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

If anyone serves me, let them follow me; and where I am, there shall my servant be also; the one that serves me, will my Father honour.

Paul, slave of Jesus, the Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God

not slothful in earnest care, but fervent in the Spirit, serving the Lord,

For do I now persuade men or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the slave of Christ.

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

knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance, for ye serve the Lord Christ.

For they themselves tell of us what an entrance we had unto you and in what manner ye were converted to God from idols to serve the living and true God

Simon Peter, slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those that have obtained like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

Therefore, they are before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple, and he that is seated on the throne shall dwell among them.

With all

For I am the least of the apostles, for I am not worthy to be called an apostle because I persecuted the congregation of God.

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God,

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

And lest the greatness of the revelations should exalt me above measure, there is given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

Ye know how through weakness of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

Many

Therefore watch and remember that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

Rivers of waters ran down my eyes because they did not keep thy law.

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

But if ye will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret because of your pride; and weeping bitterly, my eyes shall be undone in tears because the LORD's flock was carried away captive.

And when he was come near, he beheld the city and 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 how much more charity I have 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;

greatly desiring to see thee (being mindful of thy tears), that I may be filled with joy,

Temptations

For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death; for we are made a spectacle unto the world and to angels and to men.

But we have this treasure in clay vessels that the excellency of the virtue may be of God, and not of us.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more, in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.

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

In which ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are afflicted in diverse temptations,

By the

and there abode three months. And when the Jews laid in wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he took counsel to return through Macedonia.

And as many days passed, the Jews took counsel among themselves to kill him;

But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women and the principals of the city and raised up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them out of their borders.

And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles and also of the Jews with their princes, to insult them and to stone them,

But the disobedient Jews, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort and gathered a company and set all the city on an uproar and assaulted the house of Jason and sought to bring them out to the people.

in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by those of my nation, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

General references

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