Philippians 1:30 Cross References - MNT

³⁰ while you wage the same conflict which you once saw in me, and now hear that I maintain.

³³ I have said all this to you that in me you might have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but be courageous; I have overcome the world."

¹⁹ But when her owners saw that their hopes of gain were gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them before the magistrates, into the market-place. ²⁰ Then they brought them before the praetors, saying. "These fellows are Jews, who are making a great disturbance in our city. ²¹ "They are teaching customs which it is not lawful for us as Romans to adopt or practise." ²² The crowd, too, rose up together against them, and the praetors, after having them stripped, and after ordering them to be flogged, ²³ had many lashes inflicted upon them, and put them in prison, with a charge to the jailer to keep them safe. ²⁴ On receiving so strict an order he cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. ²⁵ But at midnight, while Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them, ²⁶ suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the very foundations of the prison-house were shaken; and instantly all the doors were opened, and every one's chains fell off. ²⁷ The jailer, roused from sleep, and seeing the doors wide open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, because he thought that the prisoners had escaped. ²⁸ But Paul shouted loudly to him. "Do yourself no harm; for we are all here!" ²⁹ So he called for lights, and sprang in, and, trembling for fear, fell down before Paul and Silas, ³⁰ and brought them out, saying, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" ³¹ "Believe on the Lord Jesus," they answered, "and you will be saved, you and all your household." ³² Then they spoke the message of the Lord to him, as well as to all who were in his house. ³³ And he took them, the same hour of the night, and washed their wounds, and he was baptized at once, he and all his. ³⁴ And after bringing them up into his house, he set food before them, overjoyed with all his household in having believed in God. ³⁵ But in the morning the praetors sent their lictors with the order, "Let these men go." ³⁶ The jailer reported the words to Paul, saying. "The praetors have sent to release you; so come out, and go in peace." ³⁷ But Paul said: "They have flogged us publicly, uncondemned, men that are Roman citizens; and have thrown us into prison. Are they now going to get rid of us secretly? No, indeed! Let them come here, themselves and take us out." ³⁸ The lictors reported these words to the praetors, who were frightened when they heard that they were Romans. ³⁹ So they came and conciliated them, and after taking them out of prison, begged them to leave the town. ⁴⁰ So Paul and Silas came out of the prison, and went to Lydia's house; and after they had seen the brethren and encouraged them, they left Philippi.

³⁵ What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall anguish, or calamity, or persecution, or famine? Shall nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ Even as it is written. For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. ³⁷ Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors Through Him who loved us.

⁹ But it seems to me that God has exhibited us apostles, last of all, like men doomed to death; for we are made a spectacle to the whole world, both to men and to angels. ¹⁰ For Christ's sake we are fools, but you are quite philosophic in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are outcast. ¹¹ Even to his very hour we are enduring hunger and thirst and nakedness and blows. ¹² Homeless men, we toil, working with our own hands. ¹³ When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when defamed, we conciliate. We have been made, as it were, scum-o'-the-earth, the very refuse of the world, to this very hour! ¹⁴ I am not writing this to shame you, but to admonish you, as my beloved children.

³⁰ Yes, and why am I myself exposed to danger every hour? ³¹ Every day I am facing death, my brothers, I affirm it by that pride in you which I have through Christ Jesus our Lord. ³² If after the manner of men I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what good does it do me? If the dead do not rise, Let us eat and drink, For we shall be dead tomorrow.

¹¹ Put on all the panoply of God, so that you may be able to stand your ground against the stratagems of the devil. ¹² For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the despotisms, the empires, the rulers of this present darkness, the spirit-hosts of evil in the heavenly realm. ¹³ Therefore take up the panoply of God, so that when the evil day comes you may be able to withstand them, and having overthrown them all, to stand your ground. ¹⁴ Stand firm then, girt about with the belt of truth, and wearing the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵ and having your feet shod with the stability of the gospel of peace. ¹⁶ And take up to cover you the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the flaming darts of the Evil One. ¹⁷ Take likewise the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. ¹⁸ Continue to pray at all times, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching for it with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

²⁹ For that end I am ever toiling, wrestling with all that energy of his which is mightily at work within me.

² for you remember that although I had already borne ill-treatment and insult at Philippi, I took courage in my God to tell you the gospel of God, in the face of much opposition.

¹⁴ For you, brothers, began to follow the example of the churches of God in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus; and you in your turn suffered at the hands of your fellow citizens persecutions like to those which they endured from the Jews— ¹⁵ The men who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out—they are displeasing to God, and are the enemies of all mankind.

² I sent Timothy, my brother and God's fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen you and to hearten you in your faith. ³ So that no one should be shaken by these troubles—for you know well that we are appointed to troubles. ⁴ For even when I was with you I used to tell you beforehand that I was to suffer affliction; and so it proved, as you know.

¹² Keep contending in the noble contest of the faith; seize hold on eternal life, to which you were called when you confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

¹⁰ But God's message is no prisoner. That is why I endure everything for the sake of the chosen, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. ¹¹ Faithful is the saying. "If we have died with him, we shall also live with him. ¹² If we endure suffering, we shall also reign with him. If we disown him, he too will disown us.

⁷ I have fought in the glorious contest; I have run the race; I have kept the faith.

³² But ever call to mind the former days, in which, after having been enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings; ³³ partly by being made a public spectacle in reproaches and afflictions, and partly by sharing the fortunes of those that were so used.

⁴ Not yet have you resisted unto blood in your fight against sin;

¹⁰ Fear not what you are about to suffer! Behold, the devil is indeed going to put some of you in prison, that you may be tested, and you will have persecution for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life. ¹¹ Let him who has ears, listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. He that overcomes shall not be hurt of the second death.

¹¹ And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb, And by the word of their testimony; And they loved not their life, even unto death.