Acts 20:19 Cross References - ABU

¹⁹ serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and trials which befell me by the plottings of the Jews;

⁴¹ And when he came near, as he saw the city, he wept over it,

²⁶ If any one serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be. If any one serve me, him will the Father honor.

²³ And when many days were completed, the Jews took counsel to kill him. ²⁴ But their lying in wait became known to Saul. And they were watching the gates day and night to kill him. ²⁵ But the disciples took him by night, and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.

⁵⁰ But the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out from their borders. ⁵¹ And they, having shaken off the dust of their feet against them, came to Iconium.

⁵ And when a movement was made, both of the Gentiles and Jews with their rulers, to abuse and stone them, ⁶ they, being aware of it, fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the region around;

¹⁹ But there came thither Jews from Antioch and Iconium; and having persuaded the people, and stoned Paul, they drew him out of the city, supposing that he was dead. ²⁰ But the disciples having gathered around him, he rose up, and came into the city; and on the morrow he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.

⁵ But the Jews, moved with envy, having taken to them, of the idlers in the market-place, certain vicious men, and having gathered a crowd, set the city in an uproar; and assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them unto the people.

¹³ But when the Jews of Thessalonica knew that also at Beroea the word of God was preached by Paul, they came, stirring up the people there also.

³ And after he had stayed three months, a plot being laid for him by the Jews, as he was about sailing to Syria, it was resolved that he should return through Macedonia.

³¹ Therefore watch, remembering that for the space of three years, night and day, I ceased not to warn every one with tears.

²³ For there stood by me this night an angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,

¹ PAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, set apart unto the gospel of God,

⁹ For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;

¹¹ in diligence, not slothful; in spirit, fervent, serving the Lord;

⁹ For I think that God set forth us the apostles last, as condemned to death; for we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men. ¹⁰ We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honorable, but we are despised. ¹¹ Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; ¹² and labor, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it; ¹³ being defamed, we entreat; we have become as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things unto this day.

⁹ For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. ¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

⁴ For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye might have sorrow, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly toward you.

⁵ Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be God's, and not of us; ⁸ being pressed in every way, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not despairing; ⁹ persecuted, yet not forsaken; cast down, yet not destroyed; ¹⁰ always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that also the life of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. ¹¹ For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

⁵ For indeed, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted in every way; without were fightings, within were fears.

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself,) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more abundantly, in deaths often; ²⁴ of the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one; ²⁵ thrice I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; thrice I suffered shipwreck; a night and a day I have spent in the deep; ²⁶ by journeyings often, by perils of rivers, by perils of robbers, by perils from my countrymen, by perils from the heathen, by perils in the city, by perils in the wilderness, by perils in the sea, by perils among false brethren; ²⁷ by weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. ²⁸ Beside those things that are without, there is that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the churches. ²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I do not burn? ³⁰ If I must needs boast, I will boast of things which belong to my infirmity.

⁷ And that I might not be exalted overmuch through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch. ⁸ Concerning this I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. ⁹ And he said to me: My grace is sufficient for thee; for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may abide upon me. ¹⁰ Wherefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then I am powerful.

¹⁰ For do I now seek the favor of men or of God? Or am I seeking to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I should not be Christ's servant.

¹³ Nay, ye know that by reason of weakness of the flesh I preached the glad tidings to you the former time; ¹⁴ and my trial, which was in my flesh, ye despised not nor spurned, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

⁷ with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men;

¹⁸ For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ;

²⁴ knowing that from the Lord ye will receive the recompense of the inheritance. Serve the Lord Christ.

⁹ For they themselves report concerning us, what manner of entrance we had to you, and how ye turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God,

⁴ longing to see thee, remembering thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;

² Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various temptations;

⁶ Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a little time, if need be, made sorrowful by manifold trials;

¹ SIMON PETER, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

¹⁵ Therefore are they before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them.