in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. and, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches. 2 corinthians 11:27-28 it’s easy to idolize lives...
but jews came from antioch and iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, they stoned paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead. but when the disciples gathered about him, he rose up and entered the city, and on the next day he went on with...
five times i received at the hands of the jews the forty lashes less one. three times i was beaten with rods. once i was stoned. three times i was shipwrecked; a night and a day i was adrift at sea; on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers,...
are they hebrews? so am I. are they israelites? so am I. are they offspring of Abraham? so am I. are they servants of Christ? i am a better one—i am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death. 2...
because of his great care for the corinthians, he continues to list his defense to how he is a true apostle speaking and living only the truth of the gospel. he would have been a descendant of abraham through the line of judean jews which should have highly qualified...
