Acts 20:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:

Serving

With all

Galatians 4:13

Many

Temptations

1 Peter 1:6

By the

General references

1 Corinthians 2:3

Bible References

Serving

For an angel of the God, whose I am and whom I serve, stood by me this night,

If any one serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there also shall be my servant. And if any one serve me, him shall the Father honour.

Paul, bondman of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, separated to God's glad tidings,

as to diligent zealousness, not slothful; in spirit fervent; serving the Lord.

For do I now seek to satisfy men or God? or do I seek to please men? If I were yet pleasing men, I were not Christ's bondman.

serving with good will as to the Lord, and not to men;

knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance; ye serve the Lord Christ.

for they themselves relate concerning us what entering in we had to you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,

Simon Peter, bondman and apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have received like precious faith with us through the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple, and he that sits upon the throne shall spread his tabernacle over them.

With all

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called apostle, because I have persecuted the assembly of God.

not that we are competent of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our competency is of God;

For indeed, when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted in every way; without combats, within fears.

And that I might not be exalted by the exceeding greatness of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn for the flesh, a messenger of Satan that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted.

But ye know that in weakness of the flesh I announced the glad tidings to you at the first;

Many

Wherefore watch, remembering that for three years, night and day, I ceased not admonishing each one of you with tears.

Mine eyes run down with streams of water, because they keep not thy law.

Oh that my head were waters, and mine eye a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

And if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Jehovah's flock is gone into captivity.

And as he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it,

For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you.

(for many walk of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

earnestly desiring to see thee, remembering thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;

Temptations

For I think that God has set us the apostles for the last, as appointed to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the surpassingness of the power may be of God, and not from us:

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as being beside myself) I above measure so; in labours exceedingly abundant, in stripes to excess, in prisons exceedingly abundant, in deaths oft.

Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various temptations,

Wherein ye exult, for a little while at present, if needed, put to grief by various trials,

By the

And having spent three months there, a treacherous plot against him having been set on foot by the Jews, as he was going to sail to Syria, the resolution was adopted of returning through Macedonia.

Now when many days were fulfilled, the Jews consulted together to kill him.

But the Jews excited the women of the upper classes who were worshippers, and the first people of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their coasts.

And when an assault was making, both of those of the nations and the Jews with their rulers, to use them ill and stone them,

But the Jews having been stirred up to jealousy, and taken to themselves certain wicked men of the lowest rabble, and having got a crowd together, set the city in confusion; and having beset the house of Jason sought to bring them out to the people;

in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the nations, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren;

General references

And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling;