2 Timothy 3:11 Cross References - WPNT

¹¹ the persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra—what persecutions I endured; yet the Lord delivered me out of them all.

¹⁶ for I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

²³ Now when a good many days had passed, the Jews plotted to kill him; ²⁴ but their plot became known to Saul. They started watching the gates day and night, so that they might kill him; ²⁵ so the disciples took him by night and passed him through the wall, lowering him in a hamper.

¹⁴ Going on from Perga they arrived in Antioch of Pisidia; and entering the synagogue on the Sabbath day, they sat down.

⁴⁵ But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with envy and started speaking against the things said by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

⁵⁰ But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and raised up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their borders. ⁵¹ So they shook off the dust from their feet against them, and went to Iconium.

¹ Now it happened in Iconium that they went together into the synagogue of the Jews, and they spoke to such effect that a large number of both Jews and Greeks believed. ² But the disobedient Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

⁵ But when a plot was hatched by both Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to mistreat and stone them, ⁶ they became aware of it and escaped to the cities of Lycaonia—Lystra, Derbe and the surrounding area—

¹⁹ Then Jews from Antioch and Iconium came, and having persuaded the crowd and having stoned Paul, they dragged him out of the city, supposing him to have died. ²⁰ But as the disciples stood around him, he got up and entered the city. The next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe. ²¹ When they had evangelized that city and discipled a good number, they returned to Lystra and Iconium and Antioch,

¹⁹ serving the Lord with all humility, and with many tears and trials, the ones that happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

²³ except that the Holy Spirit keeps warning me in every city, saying that fetters and afflictions are just waiting for me. ²⁴ However none of this moves me, nor do I regard my life as valuable to myself, just so that I may complete my course with joy, even the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to solemnly proclaim the Good News of the grace of God.

³² He immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran down among them, and when they saw the commander and the soldiers they stopped beating Paul. ³³ Then the commander came up and took hold of him, commanded that he be bound with two chains, and started inquiring who he was and what he had done.

¹⁰ Well the dissension became such that the commander, fearing that Paul might be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and snatch him out of their midst and bring him into the barracks.

¹² And when it was day, some of the Jews formed a conspiracy by binding themselves with a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they had destroyed Paul. ¹³ Now there were more than forty who formed this plot. ¹⁴ They came to the chief priests and the elders and said: “We have bound ourselves with a terrible curse not to taste anything until we have killed Paul. ¹⁵ Now you, therefore, together with the council, explain to the commander that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you are going to determine more accurately the facts in his case; but we are ready to destroy him before he comes near.” ¹⁶ But when Paul’s sister’s son heard about the ambush, he went and entered the barracks and told Paul. ¹⁷ So Paul called one of the centurions and said, “Take this young man to the commander, because he has something to tell him”. ¹⁸ So he took him and brought him to the commander and said, “Paul the prisoner called me over and asked me to bring this young man to you because he has something to tell you”. ¹⁹ So taking him by the hand, the commander went aside and asked privately, “What is it that you have to tell me?” ²⁰ So he said: “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him. ²¹ But you should not believe them, because more than forty of their men are lying in wait for him, who have bound themselves with a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have destroyed him; even now they are ready, looking for your promise.” ²² Then the commander dismissed the young man commanding, “Don’t tell anyone that you have revealed these things to me!” ²³ Summoning two of the centurions he said: “Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea at the third hour of the night; ²⁴ and provide mounts to set Paul on so as to deliver him safely to Felix, the governor.”

³ begging a favor from him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem—preparing an ambush to kill him along the way. ⁴ However Festus answered that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, he himself being about to go there shortly.

¹⁷ delivering you from ‘the people’ and the ethnic nations, to which I am sending you:

²² So then, having experienced the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying to both small and great, saying nothing beyond what both the prophets and Moses said would happen

³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Will it be affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? ³⁶ (As it is written: “For your sake we are being put to death all day long; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.”) ³⁷ No, in all these things we prevail completely through Him who loved us.

⁹ For I keep thinking that God has displayed us, the apostles, at the end of the line, like men sentenced to death; because we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men. ¹⁰ We are fools for Christ while you are wise! We are weak but you are strong! You are esteemed, we are despised! ¹¹ To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty; we are poorly dressed, brutally treated, and wander homeless;

⁸ And so, brothers, we don’t want you to be in ignorance concerning the affliction that came upon us in Asia: we were under extreme pressure, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life. ⁹ Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, so that we not place confidence in ourselves, but in the God who raises the dead; ¹⁰ He did deliver us from that deadly peril, and still delivers; in whom we trust that He will keep on delivering,

⁸ —we are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; ⁹ persecuted, yet not abandoned; knocked down, but not out; ¹⁰ always carrying about in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, so that also the life of Jesus may be manifested in our body. ¹¹ For we, the living, are always being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that also the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I’m being irrational) I am more: in labors more abundantly, in beatings beyond count, in prison more frequently, in ‘deaths’ often — ²⁴ five times from the Jews I received the ‘forty lashes minus one’; ²⁵ three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked (I spent twenty-four hours in the open sea)— ²⁶ in frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, in danger from robbers, in danger from my countrymen, in danger from Gentiles, in danger in cities, in danger in wildernesses, in danger in the sea, in danger among false brothers; ²⁷ in toil and hardship, in many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, in frequent fastings, in cold and nakedness — ²⁸ quite apart from the other things, my daily disturbances, my concern for all the congregations.

⁷ I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

¹⁷ But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the nations might hear. Also, I was delivered out of a lion’s mouth; ¹⁸ and the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and save me into His heavenly Kingdom; to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

³³ partly being publicly exposed to both insults and oppression, and partly siding with those who were so treated. ³⁴ Indeed, you also shared in the suffering of my chains; you even accepted the plundering of your possessions with joy, knowing that you have for yourselves a better and enduring possession in the heavens.

⁹ —then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment,