Are they the ministers of Christ? (I speak foolishly) I am above [them]: in labours more abundantly, in stripes exceedingly more, in prisons more frequently, in the most immediate danger of death 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 toil: for night and day working hard, that we might be no burden to any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

neither did we eat bread with any man unpaid for, but with labour and toil worked night and day, that we might be burdensome to none of you:

In watchings

Therefore watch, remembering that for three years, by night and by day, I have never ceased with tears to admonish every individual.

In hunger

For even to this present hour we undergo hunger and thirst and nakedness, and are buffeted about, and have no settled abode;

I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound; in every state and in all situations I am instructed either to be full or famishing, either to enjoy abundance, or to suffer want:

Fastings

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

And as they were employed in the ministry, and kept a fast, the Holy Ghost said, Set apart for me now both Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.

Then appointing them presbyters in every city, by prayer with fastings they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

Defraud not one another, except it may be by consent occasionally, that ye may have more leisure for fasting and prayer; and come together again, lest Satan tempt you through your incontinence.

Nakedness

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

they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they experienced the severest trials, they were slain by the edge of the sword: they went about wrapped in skins of sheep and goats, destitute of all things, pressed down with afflictions, suffering all kind of misery;

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

General references

and why do we also expose ourselves to danger every hour?