Are they ministers of Christ? So am I. I am talking like a man that has gone crazy -- as such I am superior! -- serving Him with labors greater by far, with far more imprisonments, with floggings vastly worse, and often at the point of death.

in floggings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, and hunger;

They went on to Troas and waited there for us,

You remember, brothers, our hard labor and toil. We kept up our habit of working night and day, in order not to be a burden to any of you when we preached to you.

I did not eat any man's bread without paying for it, but with toil and hard labor I worked night and day, in order not to be a burden to any of you.

In watchings

So ever be on your guard and always remember that for three years, night and day, I never ceased warning you one by one, and that with tears.

In hunger

To this very hour we have gone hungry, thirsty, poorly clad; we have been roughly knocked around; we have had no home.

I know how to live in lowly circumstances and I know how to live in plenty. I have learned the secret, in all circumstances, of either getting a full meal or of going hungry, of living in plenty or being in want.

Fastings

in floggings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, and hunger;

While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul, for the work to which I have called them."

They helped them select elders in each church, and after praying and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

You husbands and wives must stop refusing each other what is due, unless you agree to do so just for awhile, so as to have plenty of time for prayer, and then to be together again, so as to keep Satan from tempting you because of your lack of self-control.

Nakedness

Who can separate us from Christ's love? Can suffering or misfortune or persecution or hunger or destitution or danger or the sword?

They were stoned to death, they were tortured to death, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. With nothing on their bodies but skins of sheep or goats they wandered here and there, destitute, oppressed, mistreated --

If some brother or sister is thinly clad and has no food for the day,

General references

Why too do we ourselves run such risks every hour?