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 has made us able ministers of the new testament, not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

But in all things showing ourselves as the ministers of God in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,

Who then is Paul? and who is Apollos? but servants by whom ye believed, each one according to that which the Lord gave.

Let us reckon men as ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

and sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of the Christ, to confirm you and to exhort you in your faith,

If thou put these things before the brethren, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, unto which thou hast attained.

I am

I reckon that I have not been inferior in any way to those grandiose apostles.

I have been a fool, glorying; ye have compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you, for in nothing am I behind the grandiose apostles, though I am nothing.

In labours

But by the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace towards me was not in vain, for I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

in which I continue to labour, contending according to his operation, which he works in me mightily.

In stripes

Of the Jews five times I received forty stripes less one.

But in all things showing ourselves as the ministers of God in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,

for I will show him how much it behooves him to suffer for my name.

In prisons

for I will show him how much it behooves him to suffer for my name.

who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks.

except that the Holy Spirit witnesses in every city, saying that prisons and tribulations await me.

And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle and bound his own hands and feet and said, Thus saith the Holy Spirit, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owns this girdle and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.

He hoped also that money should have been given him from Paul, that he might loose him; therefore he sent for him many times and communed with him.

And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul's cause unto the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix,

But when it was determined that we should sail unto Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one named Julius, a centurion of the Augustus company.

And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the praetorian prefect, but Paul was allowed to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.

For this cause I, Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation with which ye are called,

for which I am an ambassador in chains, that in this I may speak boldly as I ought to speak.

so that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace and in all other places;

Therefore be not thou ashamed to give testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel by the power of God,

in which I suffer trouble, like unto an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.

yet for the sake of charity I rather beseech thee, being such a one as Paul the aged and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

For ye had compassion of me in my bonds and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing that in yourselves ye have a better substance in the heavens, and that abides.

In deaths

But we had the sentence of death in ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;

For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, but, behold, we live; as chastened, but not killed;

And certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he was dead.

And why do we stand in jeopardy every hour?

And even if I am poured out as an offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all.

who now rejoice in my sufferings for you and fulfill in my flesh that which is lacking of the tribulations of the Christ for his body's sake, which is the congregation ,

General references

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

But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.

and laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison.

And why do we stand in jeopardy every hour?