2 Corinthians 11:23

Paul Boasts In His Sufferings

²² Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they of the posterity of Abraham? So am I. ²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I say it foolishly,) I am above them. In labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often. ²⁴ From the Jews, five times I received forty stripes, save one;

As a Fool

Point of Death

Servants of Christ

In Labor

Ministers Of Christ

Christ

Messiah

1 Corinthians 15:10

But, by the grace of God, I am what I am; and his grace, which was bestowed on me, has not been bestowed in vain: but I have labored more abundantly than they all; not I, how ever, but the grace of God which was with me.

2 Corinthians 6:4-5

but in all things we commend ourselves as the ministers of God, in much suffering, in afflictions, in distresses, in straits,

Acts 9:16

For I will show him what great things he must suffer for my name.

2 Corinthians 3:6

who has made us able ministers of the new covenant, not of letter, but. of spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive.

1 Corinthians 3:5

Who, then, is Paul? and who is Apollos? Ministers by whom you have believed, even as the Lord gave to each one.

1 Corinthians 15:30-32

And why are we in danger every hour?

2 Corinthians 1:9-10

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

2 Corinthians 4:11

For we who live are continually delivered up to death for Jesus sake, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

2 Corinthians 6:9

as unknown, yet well-known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and yet not put to death;

Acts 14:19

Then came thither, from Antioch and Iconium, Jews, who persuaded the multitudes; and having stoned Paul, they dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

Acts 16:23-24

And when they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, and charged the jailer to keep them securely.

Acts 20:23

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

Acts 21:11

and he came to us, and taking Paul's girdle, he bound his own hands and feet, and said: Thus says the Holy Spirit; the Jews that are in Jerusalem will so bind the man to whom this girdle belongs; and they will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.

Acts 24:26-27

He hoped, at the same time, that money would have been given him by Paul, to release him. For this reason, he sent for him very frequently, and conversed with him.

Acts 25:14

And as they remained there many days, Festus made known to the king the facts concerning Paul, saying: There is a certain man, who was left in bonds by Felix,

Acts 27:1

And as it was determined that we should sail to Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan band, named Julius.

Acts 28:16

When we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard; but Paul was permitted to dwell by himself, with a soldier that guarded him.

Acts 28:30

And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own rented house, and received all that came to him,

Romans 8:36

As it is written: For thy sake, we are killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

1 Corinthians 4:1

Let each one so think of us as ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

2 Corinthians 10:7

Do you look on things according to the outward appearance? If any one trusts in himself, that he is Christ s, let him again reason thus of himself: that as he is Christ s, so also are we.

2 Corinthians 11:5

I count myself indeed to be in no respect inferior to the very greatest of the apostles.

2 Corinthians 11:24-25

From the Jews, five times I received forty stripes, save one;

2 Corinthians 12:11-12

I have become of no understanding; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you: I am in no respect inferior to the very greatest of the apostles, although I am nothing.

Ephesians 3:1

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

Ephesians 4:1

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called;

Ephesians 6:20

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

Philippians 1:13

so that my bonds which are for Christ have become known to be such in all the palace, and in all other places;

Philippians 2:17

But if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up what remains of my sufferings for Christ in my flesh for the sake of his body, which is the church,

Colossians 1:29

to which end I also labor, striving according to his energy, which works in me mightily.

1 Thessalonians 3:2

and we sent Timothy our brother and minister of God in the gospel of the Christ, in order that he might strengthen and comfort you with respect to your faith,

1 Timothy 4:6

By recommending these things to the attention of the brethren, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, being nourished with the words of the faith, and of good teaching, which you have fully known.

2 Timothy 1:8

Be not, therefore, ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, his prisoner: but jointly suffer evil in the gospel according to the power of God,

2 Timothy 1:16

May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:

2 Timothy 2:9

in which I suffer evil, as an evil-doer, even to bonds: but the word of God is not bound.

Hebrews 10:34

For you sympathized with me in my bonds, and endured joyfully the seizure of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better and abiding substance in the heavens.