In stripes, in imprisonments, in {c} tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;

(c) In tossing to and fro, finding no place of rest and quietness.

People's New Testament

6:5 In stripes. See 2Co 11:23,24.

In imprisonments. He was imprisoned at Philippi (Ac 16:24), Jerusalem (Ac 22:24), Caesarea (Ac 24:23), and Rome (Ac 28:16), at least.

In tumults. See Ac 14:19 16:22 19:29 21:30.

Wesley's Notes

6:5 In tumults - The Greek word implies such attacks as a man cannot stand against, but which bear him hither and thither by violence.

King James Translators' Notes

in tumults: or, in tossings to and fro

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. stripes-(2Co 11:23, 24; Ac 16:23).

imprisonments-(2Co 11:23). He had been, doubtless, elsewhere imprisoned besides at Philippi when he wrote this Epistle.

tumults-(Ac 13:50; 14:5, 19; 16:22; and recently Ac 19:23-41).

labours-in the cause of Christ (2Co 11:23; Ro 16:12).

watchings-(2Co 11:27). Sleepless nights.

fastings-The context here refers to his trials, rather than devotional exercises (compare 2Co 11:27). Thus "foodlessness" would seem to be the sense (compare 1Co 4:11; Php 4:12). But the usual sense of the Greek is fasts, in the strict sense; and in 2Co 11:27 it is spoken of independently of "hunger and thirst." (Compare Lu 2:37; Ac 10:30; 14:23). However, Mt 15:32; Mr 8:3, justify the sense, more favored by the context, foodlessness, though a rare use of the word. Gaussen remarks "The apostles combine the highest offices with the humblest exterior: as everything in the Church was to be cast in the mould of death and resurrection, the cardinal principle throughout Christianity."

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

6:1-10 The gospel is a word of grace sounding in our ears. The gospel day is a day of salvation, the means of grace the means of salvation, the offers of the gospel the offers of salvation, and the present time the proper time to accept these offers. The morrow is none of ours: we know not what will be on the morrow, nor where we shall be. We now enjoy a day of grace; then let all be careful not to neglect it. Ministers of the gospel should look upon themselves as God's servants, and act in every thing suitably to that character. The apostle did so, by much patience in afflictions, by acting from good principles, and by due temper and behaviour. Believers, in this world, need the grace of God, to arm them against temptations, so as to bear the good report of men without pride; and so as to bear their reproaches with patience. They have nothing in themselves, but possess all things in Christ. Of such differences is a Christian's life made up, and through such a variety of conditions and reports, is our way to heaven; and we should be careful in all things to approve ourselves to God. The gospel, when faithfully preached, and fully received, betters the condition even of the poorest. They save what before they riotously spent, and diligently employ their time to useful purposes. They save and gain by religion, and thus are made rich, both for the world to come and for this, when compared with their sinful, profligate state, before they received the gospel.