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2 Corinthians 6:5

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

KJV

ἐν πληγαῖς, ἐν φυλακαῖς, ἐν ἀκαταστασίαις, ἐν κόποις, ἐν ἀγρυπνίαις, ἐν νηστείαις,

Greek NT

in plagis, in carceribus, in seditionibus, in laboribus, in vigiliis, in jejuniis,

Vulgate

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

ASV

In stripes, in prisons, in seditions, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

7 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

κόπος
kopos
noun · 18×
νηστεία
nesteia
noun · 5×
πληγή
plege
noun · 22×
φυλακή
phulake
noun · 46×
ἀγρυπνία
agrupnia
noun · 2×
ἀκαταστασία
akatastasia
noun · 5×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×

Historic Christian voices

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

Cross-references

  • 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 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.
  • 2Cor 11:27 — In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
  • 2Cor 11:27 — In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
  • Acts 16:19 — And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,
  • Acts 16:22 — And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.
  • Acts 17:5 — But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, an
  • Acts 19:23 — And the same time there arose no small stir about that way.
  • Col 1:29 — Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
  • 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.