2 Corintios 11:27

27 He trabajado con esfuerzo y por largas horas y soporté muchas noches sin dormir. He tenido hambre y sed, y a menudo me he quedado sin nada que comer. He temblado de frío, sin tener ropa suficiente para mantenerme abrigado.

2 Corintios 11:27 Meaning and Commentary

2 Corinthians 11:27

In weariness and painfulness
Through long journeys and frequent preaching; or "in labour and trouble"; or in troublesome labour, for all labour is not so; as hunting, hawking, &c. though laborious, yet delightful; but the labours of the apostle were painful and troublesome to the flesh, though he had much inward spiritual delight and pleasure in them:

in watchings often;
being sometimes engaged at midnight, either in preaching, or praying, or staging psalms, and sometimes obliged to work early and late with his own hands to supply his necessities:

in hunger and thirst;
as when at sea, or in wilderness places, or where no notice was taken of him for preaching the Gospel; he doing that freely without asking the assistance of any, which in some places would have been prejudicial to his designs, and the spread of the Gospel:

in fastings often;
voluntary ones, which he engaged in, not as meritorious works, but to keep under his body, and as proper to attend the work of prayer at certain times:

in cold and nakedness;
when travelling in the winter season, and but poorly clothed to keep him from the inclemencies of the weather; and having no certain dwelling place to retire unto and abide in, during any severe season there might be, and wanting the comforts of life to support him under such inconveniences.

2 Corintios 11:27 In-Context

25 Tres veces me azotaron con varas. Una vez fui apedreado. Tres veces sufrí naufragios. Una vez pasé toda una noche y el día siguiente a la deriva en el mar.

26 He estado en muchos viajes muy largos. Enfrenté peligros de ríos y de ladrones. Enfrenté peligros de parte de mi propio pueblo, los judíos, y también de los gentiles.
Enfrenté peligros en ciudades, en desiertos y en mares. Y enfrenté peligros de hombres que afirman ser creyentes, pero no lo son.

27 He trabajado con esfuerzo y por largas horas y soporté muchas noches sin dormir. He tenido hambre y sed, y a menudo me he quedado sin nada que comer. He temblado de frío, sin tener ropa suficiente para mantenerme abrigado.

28 Además de todo eso, a diario llevo la carga de mi preocupación por todas las iglesias.

29 ¿Quién está débil sin que yo no sienta esa misma debilidad? ¿Quién se ha dejado llevar por mal camino sin que yo arda de enojo?