Acts 20:19 Cross References - ACV

¹⁹ serving the Lord with all humility, and many tears and trials that befell me by the conspiracies of the Jews.

¹³⁶ Streams of water run down my eyes, because they do not observe thy law.

¹ Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

¹⁷ But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride. And my eye shall weep greatly, and run down with tears, because LORD's flock is taken captive.

⁴¹ And when he came near, having seen the city, he wept over it,

²⁶ If any man serves me, let him follow me, and where I am, there my helper will also be. And if any man serves me, the Father will honor him.

²³ And after considerable days were fulfilled, the Jews plotted to destroy him, ²⁴ but their plot was known to Saul. And they watched the gates both day and night so that they might destroy him. ²⁵ But the disciples, after taking him by night, let him down through the wall, having lowered him in a hamper.

⁵⁰ But the Jews incited the religious women, and the prominent women, and the principle men of the city, and raised up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas. And they threw them out of their boundaries. ⁵¹ But after shaking off the dust of their feet against them, they came to Iconium.

⁵ And as a violent movement developed, both of the Gentiles and of the Jews, with their rulers, to denounce and to stone them, ⁶ having become aware of it, they fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, and Derbe, and the neighboring region.

¹⁹ But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium. And having persuaded the crowds, and having stoned Paul, they dragged him out of the city, after presuming him to be dead. ²⁰ But the disciples having surrounded him, after rising, he came into the city. And on the morrow he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.

⁵ But the disobedient Jews having taken along certain evil men of the marketplaces, and having gathered a mob, were rioting the city. And having stood by the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the populace.

¹³ But when the Jews of Thessalonica also learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Berea, they came there also, agitating the crowds.

³ And having spent three months there, and a conspiracy having developed against him by Jews, intending to go up into Syria, a decision developed to return through Macedonia.

³¹ Therefore watch ye, remembering that for three years, night and day, I did not cease warning each one with tears.

²³ For there stood by me this night an agent of the God whose I am, whom also I serve,

¹ Paul, a bondman of Jesus Christ, a called apostle having been separated for the good news of God

⁹ For God is my witness whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

¹¹ not lazy in diligence, being fervent in the Spirit serving the Lord,

⁹ For I think God has exhibited us the apostles least, as men sentenced to die, because we became a spectacle to the world, both to agents and to men. ¹⁰ We are foolish for the sake of Christ, but ye are wise in Christ. We are weak, but ye are strong. Ye are esteemed, but we are disreputable. ¹¹ As far as the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are ill clothed, and are treated roughly, and are homeless. ¹² And we toil, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; ¹³ being slandered, we entreat. We became as trash of the world, an offscouring of all things, until now.

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 for me did not become empty, but I labored more abundantly than them all, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

⁴ For out of much stress and dismay of heart, through many tears, I wrote to you, not that ye would be grieved, but that ye might know the love that I have so much more for you.

⁵ not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power may be of God and not from us, ⁸ restricted in everything, yet not confined, perplexed but not despairing, ⁹ persecuted but not forsaken, cast down but not destroyed. ¹⁰ Always carrying around in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, so that also the life of Jesus may be made visible in our body. ¹¹ For we who live are always given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that also the life of Jesus may be made visible in our mortal flesh.

⁵ For even when we came into Macedonia our flesh had not one relief, but being oppressed in everything: battles outside, fears within.

²³ Are they helpers of Christ? (I speak as being mad) I more: in toils, more abundantly; in stripes, countless; in prisons, more frequently; in deaths often. ²⁴ From the Jews five times I received forty save one. ²⁵ Thrice I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I was shipwrecked, I have done a night and a day in the depth, ²⁶ in frequent journeys, in perils of flowing waters, in perils of bandits, in perils from my race, in perils from Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils at sea, in perils among false brothers, ²⁷ in toil and hardship, in frequent sleeplessness, in hunger and thirst, in frequent fasts, in cold and nakedness. ²⁸ Besides the external things, crowding upon me daily is the care of all the congregations. ²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I am not made fiery? ³⁰ If it is necessary to boast, I will boast of the things of my weakness.

⁷ And so that I might not be over exalted by the extraordinariness of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, an agent of Satan so that he would buffet me, so that I would not be over exalted. ⁸ I besought the Lord thrice about this, that it might depart from me. ⁹ And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee, for my power is made fully perfect in weakness. More gladly therefore I will boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of the Christ may reside in me. ¹⁰ Therefore I am pleased in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in restrictions, for the sake of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

¹⁰ For do I now trust men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I were still pleasing men I would not be a bondman of Christ.

¹³ But ye know that through a weakness of the flesh I preached the good news to you the first time. ¹⁴ And ye did not disdain, nor did ye reject my trial in my flesh, but ye received me as an agent of God, as Christ Jesus.

⁷ bond-serving with goodwill, as to the Lord and not to men.

¹⁸ For many walk, who (I told you often, and now also say while weeping) are enemies of the cross of Christ,

²⁴ knowing that from the Lord ye will receive the reward of the inheritance, for ye serve the Lord Christ.

⁹ For they report about us what kind of entrance we had with you, and how ye turned to God from the idols to serve a living and true God,

⁴ longing to see thee, having remembered thy tears, so that I may be filled with joy,

² Consider it all joy, my brothers, when ye encounter various trials,

⁶ In which ye greatly rejoice, although made sorrowful in various trials. Since it is now necessary for a little while,

¹ Simon Peter, a bondman and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received an equally precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

¹⁵ Because of this they are before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple. And he who sits on the throne will dwell among them.