I know how to make do with little, and I know how to make do with a lot. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being content #– #whether well fed or hungry, whether in abundance or in need.
For you remember our labour and hardship, brothers and sisters. Working night and day so that we would not burden any of you, we preached God’s gospel to you.
They were stoned, , they were sawn in two, they died by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, and mistreated.
Are they servants of Christ? I’m talking like a madman #– #I’m a better one: with far more labours, many more imprisonments, far worse beatings, many times near death.
Do not deprive one another #– #except when you agree for a time, to devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again; otherwise, Satan may tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
‘My lord the king, these men have been evil in all they have done to the prophet Jeremiah. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will die from hunger, because there is no more bread in the city.’