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 sufficient to be ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive.

but in everything recommending ourselves as God's ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,

Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave?

Let a man so reckon us as officers of Christ, and stewards of the secrets of God,

and did send Timotheus -- our brother, and a ministrant of God, and our fellow-workman in the good news of the Christ -- to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,

These things placing before the brethren, thou shalt be a good ministrant of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of the faith, and of the good teaching, which thou didst follow after,

I am

for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,

I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.

In labours

and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that is towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that is with me;

for which also I labour, striving according to his working that is working in me in power.

In stripes

from Jews five times forty stripes save one I did receive;

but in everything recommending ourselves as God's ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,

for I will shew him how many things it behoveth him for My name to suffer.'

In prisons

for I will shew him how many things it behoveth him for My name to suffer.'

who such a charge having received, did put them to the inner prison, and their feet made fast in the stocks.

save that the Holy Spirit in every city doth testify fully, saying, that for me bonds and tribulations remain;

and he having come unto us, and having taken up the girdle of Paul, having bound also his own hands and feet, said, 'Thus saith the Holy Spirit, The man whose is this girdle -- so shall the Jews in Jerusalem bind, and they shall deliver him up to the hands of nations.'

and at the same time also hoping that money shall be given to him by Paul, that he may release him, therefore, also sending for him the oftener, he was conversing with him;

and as they were continuing there more days, Festus submitted to the king the things concerning Paul, saying, 'There is a certain man, left by Felix, a prisoner,

And when our sailing to Italy was determined, they were delivering up both Paul and certain others, prisoners, to a centurion, by name Julius, of the band of Sebastus,

And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered up the prisoners to the captain of the barrack, but Paul was suffered to remain by himself, with the soldier guarding him.

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

Call upon you, then, do I -- the prisoner of the Lord -- to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,

for which I am an ambassador in a chain, that in it I may speak freely -- as it behoveth me to speak.

so that my bonds have become manifest in Christ in the whole praetorium, and to the other places -- all,

therefore thou mayest not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but do thou suffer evil along with the good news according to the power of God,

in which I suffer evil -- unto bonds, as an evil-doer, but the word of God hath not been bound;

because of the love I rather entreat, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ;

for also with my bonds ye sympathised, and the robbery of your goods with joy ye did receive, knowing that ye have in yourselves a better substance in the heavens, and an enduring one.

In deaths

but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead,

for always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh,

as unknown, and recognized; as dying, and lo, we live; as chastened, and not put to death;

And there came thither, from Antioch and Iconium, Jews, and they having persuaded the multitudes, and having stoned Paul, drew him outside of the city, having supposed him to be dead;

why also do we stand in peril every hour?

but if also I am poured forth upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and joy with you all,

I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,

General references

And Jeremiah commandeth Baruch, saying, 'I am restrained, I am not able to enter the house of Jehovah;

And the greater of you shall be your ministrant,

and laid their hands upon the apostles, and did put them in a public prison;

why also do we stand in peril every hour?