2 Corinthians 11:23 Cross References - Noyes

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself,) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often;

¹⁶ For I myself will show him how great things he must suffer for my names sake.

¹⁹ But there came thither Jews from Antioch and Iconium; who, having persuaded the multitudes, and stoned Paul, dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.

²³ and when they had laid on them many stripes, they cast them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely; ²⁴ who having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

²³ save that the Holy Spirit witnesseth to me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me.

¹¹ and coming to us, he took off Pauls girdle, and bound his own feet and hands, and said, Thus saith the Holy Spirit: So will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and will deliver him into the hands of the gentiles.

²⁶ He hoped also that money would be given him by Paul; on which account he sent for him the oftener, and conversed with him. ²⁷ But after two years Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus; and Felix, wishing to gain favor with the Jews, left Paul bound.

¹⁴ And while they were making a stay of some days there, Festus laid the case of Paul before the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix,

¹ And when it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.

¹⁶ And when we had come to Rome, Paul was permitted to dwell by himself, with the soldier that guarded him.

³⁰ And he abode two whole years in his own hired house and gladly received all that came in to him,

³⁶ As it is written, "For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we were accounted as sheep for slaughter."

⁵ Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but ministers through whom ye believed, and that as the Lord gave to each?

¹ Let a man so account us, as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

³⁰ Why also do we stand in peril every hour? ³¹ I protest, brethren, by my glorying in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, that I die daily. ³² If with the views of men I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me? If the dead rise not, "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

⁹ yea, we ourselves had within ourselves the sentence of death, that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead; ¹⁰ who delivered us from such peril of death, and is delivering; in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us,

⁶ who also gave us ability to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.

¹¹ For we who live are continually delivered up to death for Jesus sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

⁴ but as Gods ministers recommending ourselves in all things, in much endurance, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, ⁵ in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

⁹ as unknown, and well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

⁷ Ye look at the outward appearance. If any one trusteth to himself that he belongeth to Christ, let him of himself consider this again, that as he belongeth to Christ, so also do we.

⁵ For I suppose that I am in no respect behind the very foremost apostles.

²⁴ of the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one; ²⁵ thrice I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have spent in the deep;

¹¹ I have become a fool; it is ye that compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing was I behind the very foremost apostles, though I am nothing. ¹² Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you with all endurance, by signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

¹ For this cause [I bend my knees], I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you gentiles;

¹ I exhort you, therefore, I the prisoner in the Lord, to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,

²⁰ in behalf of which I am an ambassador in chains; that I may proclaim it boldly, as I ought to speak.

¹³ so that my bonds have become known in connection with Christ in the whole camp of the imperial guards, and to all the rest;

¹⁷ But if I am even poured out on the sacrifice and ministration of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

²⁴ Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up instead that which is wanting of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh on behalf of his body, which is the church;

²⁹ to which end I also am laboring, striving earnestly through his working, which worketh within me mightily.

² and sent Timothy, our brother and a fellowlaborer with God in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to encourage you in your faith,

⁶ If thou lay these things before the brethren, thou wilt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good teaching, with which thou art well acquainted.

⁸ Be not then ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship with me for the gospel through the power of God,

¹⁶ The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain; but on the contrary,

⁹ in which I suffer hardship even unto bonds as an evildoer; but the word of God is not bound.

⁹ yet for loves sake I beseech thee rather; being such a one as Paul an old man, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus,

³⁴ For ye sympathized with those in bonds, and ye took joyfully the plundering of your goods, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better and an enduring substance.