2 Timothy 3:11

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Summary

Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.

Persecutions

At antioch

Acts 13:45

Acts 14:2

But

Bible References

Persecutions

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

to serve the Lord with all humility and in tears, through the trials that befell me because of the plots of the Jews.

Who can separate us from Christ's love? Can suffering or misfortune or persecution or hunger or destitution or danger or the sword?

For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on exhibition at the disgraced end of the procession, as they do with men who are doomed to die in the arena.

For I do not want you to be uninformed about the sorrow that I suffered in Asia, because I was so crushed beyond any power to endure that I was in dire despair of life itself.

On every side I am ever hard-pressed, but never hemmed in; always perplexed, but never to the point of despair;

Are they ministers of Christ? So am I. I am talking like a man that has gone crazy -- as such I am superior! -- serving Him with labors greater by far, with far more imprisonments, with floggings vastly worse, and often at the point of death.

partly by being exposed as a public spectacle to insults and violent sufferings, and partly by showing yourselves ready to share with those who were living in this condition.

At antioch

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were completely overcome by their jealousy and began to contradict the statements made by Paul, and even to abuse him.

But the Jews who refused to accept their message aroused and exasperated the minds of the heathen against the brothers.

But

I have fought the fight for the good, I have run my race, I have kept faith.

After several days had gone by, the Jews laid a plot to murder him,

So he at once got together some soldiers and captains and hurried down against them, but as soon as they saw the colonel and his soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

Since the dispute kept growing hotter and hotter, the colonel became alarmed that Paul might be torn in pieces by them, and so ordered the army to march down and take him out of their hands and bring him back to the barracks.

and begged the governor as a favor to have Paul come to Jerusalem, because they were plotting an ambush to kill him on the way.

I will continue to rescue you from the Jewish people and from the heathen to whom I am going to send you,

He saved me from a death so horrible, and He will save me again! He it is on whom I have set my hope that He will still save me,

surely, then, the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from trial and to keep wrongdoers under punishment for the day of judgment,