2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they the ministers of Christ? (I speak foolishly) I am above [them]: in labours more abundantly, in stripes exceedingly more, in prisons more frequently, in the most immediate danger of death often.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
2 Corinthians 6:4-5
but in every thing approving ourselves as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits,
Acts 9:16
for I will shew him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake.
2 Corinthians 3:6
Who hath made us also able ministers of the new testament, not of the letter but of the spirit; for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
1 Corinthians 3:5
Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but the ministers through whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to each [of us]?
1 Corinthians 15:30-32
and why do we also expose ourselves to danger every hour?
2 Corinthians 1:9-10
for we ourselves, in ourselves have received the sentence of death, that we should have no confidence in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead.
2 Corinthians 4:11
For we who are yet alive are continually delivered up to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
2 Corinthians 6:9
as unknown, though well known; as dying, and lo! we live; as chastened, yet not given over to death;
Acts 14:19
Then came the Jews from Antioch and Iconium, and gaining over the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.
Acts 16:23-24
And laying on them many stripes, cast them into prison, commanding the jailor to keep them in safe custody:
Acts 20:23
only this, that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying, that bonds and tribulation await thee.
Acts 21:11
And coming to us, he took Paul's girdle, and binding both his own hands and feet together, said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, The man, whose girdle this is, shall the Jews bind in like manner at Jerusalem, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.
Acts 24:26-27
Indeed he had also entertained hope that money would be given him by Paul, in order to release him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and conversed with him.
Acts 25:14
And as their stay there was extended to a considerable time, Festus communicated to the king Paul's affairs, saying, There is a certain man left by Felix, a prisoner:
Acts 27:1
NOW as it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan cohort.
Acts 28:16
And when we were come to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard; but he permitted Paul to have an apartment by himself, with a soldier only who guarded him.
Acts 28:30
But Paul abode two whole years in his own hired apartment, and received all who came to him,
Romans 8:36
As it is written, "That for thy sake we have been put to death the whole day long; we have been reckoned indeed as sheep for slaughter."
1 Corinthians 4:1
LET a man so account of us, as the under servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
2 Corinthians 10:7
Regard ye the things that are personal? If any man is confident in himself that he is Christ's, let him reflect again in himself, that as he is Christ's, so are we Christ's.
2 Corinthians 11:5
For I reckon myself to be nothing inferior to the very chief of the apostles.
2 Corinthians 11:24-25
Of the Jews five times I have received forty stripes save one.
2 Corinthians 12:11-12
Have I become a fool in boasting? ye have compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing have I been inferior to the very chief apostles, though I be nothing.
Ephesians 3:1
FOR this cause [am] I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
Ephesians 4:1
I THEN, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you, that ye walk worthy of the vocation with which ye are called,
Ephesians 6:20
for which I am an ambassador in bonds; that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
Philippians 1:13
so that my bonds are manifest in Christ through the whole palace, and all other places;
Philippians 2:17
Yea, and should I become the victim, in the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh the measure of afflictions for Christ which remains to be endured for his body, which is the church,
Colossians 1:29
for which also I am labouring, conflicting in the energy of his might, which worketh in me powerfully.
1 Thessalonians 3:2
and sent Timothy our brother, and a minister of God, and our fellow-labourer in the gospel of Christ, that he might stablish you, and comfort you concerning your faith:
1 Timothy 4:6
If thou suggest these truths to the brethren, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and sound doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
2 Timothy 1:8
Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but suffer affliction with me in the gospel, supported by the power of God;
2 Timothy 1:16
The Lord grant mercy unto the household of Onesiphorus because he frequently was a refreshment to my soul, and was not ashamed of my chain:
2 Timothy 2:9
for which I suffer affliction, even unto chains as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound.
Hebrews 10:34
For ye have been fellow-sufferers with my bonds, and received with joy the plundering of your properties, knowing in yourselves that you have in the heavens a better substance, and permanent.