2 Korintus 4:8-12

4:8 We are experiencing trouble on every side, ¹  but are not crushed; we are perplexed, ²  but not driven to despair; 4:9 we are persecuted, but not abandoned; ³  we are knocked down, ⁴  but not destroyed, 4:10 always carrying around in our body the death of Jesus, ⁵  so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible ⁶  in our body. 4:11 For we who are alive are constantly being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible ⁷  in our mortal body. ⁸  4:12 As a result, ⁹  death is at work in us, but life is at work in you. ¹⁰ 

2 Korintus 11:23-29

11:23 Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times. 11:24 Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes less one. ¹¹  11:25 Three times I was beaten with a rod. ¹²  Once I received a stoning. ¹³  Three times I suffered shipwreck. A night and a day I spent adrift in the open sea. 11:26 I have been on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, ¹⁴  in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, ¹⁵  in dangers at sea, in dangers from false brothers, 11:27 in hard work and toil, ¹⁶  through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, many times without food, in cold and without enough clothing. ¹⁷  11:28 Apart from other things, ¹⁸  there is the daily pressure on me of my anxious concern ¹⁹  for all the churches. 11:29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, ²⁰  and I do not burn with indignation?

[4:8]  ¹ tn Grk “we are hard pressed [by crowds] on every side.”

[4:8]  ² tn Or “at a loss.”

[4:9]  ³ tn Or “forsaken.”

[4:9]  ⁴ tn Or “badly hurt.” It is possible to interpret καταβαλλόμενοι (kataballomenoi) here as “badly hurt”: “[we are] badly hurt, but not destroyed” (L&N 20.21).

[4:10]  ⁵ tn The first clause of 2 Cor 4:10 is elliptical and apparently refers to the fact that Paul was constantly in danger of dying in the same way Jesus died (by violence at least). According to L&N 23.99 it could be translated, “at all times we live in the constant threat of being killed as Jesus was.”

[4:10]  ⁶ tn Or “may also be revealed.”

[4:11]  ⁷ tn Or “may also be revealed.”

[4:11]  ⁸ tn Grk “mortal flesh.”

[4:12]  ⁹ tn Or “So then.”

[4:12]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “death is at work in us, but life in you”; the phrase “is at work in” is repeated in the translation for clarity.

[11:24]  ¹¹ tn Grk “forty less one”; this was a standard sentence. “Lashes” is supplied to clarify for the modern reader what is meant.

[11:25]  ¹² sn Beaten with a rod refers to the Roman punishment of admonitio according to BDAG 902 s.v. ῥαβδίζω. Acts 16:22 describes one of these occasions in Philippi; in this case it was administered by the city magistrates, who had wide powers in a military colony.

[11:25]  ¹³ sn Received a stoning. See Acts 14:19, where this incident is described.

[11:26]  ¹⁴ tn Or “bandits.” The word normally refers more to highwaymen (“robbers”) but can also refer to insurrectionists or revolutionaries (“bandits”).

[11:26]  ¹⁵ tn Or “desert.”

[11:27]  ¹⁶ tn The two different words for labor are translated “in hard work and toil” by L&N 42.48.

[11:27]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “in cold and nakedness.” Paul does not mean complete nakedness, however, which would have been repugnant to a Jew; he refers instead to the lack of sufficient clothing, especially in cold weather. A related word is used to 1 Cor 4:11, also in combination with experiencing hunger and thirst.

[11:28]  ¹⁸ sn Apart from other things. Paul refers here either (1) to the external sufferings just mentioned, or (2) he refers to other things he has left unmentioned.

[11:28]  ¹⁹ tn “Anxious concern,” so translated in L&N 25.224.

[11:29]  ²⁰ tn Or “who is caused to stumble.”