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

2 Timothy 1:4

Temptations

1 Peter 1:6

By the

General references

1 Corinthians 2:3

Bible References

Serving

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

If a man will be my servant, let him follow me; and where I am, there also shall my servant be: and if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.

PAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, set apart for the Gospel of God,

not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord:

For do I now use persuasions from men, or from God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

with good will doing service as to the Lord, and not unto men:

knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye are servants to the Lord Christ.

For they publish concerning you what manner of entrance we had unto you, and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve the living and true God,

SIMON Peter, the servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained with us the same precious faith by 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 sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.

With all

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

not that we are sufficient of ourselves to account any thing of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God.

For when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted on every side; without were fightings; within were fears.

And that I might not be lifted up above measure by the transcendent greatness of the revelations, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, the angel Satan, to buffet me, that I might not be lifted up above measure.

Ye know that with infirmity of flesh I preached to you the gospel at the first.

Many

Therefore watch, remembering that for three years, by night and by day, I have never ceased with tears to admonish every individual.

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

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears, not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly towards you.

For many walk, whom I have often mentioned to you, 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 might be filled with joy;

Temptations

For I think that God hath exposed us his apostles the last as devoted unto death. For we have been made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the transcendent excellence of the power might be of God, and not of us.

Are they the ministers of Christ? (I speak foolishly) I am above [them]: in labours more abundantly, in stripes exceedingly more, in prisons more frequently, in the most immediate danger of death often.

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into various trials;

Wherein ye exult, though yet for a little space, (if it must be so,) ye are in sorrow through various trials:

By the

And after three months stay, as the Jews were lying in wait for him, when he was just embarking for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.

But when many days were fulfilled, the Jews consulted together how to kill him:

Then the Jews stirred up the devout women, and those who were respectable, and the principal persons of the city, and raised up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their borders.

And when there was a strong effort made both by the Gentiles and Jews with their rulers to ill-treat and stone them,

But the unbelieving Jews, roused to a fit of zeal, and taking some of the lowest vulgar men of vile characters, and raising a mob, set the city in an uproar, and besetting the house of Jason, sought them to bring them unto the people.

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

General references

And in weakness, and in fear, and in much timidity, was I among you.