2 Corinthians 11:23

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2 Corinthians 11:23

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Summary

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

Ministers

I am

2 Corinthians 11:5

2 Corinthians 12:11

In labours

1 Corinthians 15:10

Colossians 1:29

In stripes

2 Corinthians 11:24

2 Corinthians 6:4

Acts 9:16

In prisons

In deaths

Colossians 1:24

General references

Bible References

Ministers

who also made us qualified helpers of a new covenant, not of a document, but of a spirit, for the document kills but the spirit makes alive.

but in everything commending ourselves as helpers of God, in much perseverance, in afflictions, in necessities, in restrictions,

Who therefore is Paul and who is Apollos? But rather helpers through whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to each man.

Thus let a man regard us as of helpers of Christ, and managers of mysteries of God.

And we sent Timothy, our brother, and a helper of God, and our fellow workman in the good-news of the Christ, in order to establish you and to encourage you about your faith,

Laying these things down to the brothers, thou will be a good helper of Jesus Christ, reared up in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine that thou have followed.

I am

For I reckon to come short in nothing of those, superlative apostles.

I have become foolish, boasting. Ye compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I came short in nothing of those, superlative apostles, even though I am nothing.

In labours

But by the grace of God I am what I am. And his grace for me did not become empty, but I labored more abundantly than them all, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

For which also I labor, striving according to his working, which works in me with power.

In stripes

From the Jews five times I received forty save one.

but in everything commending ourselves as helpers of God, in much perseverance, in afflictions, in necessities, in restrictions,

For I will give him a glimpse of how many things it is necessary for him to suffer for my name.

In prisons

For I will give him a glimpse of how many things it is necessary for him to suffer for my name.

who, having received such an order, threw them into the inner prison, and fastened their feet in the stocks.

except that the Holy Spirit testifies from city to city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me.

And having come to us, and having taken Paul's belt, having bound both his feet and hands, he said, The Holy Spirit says these things: Thus the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man whose belt this is, and will deliver him into the h

He also hoped simultaneously that money would be given him by Paul so that he might free him. And so, summoning him more frequently, he conversed with him.

And as he was remaining there more days, Festus declared to the King the things concerning Paul, saying, There is a certain man who was left behind a prisoner by Felix,

And when it was determined for us to sail for Italy, they delivered both Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the band of Augustus.

And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the commandant, but Paul was allowed to dwell by himself with the soldier who guarded him.

For this reason I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

I therefore, the prisoner in Lord, call on you to walk worthily of the calling in which ye were called,

for which I am an ambassador in bondage, so that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

in order for my bonds in Christ to became apparent in the whole Praetorium, and in all the others.

Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord nor of me his prisoner, but suffer together with the good-news according to the power of God.

within which I suffer evil to the point of bonds as an evildoer, but the word of God is not bound.

because of love I rather beseech, being such as aged Paul, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

For ye were both compassionate about my bonds, and ye accepted with joy the plundering of your possessions, knowing yourselves to have a superior and an enduring existence in the heavens.

In deaths

But we ourselves have had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we should not be trusting in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead.

For we who live are always given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that also the life of Jesus may be made visible in our mortal flesh.

as unknown, and well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not put to death;

But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium. And having persuaded the crowds, and having stoned Paul, they dragged him out of the city, after presuming him to be dead.

And we, why are we in peril every hour?

Yet even if I am poured out a libation upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.

I now rejoice in sufferings for you, and make complete in my flesh things lacking of the afflictions of the Christ for his body, which is the church.

General references

And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up. I cannot go into the house of LORD.

But the greater of you will be your helper.

And they threw their hands on the apostles, and put them in the public prison.

And we, why are we in peril every hour?