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 often.

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

These going before tarried for us at Troas.

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for labouring night and day, not to be a burden unto any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.

neither did we eat any man's bread for nought, but working with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you,

In watchings

Therefore watch and remember that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

In hunger

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.

Even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are ill clad and are buffeted and have no certain dwellingplace

I know both how to be humbled, and I know how to have an abundance; in everything and by all things I am instructed, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

Fastings

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work unto which I have called them.

And having ordained elders for them in every congregation and having prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord on whom they believed.

Do not defraud one another, except it be with mutual consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer and come together again, that Satan not tempt you for your incontinency.

Nakedness

Who shall separate us from the charity of Christ? shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword?

they were stoned; they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword; they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; poor, afflicted, mistreated,

If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food,

General references

And why do we stand in jeopardy every hour?