Acts 20:19 Cross References - Godbey

¹⁹ serving the Lord with all humility, and tears, and temptations, which came upon me through the plots of the Jews:

⁴¹ And when He drew near, seeing the city He wept over it,

²⁶ If any one may minister unto me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall my minister be: if any one may minister unto me, the Father will honor him.

²³ And when many days were being filled up, the Jews issued a verdict to kill him: ²⁴ but their plot was made known to Saul. And they were keeping the gates both day and night in order that they might kill him: ²⁵ and his disciples taking him, let him down through the wall in the night, lowering him in a basket.

⁵⁰ And the Jews stirred up the noble godly women, and the first men of the city, and they raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their borders. ⁵¹ And having cast off the dust from their feet against them, they came into Iconium.

⁵ And when there was a conspiracy of both Gentiles and Jews along with their leaders, to insult and stone them, ⁶ recognizing it, they fled into the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, and Derbe, and the surrounding country;

¹⁹ But the Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the multitudes, stoned Paul, dragged him out of the city, thinking that he was dead; ²⁰ but, the disciples having surrounded him, rising up, he came into the city. And on the following day he came with Barnabas into Derbe;

⁵ But the Jews giving away to jealousy, and receiving to themselves certain wicked men of those around the forum, and raising a mob, continued to put the city in an uproar; and assaulting the house of Jason, they were seeking to lead them out to the people:

¹³ but when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that the word of God was preached by Paul in Berea, they came thither also, agitating and stirring up the rabbles.

³ and having remained three months, a plot rising against him from the Jews, when about to sail for Syria, he was of a mind to return through Macedonia.

³¹ Watch therefore, remembering, that three years night and day I ceased not admonishing you with tears.

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

¹ Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called an apostle, having been separated unto the gospel of God,

⁹ For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how I unceasingly make mention of you always in my prayer;

¹¹ not slothful in business; boiling over in spirit; serving the Lord;

⁹ For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles the last, as exposed to death: that we may become a theater to the world, and to angels, and to men. ¹⁰ We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are glorious, but we are dishonorable. ¹¹ until this hour we both hunger and thirst, and suffer for insufficient clothing, and are buffeted; and we tramp, ¹² and we toil working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure it; ¹³ being scandalized, we entreat: we have become as the offscourings of the world, the refuse 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 was not vain toward me; but I have labored more abundantly than they all: and not I, but the grace of God with me.

⁴ For out of much tribulation and anguish of heart, I wrote to you through many tears; not in order that you may be grieved, but that you may know the divine love which I have unto you exceedingly.

⁵ not that we are able of ourselves to think anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, in order that the excellency of the power, may be of God, and not of us; ⁸ in everything being troubled, but not in difficulties incorrigible; being at a loss, but not utterly at a loss; ⁹ being persecuted, but not forsaken; being cast down, but not destroyed; ¹⁰ always bearing about the dying of Jesus in our body, in order that the life of Jesus may also be made manifest in our bodies. ¹¹ For we while living are always being delivered up to death for the sake of Jesus, in order that the life of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

⁵ For we having come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but in everything being troubled; fightings without, fears within.

²³ Are they the ministers of Christ? (I speak as a mad man,) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes more abundantly, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often; ²⁴ from the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one, ²⁵ thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a day and a night I spent in the deep. ²⁶ Often in journeys, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; ²⁷ in labor and in toil, in vigils often, in hunger and in thirst, in fastings often, in cold and in nakedness. ²⁸ Besides all these, 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 But if it behooves me to glory, I will glory in those things appertaining to my infirmities.

⁷ And that I may not be exalted by the abundance of revelations, a thorn was given unto me in the flesh, the messenger of Satan that he may buffet me, in order that I may not be exalted. ⁸ Three times I called on the Lord concerning this, that it may depart from me. ⁹ And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore most delightfully I will glory the more in my infirmities, in order that the power of Christ may abide on me. ¹⁰ Therefore I delight in infirmities, in insults, in difficulties, in persecutions, and in tight places, for Christ's sake: for when I am without strength, then I am dynamite.

¹⁰ For must I now believe men, or God? whether do I seek to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I would not be the servant of Christ.

¹³ You have not injured me: you know that through weakness of the flesh I formerly preached the gospel unto you: ¹⁴ and you did not despise, nor spit upon, your temptation in my flesh; but you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

⁷ serving with good will as the Lord, and not men:

¹⁸ For many walk about, of whom I frequently spoke to you, and now I speak even weeping, the enemies of the cross of Christ:

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

⁹ for they proclaim concerning what kind of reception we had unto you; and how you turned to God from the idols, to serve the true and the living God,

⁴ longing to see you, remembering your tears, in order that I may be filled with joy;

² Count it all joy, my brethren, when you may fall into manifold temptations.

⁶ In whom you rejoice, if however it is needful, being grieved a little while among manifold temptations: in order

¹ Simon Peter, the servant of God and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those receiving like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.

¹⁵ On account of this they are before the throne of God, and they worship him day and night in his temple, and the one sitting upon the throne will spread his tabernacle over them.