^27 (A)in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, ^(B)in hunger and thirst, often without food,^[a] in cold and exposure.

^5 (A)beatings, imprisonments, ^(B)riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger;

⁸ nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but ^(A)with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you.

⁹ For you remember, brothers, ^(A)our labor and toil: we ^(B)worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

¹² I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and ^(A)hunger, abundance and ^(B)need.

¹¹ To the present hour ^(A)we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and ^(B)buffeted and ^(C)homeless, ¹² and we ^(D)labor, working with our own hands. ^(E)When reviled, we bless; ^(F)when persecuted, we endure;

^15 (A)If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, ^16 (B)and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good^[a] is that?

^37 (A)They were stoned, they were sawn in two,^{[a] (B)}they were killed with the sword. ^(C)They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated—

²³ Are they ^(A)servants of Christ? ^(B)I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, ^(C)far more imprisonments, ^(D)with countless beatings, and ^(E)often near death.