2 Corinthians 11:23-25

Paul's Sufferings as an Apostle

²³ Are they _b servants of Christ? _c I am a better one - I am talking like a madman - with far greater labors, _d far more imprisonments, _e with countless beatings, and _f often near death. ²⁴ Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the _g forty lashes less one. ²⁵ Three times I was _h beaten with rods. _i Once I was stoned. Three times I _j was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea;

1. Cross References
   2 Corinthians 3:6
   Who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
   2 Corinthians 10:7
   Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident that he is Christ's, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ's, so also are we.
   
2. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 15:10
   But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.
   
3. Cross References
   2 Corinthians 6:5
   Beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger.
   
4. Cross References
   Acts 16:23
   And when they had inflicted many blows upon them, they threw them into prison, ordering the jailer to keep them safely.
   
5. Cross References
   2 Corinthians 1:9 - 10
   Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.
   2 Corinthians 4:11
   For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
   2 Corinthians 6:9
   As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and yet not killed.
   Romans 8:36
   As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.
   1 Corinthians 15:30 - 32
   Why are we in danger every hour?
   
6. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 25:3
   Forty stripes may be given him, but not more, lest, if one should go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother be degraded in your sight.
   
7. Cross References
   Acts 16:22
   The crowd joined in attacking them, and the magistrates tore the garments off them and gave orders to beat them with rods.
   
8. Cross References
   Acts 14:19
   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.
   
9. Cross References
   Acts 27:41
   But striking a reef, they ran the vessel aground. The bow stuck and remained immovable, and the stern was being broken up by the surf.