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Medium still life of heavily worn hand tools and frayed work cloth on a bare ancient bench, no people.
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2 Corinthians 11:23

Service Through Repeated Suffering

Service, Suffering, and the Folly of Boasting · 2 Corinthians 11

Story guide: Visual essay: Worn tools introduce the labor in Paul's account; they are contextual objects rather than relics.

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23Are they servants of Messiah? I am speaking as if insane: I am more so—in labors more abundantly, in imprisonments more abundantly, in beatings beyond measure, in deaths often.

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