Stripes

How Nave’s arranged it

• Inflicted on Paul2 Corinthians 6:52 Corinthians 11:23
• See Scourging

The passages, in Bible order (2)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 2 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. 2 Corinthians 6:5

   in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;

   ›Commentary on 2 Corinthians 6:52 voices

   “In stripes,.... As the Apostle Paul particularly was, who was thrice beaten with rods, and five times scourged by the Jews with the scourge of forty stripes save one.

   “In stripes - In this verse, Paul proceeds to specifications of what he had been called to endure. In the previous verse, he had spoken of his afflictions in general terms. In this expression, he refers to the fact that he and his fellow-laborers were scourged in the synagogues and cities as if they had been the worst of people. In 2Co 11:23-25, Paul says that he had been scourged five times by the Jews, and had been thrice beaten with rods. See the notes on that place. In imprisonments - As at Philippi; Act 16:24 ff.

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2. 2 Corinthians 11:23

   Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.

   ›Commentary on 2 Corinthians 11:232 voices

   “Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes, save one; thrice was I beaten with rods; once was I stoned," and the rest.

   “I speak as a fool--rather, as Greek, "I speak as if beside myself"; stronger than "as a fool." I am more--namely, in respect to the credentials and manifestations of my ministry, more faithful and self-denying; and richer in tokens of God's recognition of my ministry.

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