Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as being beside myself) I above measure so; in labours exceedingly abundant, in stripes to excess, in prisons exceedingly abundant, in deaths oft.

in stripes, in prisons, in riots, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

These going before waited for us in Troas;

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, not to be chargeable to any one of you, we have preached to you the glad tidings of God.

nor have we eaten bread from any one without cost; but in toil and hardship working night and day not to be chargeable to any one of you:

In watchings

Wherefore watch, remembering that for three years, night and day, I ceased not admonishing each one of you with tears.

In hunger

My lord, O king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to the prophet Jeremiah, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he will die by reason of the famine in the place where he is; for there is no more bread in the city.

To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are in nakedness, and buffeted, and wander without a home,

I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound. In everything and in all things I am initiated both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer privation.

Fastings

in stripes, in prisons, in riots, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

And as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me now Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.

And having chosen them elders in each assembly, having prayed with fastings, they committed them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

Defraud not one another, unless, it may be, by consent for a time, that ye may devote yourselves to prayer, and again be together, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

Nakedness

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? tribulation or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

They were stoned, were sawn asunder, were tempted, died by the death of the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, evil treated,

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

General references

Why do we also endanger ourselves every hour?