2 Corinthians 11:28 Cross References - ISV

²⁸ Besides everything else, I have a daily burden because of my anxiety about all the churches.

³⁶ Paul and Barnabas DisagreeA few days later, Paul told Barnabas, “Let’s go back and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord and see how they’re doing.”

⁴⁰ while Paul chose Silas and left after the brothers had entrusted him to the grace of the Lord. ⁴¹ He went through Syria and Cilicia and strengthened the churches.

²³ After spending some time there, he departed and went from place to place through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

² He went through those regions and encouraged the people with everything he had to say. Then he went to Greece

¹⁸ When they came to him, he told them, “You know how I lived among you the entire time from the first day I set foot in Asia. ¹⁹ I served the Lord with all humility, with tears, and with trials that came to me through the plots of the Jews. ²⁰ I never shrank from telling you anything that would help you nor from teaching you publicly and from house to house. ²¹ I testified to both Jews and Greeks about repentance to God and faith in our Lord Jesus. ²² And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am on my way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there, ²³ except that in town after town the Holy Spirit assures me that imprisonment and suffering are waiting for me. ²⁴ But I don’t place any value on my life, if only I can finish my race and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace.
²⁵ “Now I know that none of you among whom I traveled preaching about the kingdom will ever see my face again. ²⁶ I therefore declare to you today that I’m not responsible for the blood of any of you, ²⁷ because I never shrank from telling you the whole plan of God. ²⁸ Pay attention to yourselves and to the entire flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to be shepherds of God’s church, which he acquired with his own blood. ²⁹ I know that when I’m gone, savage wolves will come among you and not spare the flock. ³⁰ Indeed, some of your own men will arise and distort the truth in order to lure the disciples into following them. ³¹ So be alert! Remember that for three years, night and day, I never stopped tearfully warning each of you.
³² “I’m now entrusting you to God and to the message of his grace, which is able to build you up and secure for you an inheritance among all who are sanctified. ³³ I never desired anyone’s silver, gold, or clothes. ³⁴ You yourselves know that I worked with my own hands to support myself and those who were with me. ³⁵ In every way I showed you that by working hard like this we should help the weak and remember the words that the Lord Jesus himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

¹⁴ Both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to wise and to foolish people, I am a debtor.

¹³ I am speaking to you gentiles. Because I am an apostle to the gentiles, I magnify my ministry

¹⁶ to be a minister of the Messiah Jesus to the gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering brought by gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

⁴ and who risked their necks for my life. I am thankful to them, and so are all the churches among the gentiles.

¹⁷ Live according to God’s CallNevertheless, everyone should live the life that the Lord gave him and to which God called him. This is my rule in all the churches.

¹ For I want you to know how much I struggle for you, for those in Laodicea, and for all who have never seen me face to face.