2 Corinthians 11:23
If they are Christian workers?? am talking like a madman!?? am a better one! with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, vastly worse beatings, and in frequent danger of death.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by God's favor I have become what I am, and the favor he showed me has not gone for nothing, but I have worked harder than any of them, although it was not really I but the favor God showed me.
2 Corinthians 6:4-5
On the contrary, as a servant of God I try in every way to commend myself to them, through my great endurance in troubles, difficulties, hardships,
Acts 9:16
For I am going to show him what he will have to endure for my sake."
2 Corinthians 3:6
and he has qualified me to serve him in the interests of a new agreement, not in writing but of spirit. For what is written kills, but the Spirit gives life.
1 Corinthians 3:5
What is Apollos? Or what is Paul? Just servants through whom you came to have faith, as the Lord gave each of us opportunity.
1 Corinthians 15:30-32
Why do we ourselves run such risks every hour?
2 Corinthians 1:9-10
Why, I felt in my heart that the end must be death. That was to keep me from relying on myself instead of on God, who can even raise the dead.
2 Corinthians 4:11
For every day I live I am being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be visible in my mortal nature.
2 Corinthians 6:9
obscure, when I am well known, at the point of death, yet here I am alive, punished, but not dead yet,
Acts 14:19
But some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and won the people over, and they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the town, thinking that he was dead.
Acts 16:23-24
After beating them severely, they put them in jail, and gave the jailer orders to keep close watch of them.
Acts 20:23
except that in every town I visit, the holy Spirit warns me that imprisonment and persecution are awaiting me.
Acts 21:11
He came to see us and took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands with it, and said, "This is what the holy Spirit says: 'The Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt like this, and will hand him over to the heathen!' "
Acts 24:26-27
At the same time he hoped to get money from Paul, and for that reason he used to send for him very often and talk with him.
Acts 25:14
and as they stayed there several days, Festus laid Paul's case before the king. "There is a man here," he said, "who was left in prison by Felix,
Acts 27:1
When it was decided that we were to sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were turned over to an officer of the Imperial regiment, named Julius.
Acts 28:16
When we reached Rome, Paul was given permission to live by himself, with a soldier to guard him.
Acts 28:30
So he stayed for two full years in rented lodgings of his own, and welcomed everybody who came to see him,
Romans 8:36
As the Scripture says, "For your sake we are being put to death all day long, We are treated like sheep to be slaughtered."
1 Corinthians 4:1
The right way for a man to think of us is as Christ's servants, and managers authorized to distribute the secret truths of God.
2 Corinthians 10:7
You look at things externally. If anyone is sure he belongs to Christ, let him think again and understand that I belong to Christ just as much as he.
2 Corinthians 11:5
For I think that I am not in the least inferior to these superfine apostles of yours.
2 Corinthians 11:24-25
Five times I have been given one less than forty lashes, by the Jews.
2 Corinthians 12:11-12
I have been making a fool of myself, but you forced me to do it, when you ought to have been expressing your approval of me. For I am not a bit inferior to your superfine apostles, even if I am nobody!
Ephesians 3:1
This is why I, Paul, whom Jesus the Christ has made a prisoner for the sake of you heathen??2 if at least you have heard how I dealt with the mercy of God that was given me for you,
Ephesians 4:1
So I, the prisoner for the Lord's sake, appeal to you to live lives worthy of the summons you have received;
Ephesians 6:20
for the sake of which I am an envoy, and in prison. Pray that, when I tell it, I may have the courage to speak as I ought.
Philippians 1:13
Thus it is generally known throughout the Imperial Guard and elsewhere that it is for the sake of Christ that I am in prison,
Philippians 2:17
Even if my life is to be poured out as a libation as you offer your faith in a service of sacrifice to God, I am glad to have it so, and I congratulate you upon it,
Colossians 1:24
At present I am glad to be suffering in your interest, and I am making up in my own person what is lacking in Christ's sufferings for the church, which is his body.
Colossians 1:29
That is what I am working for, fighting with all the energy with which he so mightily endows me.
1 Thessalonians 3:2
and I sent my brother Timothy, a servant of God in preaching the good news of the Christ, to strengthen you in your faith
1 Timothy 4:6
If you point this out to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, living on the principles of the faith and the excellent teaching you have had.
2 Timothy 1:8
So you must not be ashamed to testify to our Lord, nor be ashamed of me who am in prison for his sake, but join with me in suffering for the good news, through the power of God.
2 Timothy 1:16
May the Lord show mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often cheered me and was not ashamed of my being in prison.
2 Timothy 2:9
for the sake of which I even suffer imprisonment as a criminal. But God's message is not imprisoned!
Hebrews 10:34
For you showed sympathy with those who were in prison, and you put up with it cheerfully when your property was taken from you, for you knew that you had in yourselves a greater possession that was lasting.