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NASB					2 Cor 11:23 Are they ^Aservants¹²⁴⁹ of Christ⁵⁵⁴⁷?--I speak²⁹⁸⁰ as if insane³⁹¹²--I more⁵²²⁸ so⁵²²⁸; in ¹ ^Bfar⁴⁰⁵⁷ more⁴⁰⁵⁷ labors²⁸⁷³, in ¹ ^Cfar⁴⁰⁵⁷ more⁴⁰⁵⁷ imprisonments⁵⁴³⁸, ² ^Dbeaten⁴¹²⁷ times⁵²³⁴ without⁵²³⁴ number⁵²³⁴, often⁴¹⁷⁸ in ^Edanger²²⁸⁸ of death²²⁸⁸.
AMPLIFIED 2015					2 Cor 11:23 Are they [self-proclaimed] servants of Christ?--I am speaking as if I were out of my mind--I am more so [for I exceed them]; with far more labors, with far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, and often in danger of death.

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Lit more abundant

Lit exceedingly in stripes

NASB Cross References:
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1 Cor 3:5 ¶ What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave opportunity to each one.

1 Cor 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

2 Cor 6:5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hunger,

Acts 16:23 When they had struck them with many blows, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to guard them securely;

Rom 8:36 Just as it is written,
"FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG;
WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED."

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Greek Heb.

1249

diakonos; of unc. or.; a servant, minister:--deacons(3), minister(7), servant(10), servants(9).

2288

thanatos; from 2348; death:--danger of death(1), death(112), fatal(2), pestilence(3).

2873

kopos; from 2875; laborious toil:--bother*(3), bothers*(1), labor(7), labors(4), toil(2), trouble(1).

2980

laleô; from lalos (talkative); to talk:--made(1), proclaiming(1), said(6), say(5), saying(7), says(2), speak(95), speak forth(1), speaking(54), speaks(25), spoke(44), spoken(38), stating(1), talked(1), talking(5), tell(1), telling(1), things spoken(2), told(7), uttered(1), whispered*(1).

3912

paraphroneô; from 3844 and 5426; to be beside oneself, to be deranged:--insane(1).

4057

perissôs; adv. from 4053; abundantly:--all the more(3), even more(1), even...more(1), far more(3), furiously(1), more(2), much closer(1).

4127

plêgê; from 4141; a blow, wound:--beat*(1), beaten(1), beatings(1), blows(1), flogging(1), plague(3), plagues(10), wound(3), wounds(1).

4178

pollakis; adv. from 4183; often:--frequent(1), many(1), often(15), time after time(1).

5228

huper; a prim. prep.; over, beyond, fig. on behalf of, for the sake of, concerning:--about(5), above(4), behalf(22), beyond(4), concerning(3), exceed(1), more so(1), more than(5), over(2), regard(1), sake(9), sakes(1), than(3).

5234

huperballontôs; adv. from pres. act. part. of 5235; above measure:--times without number(1).

5438

phulakê; from 5442; a guarding, guard, watch:--guard(1), imprisonment(1), imprisonments(2), prison(34), prisons(3), time of the night(1), watch(4).

5547

Christos; from 5548; the Anointed One, Messiah, Christ:--Christ(516), Christ's(11), Messiah(4).

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