2 Corinthians 11:24-25

11:24 Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes less one. ¹  11:25 Three times I was beaten with a rod. ²  Once I received a stoning. ³  Three times I suffered shipwreck. A night and a day I spent adrift in the open sea.

2 Corinthians 6:4-5

6:4 But as God’s servants, ⁴  we have commended ourselves in every way, ⁵  with great endurance, in persecutions, ⁶  in difficulties, in distresses, 6:5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, ⁷  in troubles, ⁸  in sleepless nights, in hunger,

Acts 9:16

9:16 For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.” ⁹ 

¹ tn Grk “forty less one”; this was a standard sentence. “Lashes” is supplied to clarify for the modern reader what is meant.

² 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.

³ sn Received a stoning. See Acts 14:19, where this incident is described.

⁴ tn Or “ministers.”

⁵ tn Or “we have commended ourselves by all things.”

⁶ tn Or “in trouble and suffering.”

⁷ tn Or “rebellions” (uprisings in open defiance of civil authority).

⁸ tn Usually κόποις (kopois) has been translated as “labors” or “hard work,” but see Matt 26:10 where it means “trouble”; “distress” (L&N 22.7). In this context with so many other terms denoting suffering and difficulty, such a meaning is preferable.

⁹ tn Or “because of my name.” BDAG 1031 s.v. ὑπέρ 2 lists Acts 9:16 as an example of ὑπέρ (Juper) used to indicate “the moving cause or reason, because of, for the sake of, for.”