Acts 20:19
serving the Lord with all humility, and with tears, and trials which befell me by the plots of the Jews;
Acts 20:3
And when he had stayed three months, a plot having been laid for him by the Jews as he was about to sail for Syria, he resolved to return through Macedonia.
Acts 20:31
Therefore be watchful, and remember that for the space of three years, night and day, I ceased not to warn every one with tears.
Romans 12:11
Be not backward in zeal; be fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.
2 Corinthians 2:4
For out of much distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that ye should be made sorrowful, but that ye might know the exceeding love which I have for you.
Philippians 3:18
For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ;
Colossians 3:24
knowing that from the Lord ye will receive the recompense of the inheritance; serve Christ as your Lord.
Luke 19:41
And when he came near, as he beheld the city, he wept over it,
John 12:26
If any one be a servant to me, let him follow me; and where I am, there also will my servant be; if any one serve me, the Father will honor him.
Acts 9:23-25
But after many days had passed, the Jews took counsel together to kill him;
Acts 13:50-51
But the Jews stirred up the women of rank who worshipped God, and the chief men of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them from their borders.
Acts 14:5-6
And when a movement was made both of the gentiles, and the Jews with their rulers, to abuse and stone them,
Acts 14:19-20
But there came thither Jews from Antioch and Iconium; who, having persuaded the multitudes, and stoned Paul, dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.
Acts 17:5
But the unbelieving Jews, taking with them certain bad men of the idlers in the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar; and having come to the house of Jason, they endeavored to bring them out to the people;
Acts 17:13
But when the Jews of Thessalonica knew that at Beroea, too, the word of God was preached by Paul, they came hither also, and stirred up the multitudes.
Acts 27:23
For there stood by me this night an angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,
Romans 1:1
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, a called apostle, set apart to preach the gospel of God,
Romans 1:9
For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how constantly I make mention of you, always in my prayers
1 Corinthians 4:9-13
For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles as lowest, as men sentenced to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.
1 Corinthians 15:9-10
For I am the least of the apostles, one not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
2 Corinthians 3:5
not that we are able of ourselves to think anything, as from ourselves; but our ability is from God;
2 Corinthians 4:7-11
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not of us;
2 Corinthians 7:5
For indeed when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.
2 Corinthians 11:23-30
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself,) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often;
2 Corinthians 12:7-10
And that I might not be too much lifted up by the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to buffet me, that I might not be too much lifted up.
Galatians 1:10
For do I now seek the favor of men, or of God? Or am I endeavoring to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
Galatians 4:13-14
Nay, ye know that it was on account of an infirmity of the flesh that I preached the gospel to you the former time,
Ephesians 6:7
doing service with good will, as to the Lord, and not to men;
1 Thessalonians 1:9
For they themselves are reporting concerning us what kind of reception we had among you, and how ye turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God,
2 Timothy 1:4
longing to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;
James 1:2
Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various temptations;
1 Peter 1:6
wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a short time, if need be, made sorrowful by manifold trials,
2 Peter 1:1
Symeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of our God, and the Saviour Jesus Christ:
Revelation 7:15
Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple; and he that sitteth on the throne will make his abode with them.