“in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.”
— WEB
2 Corinthians 11:27
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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.
“In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.”
— KJV
“[in] labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.”
— ASV
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Commentary
fastings--voluntary, in order to kindle devotions (Act 13:2-3; Act 14:23; Co1 9:27); for they are distinguished from "hunger and thirst," which were involuntary [GROTIUS]. However, see on Co2 6:5. The context refers solely to hardships, not to self-imposed devotional mortification. "Hunger and thirst" are not synonymous with "foodlessness" (as the Greek of "fasting" means), but are its consequences. cold . . . nakedness--"cold" resulting from "nakedness," or insufficient clothing, as the Greek often means: as "hunger and thirst" result from "foodlessness." (Compare Act 28:2; Rom 8:35). "When we remember that he who endured all this was a man constantly suffering from infirm health (Co2 4:7-12; Co2 12:7-10; Gal 4:13-14), such heroic self-devotion seems almost superhuman" [CONYBEARE and HOWSON].
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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