dangers among false brothers;

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labor and hardship,
many sleepless nights, hunger and thirst,
often without food, cold, and lacking clothing.^(G)

Footnotes:

a. 2 Corinthians 11:23: Lit and in deaths

b. 2 Corinthians 11:25: A common Jewish method of capital punishment; Ac 14:5

Cross references:

A. 2 Corinthians 11:24: Deuteronomy 25:3

B. 2 Corinthians 11:25: Acts 16:22

C. 2 Corinthians 11:25: Acts 14:19

D. 2 Corinthians 11:25: Acts 27:1-44; 1 Timothy 1:19

E. 2 Corinthians 11:26: Mark 14:48

F. 2 Corinthians 11:26: Acts 9:23; Acts 13:50; Acts 14:5; Acts 17:5; Acts 18:12; Acts 20:3; Acts 20:19; Acts 21:27; Acts 23:10-12; Acts 25:3

G. 2 Corinthians 11:27: Romans 8:35