2 Corinthians 11:23

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2 Corinthians 11:23

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Summary

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

Ministers

I am

2 Corinthians 11:5

2 Corinthians 12:11

In labours

1 Corinthians 15:10

Colossians 1:29

In stripes

2 Corinthians 11:24

2 Corinthians 6:4

Acts 9:16

In prisons

In deaths

Colossians 1:24

General references

Bible References

Ministers

who also has made us able ministers of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.

but in everything commending ourselves as God's servants, in much patience, in troubles, in emergencies, in distresses,

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to each?

So let a man think of us as ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

And we sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith,

Having suggested these things to the brothers, you shall be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the Words of Faith and by the good doctrine which you have followed.

I am

For I judge myself to have come behind the highest apostles in nothing.

I have become foolish boasting. You compelled me. For I ought to be commended by you. For I lacked nothing of the highest apostles, if even I am nothing.

In labours

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace which was toward me has not been without fruit, but I labored more abundantly than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

For which I also labor, striving according to the working of Him who works in me in power.

In stripes

Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one.

but in everything commending ourselves as God's servants, in much patience, in troubles, in emergencies, in distresses,

For I will show him what great things he must suffer for My name's sake.

In prisons

For I will show him what great things he must suffer for My name's sake.

who, having received such a command, thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks.

except that the Holy Spirit witnesses in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me.

And coming to us, and taking Paul's belt, and binding his hands and feet, he said, The Holy Spirit says these things: So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man whose belt this is, and will deliver him into the hands of the nations.

He also hoped that silver would be given him by Paul, that he might free him. Therefore he also frequently sent for him and talked with him.

And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul's cause to the king, saying, A certain man has been left in bonds by Felix,

And when it was determined that we should sail to Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus' cohort.

And when we came into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the camp commander. But Paul was allowed to dwell by himself, with a soldier guarding him.

For this cause, I, Paul, am the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you nations,

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the calling with which you are called,

for which I am an ambassador in bonds; so that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

so that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places.

Therefore you should not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner. But be partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God,

in which I suffer ill as an evildoer, even to bonds. But the Word of God is not chained.

rather through love I entreat, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

For you both sympathized with my bonds and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in Heaven a better and an enduring substance.

In deaths

But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;

For we who live are always being delivered to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus might also be revealed in our body.

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

And Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, who, having persuaded the people, and having stoned Paul, they drew him out of the city, supposing him to have died.

And why are we also in danger every hour?

Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all.

who now rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf, and I fill up the things lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, on behalf of His body, which is the church;

General references

And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up. I cannot go into the house of Jehovah.

But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant.

And laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the public custody.

And why are we also in danger every hour?