The list of Paul's sufferings is overwhelming:
- far greater labors
- far more imprisonments
- countless beatings
- often near death
- 5 times forty lashes less one
- 3 times beaten with rods
- stoned once
- shipwrecked 3 times--a night and a day I was adrift at sea
- frequent journeys
- in danger from rivers
- danger from robbers
- danger from his own people
- danger from Gentiles
- danger in the city
- danger in the wilderness
- danger at sea
- danger from false brothers
- in toil and hardship
- sleepless nights
- hungry and thirsty
- often without food
- in cold and exposure
- and daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches. (2 Corinthians 11:16-29)
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