Acts 20:24

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Acts 20:24

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

None

Neither

Revelation 12:11

I might

And the

To testify

Acts 20:21

John 15:27

Hebrews 2:3

General references

Matthew 16:25

Luke 9:24

Philippians 1:13

Bible References

None

But Paul answered, What do you do, to weep and break my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall affliction or distress, persecution or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword?

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Therefore, having this ministry, as we have obtained mercy we faint not,

but in every thing commending ourselves as ministers of God, in great patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

I have great boldness towards you, and great glorying on your account; I am full of comfort, I have a super-abounding joy in all our afflictions.

Most gladly, therefore, will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Wherefore I am well pleased with infirmities, with injuries, with necessities, with persecutions, with distresses for Christ; for when I am weak, then am I strong.

Wherefore I desire you not to faint on account of my afflictions for you, which are your glory.

but having suffered before, and been injuriously treated, as you know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God with much contention.

that no one should be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed for this;

for which cause I suffer these things; but I am not ashamed; for I know in whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep my trust to that day.

persecutions, sufferings, which befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; the great persecutions which I suffered, and the Lord delivered me from all.

but the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that the word should be fully declared by me, and all the nations should hear, and I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.

For you sympathized with those in bonds, and received with joy the plunder of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession, and one that endures.

Therefore also we, having so great a cloud of witnesses lying around us, laying aside every impediment and sin which entirely surrounds us, let us run with patience the race set before us,

Neither

according to my expectation and hope that I shall be ashamed in nothing, but with all boldness as always also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

But if I am even poured out as a libation on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and congratulate you all;

Now I rejoice in sufferings for you, and supply the deficiencies of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the church,

By this we have known love, because he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

And they conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and exposed their lives to death.

I might

I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gayest me to do.

Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain.

I consider not myself, brothers, to have attained it; but this one thing I do; forgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to those before,

For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.

And the

For he was numbered with us, and obtained the inheritance of this service.

But the Lord said to him, Go, for he is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name both before nations and kings, and the children of Israel;

And he said to me, Go, for I will send you to nations far away.

delivering you from the people, and the gentiles, to whom I send you

For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, I am intrusted with a stewardship.

Therefore, having this ministry, as we have obtained mercy we faint not,

PAUL an apostle, not from men nor by man but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead,

but manifested his word in the times which were suitable for it by the preaching with which I was intrusted, according to the command of our Saviour God,

To testify

testifying both to Jews and Greeks the change of mind to God, and the faith in our Lord Jesus.

and you shall also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

how shall we escape who have neglected so great a salvation? which began to be spoken by the Lord, and was affirmed to us by those who heard,

General references

For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake, shall find it.

For whoever wishes to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever shall lose his life for my sake, shall save it.

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