2 Corinthians 11:23

MNT

2 Corinthians 11:23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Matthew 23:11

Acts 5:18

1 Corinthians 15:30

Bible References

Ministers

It is he who has also made me sufficient as a minister of a new covenant; not of a letter but of a spirit; for the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive.

but in every way I am striving to commend myself as God's minister by stedfast endurance, by afflictions, by troubles, by distresses,

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Just ministers through whom you have believed, and each doing the work that the Lord gave him.

Let any man look upon us as servants of Christ, and stewards of the secret truths of God.

I sent Timothy, my brother and God's fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen you and to hearten you in your faith.

As you lay all these things before the brothers, you will be a noble minister of Christ Jesus, nourishing yourself in the precepts of the faith and that noble teaching which you have followed.

I am

For I reckon that I am in no respect behind your superapostolic apostles.

I am become a fool??ou have forced me to; for you yourselves ought to have been my vindicators. In no respect am I inferior to these superapostolic apostles, even though I am nothing.

In labours

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and that grace of his, bestowed upon me, did not prove ineffectual. I labored more abundantly than all the rest, yet not I, but by the grace of God that is with me.

For that end I am ever toiling, wrestling with all that energy of his which is mightily at work within me.

In stripes

Five times at the hands of the Jews, I have received one short of forty lashes.

but in every way I am striving to commend myself as God's minister by stedfast endurance, by afflictions, by troubles, by distresses,

"for I am going to show him all he has to suffer for the sake of my name."

In prisons

"for I am going to show him all he has to suffer for the sake of my name."

On receiving so strict an order he cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

except that in city after city the Holy Spirit is warning me that bonds and afflictions are awaiting me.

He came to us, and taking Paul's girdle, he bound his own feet and hands, saying, "Thus says the Holy Spirit, 'so will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the owner of this girdle, and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"

He was hoping that Paul would give him money, and for this reason he used to send for him often to converse with him.

And while they tarried many days, Festus laid Paul's case before the king. "There is a man here," he said, "whom Felix left a prisoner.

When it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they proceeded to hand over Paul and a few other prisoners to the custody of Julius, a centurion of the Imperial Regiment.

When we finally entered Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself with the soldier to guard him.

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles??2 for surely you have heard of the stewardship of the grace of God entrusted to me for you?

I summon you then, I the prisoner in the Lord, to live lives worthy of the calling to which you were called.

and in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it boldly as I ought to speak.

Throughout the whole Praetorian guard and among all the others it has become plain that these chains of mine are for the sake of Christ;

Do not then be ashamed to bear witness for our Lord, nor for me, his prisoner. Nay, join with me in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.

For preaching it I am suffering, and am even put in chains as a malefactor.

yet for love's sake, I rather beseech you, I, Paul, an old man, and now a prisoner for Christ Jesus!

For you did sympathize with the prisoners, and you did take joyfully the confiscation of your goods; conscious that you had for yourselves greater, even lasting possessions.

In deaths

Indeed, I had in myself, and still have, the sentence of death, in order that I might not rely on myself, but on God who raises the dead to life.

For, alive though I am, I am always given over to death for the sake of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may shine forth in my dying flesh.

as unknown and yet well known; as at death's door, yet, strange to tell, I live on; as chastened, but not killed;

And now a party of Jews came down form Antioch and Iconium, and after persuading the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.

Yes, and why am I myself exposed to danger every hour?

Nay, even if my life is to be poured out as a libation upon the sacrifice and service of you faith,

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings on your behalf; and I am filling up in my own body what is yet lacking of the sufferings of Christ in behalf of the church, his Body.

General references

"Whoever is great among you shall be your minister;

and they apprehended the apostles, and threw them into the public prison.

Yes, and why am I myself exposed to danger every hour?