(Stop drinking just water, but use a little wine for your digestion ¹  and your frequent illnesses.) ² 

Faithful ¹  are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses ²  of an enemy are excessive. ³ 

I have been on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, ¹  in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, ²  in dangers at sea, in dangers from false brothers,

Now the boy Samuel continued serving the Lord under Eli’s supervision. ¹  Word from the Lord was rare in those days; revelatory visions were infrequent.

I am not condemning ¹  you because of your sacrifices, or because of your burnt sacrifices that you continually offer me. ² 

Those who carried the ark of the Lord took six steps and then David ¹  sacrificed an ox and a fatling calf.

yet because this widow keeps on bothering me, I will give her justice, or in the end she will wear me out ¹  by her unending pleas.’” ² 

those who use the world as though they were not using it to the full. For the present shape of this world is passing away.

in hard work and toil, ¹  through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, many times without food, in cold and without enough clothing. ² 

For the ground that has soaked up the rain that frequently falls on ¹  it and yields useful vegetation for those who tend it receives a blessing from God.

Indeed, as long as I am in this tabernacle, ¹  I consider it right to stir you up by way of a reminder,

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.