Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

Bible References

What

1 Samuel 15:14
Samuel replied, “Then what is this sound of sheep and cattle I hear?”
Isaiah 3:15
Why do you crush My people
and grind the faces of the poor?”
This is the declaration
of the Lord God of Hosts.
Ezekiel 18:2
“What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel:

The fathers eat sour grapes,
and the children’s teeth are set on edge?
Jonah 1:6
The captain approached him and said, “What are you doing sound asleep? Get up! Call to your god. Maybe this god will consider us, and we won’t perish.”

To weep

Acts 20:37
There was a great deal of weeping by everyone. They embraced Paul and kissed him,
1 Samuel 1:8
“Hannah, why are you crying?” her husband Elkanah asked. “Why won’t you eat? Why are you troubled? Am I not better to you than 10 sons?”
Philippians 2:26
since he has been longing for all of you and was distressed because you heard that he was sick.
2 Timothy 1:4
Remembering your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy,

For

Acts 20:24
But I count my life of no value to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of God’s grace.
Romans 8:35
Who can separate us from the love of Christ?
Can affliction or anguish or persecution
or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
1 Corinthians 15:31
I affirm by the pride in you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord: I die every day!
2 Corinthians 4:10
We always carry the death of Jesus in our body, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they servants of Christ?
I’m talking like a madman—I’m a better one:
with far more labors,
many more imprisonments,
far worse beatings, near death many times.
Philippians 1:20
My eager expectation and hope is that I will not be ashamed about anything, but that now as always, with all boldness, Christ will be highly honored in my body, whether by life or by death.
Philippians 2:17
But even if I am poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.
Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I am completing in my flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for His body, that is, the church.
2 Timothy 2:4
No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in the concerns of civilian life; he seeks to please the recruiter.
2 Timothy 4:6
For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time for my departure is close.
2 Peter 1:14
knowing that I will soon lay aside my tent, as our Lord Jesus Christ has also shown me.
Revelation 3:10
Because you have kept My command to endure, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is going to come over the whole world to test those who live on the earth.
Revelation 12:11
They conquered him
by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony,
for they did not love their lives
in the face of death.

General references

Ezekiel 3:25
And you, son of man, they will put ropes on you and bind you with them so you cannot go out among them.
Matthew 26:46
Get up; let’s go! See, My betrayer is near.”
Philippians 1:13
so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard, and to everyone else, that my imprisonment is in the cause of Christ.

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