2 Corinthians 11:23 Cross References - CLV

²³ Servants of Christ are they? (Being insane, I am speaking.) Above them am I! In weariness more exceedingly, in jails more exceedingly, in blows inordinatley, in deaths often. "

¹⁶ for I shall be intimating to him how much he must be suffering for My name's sake."

¹⁹ Yet Jews from Antioch and Iconium come on, and, persuading the throngs, and stoning Paul, they dragged him outside of the city, inferring that he is dead."

²³ Besides, placing on them many blows, they cast them into jail, charging the warden to keep them securely, ²⁴ who, getting such a charge, casts them into the interior jail, and secures their feet in the stocks."

²³ more than that the holy spirit, city by city, certifies to me, saying that bonds and afflictions are remaining for me."

¹¹ And coming to us and picking up Paul's girdle, binding his own feet and hands, he said, "Now this the holy spirit is saying, 'The man whose girdle this is, shall the Jews in Jerusalem be binding thus, and they shall be giving him over into the hands of the nations.'"

²⁶ at the same time expecting also that money will be given him by Paul. Wherefore, sending after him more frequently also, he conversed with him." ²⁷ Now, two years being fulfilled, Felix got a successor, Porcius Festus. Besides, wanting to curry favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul bound."

¹⁴ Now as they tarried more days there, Festus submitted Paul's affairs to the king, saying, "There is a certain man, left prisoner by Felix,

¹ Now, as it was decided that we are to sail away to Italy, they gave over both Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Imperial squadron."

¹⁶ Now when we entered Rome, Paul was permitted to remain by himself together with the soldier who guarded him."

³⁰ Now he remains two whole years in his own hired house, and he welcomed all those going in to him,

³⁶ According as it is written that "On Thy account we are being put to death the whole day, We are reckoned as sheep for slaughter."

⁵ What, then, is Apollos? Now what is Paul? Servants are they, through whom you believe, and as the Lord gives to each."

¹ Thus let a man be reckoning with us - as deputies of Christ, and administrators of God's secrets."

¹⁰ Yet, in the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace, which is in me, did not come to be for naught, but more exceedingly than all of them toil I - yet not I, but the grace of God which is with me."

³⁰ Why are we also in danger every hour? ³¹ Daily am I dying. By this boast of yours, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus, our Lord, ³² if, as a man, I fight wild beasts in Ephesus, what is the benefit to me? If the dead are not being roused, "we may be eating and drinking, for tomorrow we are dying."

⁹ But we have the rescript of death in ourselves, that we may be having no confidence in ourselves, but in God, Who rouses the dead, ¹⁰ Who rescues us from a death of such proportions, and will be rescuing; on Whom we rely that He will still be rescuing also;"

⁶ Who also makes us competent dispensers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the spirit, for the letter is killing, yet the spirit is vivifying."

¹¹ For we who are living are ever being given up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh."

⁴ but in everything we are commending ourselves as servants of God, in much endurance, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, ⁵ in blows, in jails, in turbulences, in toil, in vigils, in fasts,

⁹ as unknown and recognized, as dying, and lo! we are living, as disciplined and not put to death,

⁷ Are you looking at that on the surface? If anyone is presuming to have confidence in himself to be Christ's, let him be reckoning this again with himself, that, according as he is Christ's, thus also are we. "

⁵ For I am reckoning to be deficient in nothing pertaining to the paramount apostles.

²⁴ By Jews five times I got forty save one. ²⁵ Thrice am I flogged with rods, once am I stoned, thrice am I shipwrecked, a night and a day have I spent in a swamp, "

¹¹ I have become imprudent; you compel me. For I ought to be commended by you, for I am not deficient in anything pertaining to the paramount apostles, even if I am nothing. " ¹² Indeed, the signs of an apostle are produced among you in all endurance, besides in signs and miracles and powerful deeds. "

¹ On this behalf I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you, the nations"

¹ I am entreating you, then, I, the prisoner in the Lord, to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

²⁰ for which I am conducting an embassy in a chain, that in it I should be speaking boldly, as I must speak."

¹³ so that my bonds in Christ become apparent in the whole pretorium and to all the rest,

¹⁷ But even if I am a libation on the sacrifice and ministration of your faith, I am rejoicing myself and rejoicing together with you all."

²⁴ I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for you, and am filling up in my flesh, in His stead, the deficiencies of the afflictions of Christ, for His body, which is the ecclesia"

²⁹ for which I am toiling also, struggling in accord with His operation, which is operating in me with power."

² and we send Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the evangel of Christ, to establish and to console you for the sake of your faith."

⁶ By suggesting these things to the brethren, you should be an ideal servant of Christ Jesus, fostering with the words of faith and of the ideal teaching which you have fully followed."

⁸ You may not be ashamed, then, of the testimony of our Lord, nor yet of me, His prisoner, but suffer evil with the evangel in accord with the power of God,

¹⁶ May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshes me and was not ashamed of my chain,

⁹ in which I am suffering evil unto bonds as a malefactor - but the word of God is not bound.

⁹ because of love I am rather entreating, being such a one as Paul the aged, yet now a prisoner also of Christ Jesus."

³⁴ For you sympathize with my prisoners also, and anticipate the pillage of your possessions with joy, knowing you yourselves have better and permanent property in the heavens."