2 Corinthians 6:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

But approving ourselves as the ministers of God — Such as his ministers ought to be. In much patience — Shown, In afflictions, necessities, distresses — All which are general terms. In stripes, imprisonments, tumults — Which are particular sorts of affliction, necessity, distress In labours, watchings, fastings — Voluntarily endured. All these are expressed in the plural number, to denote a variety of them. In afflictions, several ways to escape may appear, though none without difficulty in necessities, one only, and that a difficult one; in distresses, none at all appears.