Acts 21:13 Cross References - Living_Oracles

¹³ But Paul answered, What do you mean, thus weeping, and breaking my heart? for I am ready, not only to be bound; but also to die at Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus.

³¹ I solemnly declare, by your rejoicing, what I also have in Christ Jesus our Lord, that every day I die.

⁴¹ And they departed from the presence of the Sanhedrim. rejoicing that they were counted worthy to be exposed to infamy for the sake of his name.

¹⁶ for I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name.

²⁴ But I make no account of any of these things, nor do I regard even life itself; so that I may but joyfully finish my course, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, even to testify the good news of the favor of God.

³⁷ And there was great lamentation among them all: and falling upon Paul's neck, they kissed him;

³⁵ Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will affliction, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ As it is written, "Truly, for thy sake, we are put to death all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter." ³⁷ Nay, in all these things, we do more than overcome, through him who has loved us.

¹⁰ At all times carrying about in the body, the putting to death of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body. ¹¹ For we who live are always exposed to death for the sake of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh. ¹² So that death works in us, but life in you. ¹³ Yet, having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, "I believed, therefore I have spoken"; we, also, believe, and therefore speak; ¹⁴ knowing that he who raised up the Lord Jesus, will raise us up, also, by Jesus, and will present us with you. ¹⁵ For all these things are for your sakes; that the favor which has abounded to many, may, through the thanksgiving of the greater number, redound to the glory of God. ¹⁶ Wherefore, we do not faint; but, though, indeed, out outward man is impaired, yet the inward man is renewed, day by day. ¹⁷ For our momentary light afflictions work out for us an eternal weight of glory, great beyond expression;

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool,) I am above them: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, 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 stone, thrice I was ship-wrecked: I have spent a night and a day in the deep. ²⁶ In journeys often, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my countrymen, in dangers from the heathens, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brethren. ²⁷ In labor and toil; in watching often; in hunger and thirst; in fastings often; in cold and nakedness.

²⁰ that agreeably to my earnest expectation and hope, in nothing I shall be ashamed; but that with all boldness, as at all times, so now, also, Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death. ²¹ For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

¹⁷ Yes, and if I be made a drink-offering upon the sacrifice and ministry of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all;

²⁶ For he longed after you all, and was exceedingly grieved, because you had heard that he had been sick.

²⁴ I now rejoice in sufferings for you, and fill up the remainder of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for his body, which is the congregation;

⁴ remembering your tears, I greatly desire to see you, that I may be filled with joy:

⁴ No man who wars entangles himself with the occupations of this life, that he may please him, who has chosen him to be a soldier. ⁵ And also if one contend in the games, he is not crowned unless he contend according to the laws. ⁶ It becomes the husbandman to labor, before he partakes of the fruits.

⁶ For I am shortly to be sacrificed, and the time of my departure is at hand.

¹⁴ knowing, that the putting off of this, my tabernacle, is soon to happen, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has showed me.

¹⁰ Because you have kept the word of my patience, I will also keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try the inhabitants of the earth.

¹¹ And they have overcome him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives to the death.