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2 Corinthians 11:27

In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

KJV

κόπῳ καὶ μόχθῳ, ἐν ἀγρυπνίαις πολλάκις, ἐν λιμῷ καὶ δίψει, ἐν νηστείαις πολλάκις, ἐν ψύχει καὶ γυμνότητι·

Greek NT

in labore et ærumna, in vigiliis multis, in fame et siti, in jejuniis multis, in frigore et nuditate,

Vulgate

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

ASV

In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness:

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γυμνότης
gumnotes
noun · 3×
δίψος
dipsos
noun · 1×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κόπος
kopos
noun · 18×
λιμός
limos
noun · 12×
μόχθος
mochthos
noun · 3×
νηστεία
nesteia
noun · 5×
πολλάκις
pollakis
adverb · 18×
ψύχος
psuchos
noun · 3×
ἀγρυπνία
agrupnia
noun · 2×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: κόπῳ | WH/Treg/NIV: κόπῳ | RP: ἐν κόπῳ
  • κόπῳSBLGNT
  • κόπῳWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἐν κόπῳRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

2. That one of you should have his father's wife. Wherefore said he not, That he should abuse his father's wife? The extreme foulness of the deed caused him to shrink. He hurries by it accordingly, with a sort of scrupulousness as though it had been explicitly mentioned before. And hereby again he aggravates the charge, implying that such things are ventured on among them as ev…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 4:11 — Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
  • 1Cor 7:5 — Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
  • 1Cor 9:27 — But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
  • 1Thess 2:9 — For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
  • 2Cor 6:4 — But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
  • 2Cor 6:5 — In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
  • 2Cor 6:5 — In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
  • 2Cor 11:23 — 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 oft.
  • 2Thess 3:8 — Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
  • 2Tim 4:13 — The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments.
  • Acts 13:2 — As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
  • Acts 14:23 — And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.
  • Acts 20:34 — Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
  • Acts 28:2 — And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
  • Heb 11:37 — They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
  • Jas 2:15 — If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
  • Jer 38:9 — 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 ther
  • Mark 9:29 — And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.
  • Matt 6:16 — Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
  • Matt 9:15 — And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they
  • Matt 11:8 — But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses.
  • Phil 4:11 — Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
  • Phil 4:12 — I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
  • Phil 4:12 — I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
  • Ps 109:24 — My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
  • Rom 8:35 — Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?