Acts 20:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:

Serving

With all

Galatians 4:13

Many

Temptations

1 Peter 1:6

By the

General references

1 Corinthians 2:3

Bible References

Serving

For this night an angel of the God whose I am and whom I serve came to me,

If anyone serves me, he must follow me, and where I am, there my servant will be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called [to be] an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,

not lagging in diligence, being enthusiastic in spirit, serving the Lord,

For am I now making an appeal to people or [to] God? Or am I seeking to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ.

serving with goodwill as to the Lord and not to people,

[because you] know that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. Serve the Lord Christ.

For [they] themselves report about us, what sort of welcome we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve [the] living and true God,

Simeon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a faith equal in value to ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ.

Because of this, they are before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple, and the one who is seated on the throne {will shelter} them.

With all

For I am the least of the apostles, not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as from ourselves, but our adequacy [is] from God,

For even [when] we arrived in Macedonia, our body had no rest, but we were afflicted in every [way]--quarrels outside, fears within.

even because of the extraordinary degree of the revelations. Therefore, so that I would not exalt myself, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan, in order that it would torment me so that I would not exalt myself.

But you know that because of an illness of the flesh I proclaimed the gospel to you the first time.

Many

Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day [for] three years I did not stop warning each one [of you] with tears.

Streams of water flow down [from] my eyes, because [people] do not heed your law.

{Oh that my head were waters}, and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night, [for] the slain of the daughter of my people.

But if you will not listen to it, my inner self will weep in secret places, because of {the presence of} [your] pride. And my eyes will weep bitterly, and they will melt [in] tears, because the flock of Yahweh has been taken captive.

And when he approached [and] saw the city, he wept over it,

For out of great distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not so that you may be caused to be sad, but so that you may know the love that I have especially for you.

For many live, of whom I spoke about to you many times, but now speak about even weeping, [as] the enemies of the cross of Christ,

longing to see you [as I] remember your tears, so that I may be filled with joy,

Temptations

For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as condemned to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to people.

But we have this treasure in earthenware jars, in order that the extraordinary degree of the power may be from God and not from us.

Are they servants of Christ?--I am speaking as though I were beside myself--I [am] more so, with far greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with beatings to a much greater degree, in [danger of] death many times.

Consider [it] all joy, my brothers, whenever you encounter various trials,

in which you rejoice greatly, [although] now for a short time, if necessary, you are distressed by various trials,

By the

and stayed three months. [Because] a plot was made against him by the Jews [as he] was about to set sail for Syria, he came to a decision to return through Macedonia.

And when many days had elapsed, the Jews plotted to do away with him.

But the Jews incited the devout women of high social standing and the most prominent men of the city, and stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and threw them out of their district.

So when an inclination took place [on the part] of both the Gentiles and the Jews, together with their rulers, to mistreat [them] and to stone them,

But the Jews were filled with jealousy and, taking along some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace and forming a mob, threw the city into an uproar. And attacking Jason's house, they were looking for them to bring [them] out to the popular assembly.

[I have been] on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from [my own] people, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers because of false brothers,

General references

And I came to you in weakness and in fear and with much trembling,