2 Corinthians 11:23

Williams

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

He has qualified even me as a minister of the new covenant, which is not a written but a spiritual covenant. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

On the contrary, I am trying in everything to prove to people that I am a true servant of God: by my tremendous endurance in sorrows, distresses, difficulties;

Then what is Apollos? Or what is Paul? Mere servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord gave each of us his task.

As for us apostles, men ought to think of us as ministers of Christ and trustees to handle God's uncovered truths.

and so I sent my brother Timothy, God's minister in the preaching of the good news of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith,

If you continue to put these things before the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, ever feeding your own soul on the truths of the faith and of the fine teaching which you have followed.

I am

For I consider myself not a single bit inferior to those surpassingly superior apostles of yours!

I have made a fool of myself, but you have forced me to do it, for I am the man who ought to have been constantly approved by you. For I am not a single bit inferior to your surpassingly superior apostles, though really I am "nobody."

In labours

But by God's unmerited favor I have become what I am, and His unmerited favor shown to me was not bestowed for nothing, for I have toiled more extensively than any of them, and yet it was not I but God's unmerited favor working with me.

For this I am toiling and struggling by His active energy which is mightily working in me.

In stripes

Five times I have taken thirty-nine lashes from the Jews,

On the contrary, I am trying in everything to prove to people that I am a true servant of God: by my tremendous endurance in sorrows, distresses, difficulties;

For I am going to show him how great are the sufferings he must endure for my name's sake."

In prisons

For I am going to show him how great are the sufferings he must endure for my name's sake."

Because he had such strict orders, he put them into the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.

except that in town after town the Holy Spirit emphatically assures me that imprisonment and sufferings are awaiting me.

He came to see us and took Paul's belt and with it bound his own hands and feet, and said, "This is what the Holy Spirit says, 'The Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt like this, and then will turn him over to the heathen.'"

At the same time he was hoping to get money from Paul, and so he kept on sending for him and talking with him.

and as they stayed for several days, Festus laid Paul's case before the king. He said, "There is a man here who was left in prison by Felix,

When it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they turned over Paul and some other prisoners to a colonel of the imperial regiment, named Julius.

When we did arrive at Rome, Paul was granted permission to live by himself -- excepting a soldier to guard him.

This is why I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of the heathen --

So I, a prisoner for the Lord's sake, entreat you to live lives worthy of the call you have received,

for the sake of which I am an envoy in prison: so that, when I tell it, I may speak as courageously as I ought.

in this way it has become well known throughout the Imperial Guard and to all the rest here that I am a prisoner in the service of Christ,

So you must never be ashamed of me His prisoner, but suffer for the good news in fellowship with me and by the power of God.

for the sake of which I am suffering hardships even to the extent of wearing chains as though I were a criminal. But God's message is not in chains.

yet I prefer to appeal to you for love's sake, although I am such as I am, Paul an envoy of Christ Jesus but now a prisoner for Him too;

For you showed sympathy with those who were in prison and cheerfully submitted to the violent seizure of your property, for you knew that you had in yourselves and in heaven one that was lasting.

In deaths

Yes, I felt within my very self the sentence of death, to keep me from depending on myself instead of God who raises the dead.

For all the time I continue to live I am being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that in my mortal lower nature the life of Jesus may be clearly shown.

obscure and yet well-known, on the point of dying and yet I go on living, punished and yet not put to death,

But some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and won the crowds by persuasion, and they stoned Paul, and dragged him outside the town, supposing he was dead.

Why too do we ourselves run such risks every hour?

Yes, even if I am pouring out my life as a libation on the sacrifice and service your faith is rendering, I am glad to do so and congratulate you upon it;

I am now glad to be suffering for you, and in my own person I am filling in what is lacking in Christ's sufferings for His body, that is, the church.

General references

Whoever is greatest among you must be your servant.

they had the apostles arrested and put into the common jail.

Why too do we ourselves run such risks every hour?