What physical hardships did Paul experience besides beatings?
Paul was stoned once, suffered shipwreck three times, and was dumped into the ocean, spending a night and a day in the deep. He endured perils from robbers, his own countrymen, heathen, wilderness, and sea, plus weariness, hunger, thirst, cold, nakedness, and fastings.
Les teaches that Paul endured scourging five times, which usually killed a man, and he did so without antibiotics or hospital care. Paul was beaten with rods three times, stoned once, shipwrecked three times, dumped in the ocean, and spent a night and a day in the deep. Les also notes perils from robbers, his own countrymen, the heathen, the wilderness, and the sea. Paul experienced weariness, hunger, thirst, cold, nakedness, and fastings. Les emphasizes that Paul was human—he got tired, hurt, and ached—yet he wrote these things so we can rest on them.
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
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What hardships did Paul say he endured in 2 Corinthians 11?
Paul himself went through times of nakedness, cold, and lack of relief from heat, and he was thirsty, as he described in 2 Corinthians 11.