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 last night an angel of the God I belong to and serve, stood before me,

If anyone serves me, let him follow me, and where I am, there shall my servant be also: if anyone serves me, my Father will honour him.

PAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God

never let your zeal flag; maintain the spiritual glow; serve the Lord;

Now is that 'appealing to the interests of men' or of God? Trying to 'satisfy men'? Why, if I still tried to give satisfaction to human masters, I would be no servant of Christ.

by rendering service with goodwill as to the Lord and Master, not to men.

remember, you will receive from the Lord the inheritance which is your due; serve Christ your Lord and Master,

People tell us of their own accord about the visit we paid to you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and a real God

Symeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have been allotted a faith of equal privilege with ours, by the equity of our God and saviour Jesus Christ:

For this they are now before the throne of God, serving him day and night within his temple. and he who is seated on the throne shall overshadow them.

With all

For I am the very least of the apostles, unfit to bear the name of apostle, since I persecuted the church of God.

It is not that I am personally qualified to form any judgment by myself; my qualifications come from God,

For I got no relief from the strain of things, even when I reached Macedonia; it was trouble at every turn, wrangling all round me, fears in my own mind.

My wealth of visions might have puffed me up, so I was given a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan to rack me and keep me from being puffed up;

no, although it was because of an illness (you know) that I preached the gospel to you on my former visit,

Many

So be on the alert, remember how for three whole years I never ceased night and day to watch over each one of you with tears.

And when he saw the city, as he approached, he wept over it,

For I wrote you in sore distress and misery of heart, with many a tear ??not to pain you but to convince you of my love, my special love for you.

For many ??as I have often told you and tell you now with tears ??many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

When I recall the tears you shed when we parted, I long by night and day to see you again. That would fill me with joy,

Temptations

For it seems to me that God means us apostles to come in at the very end, like the doomed gladiators in the arena! We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men!

But I possess this treasure in a frail vessel of earth, to show that the transcending power belongs to God, not to myself;

Ministers of Christ? yes perhaps, but not as much as I am (I am mad to talk like this!), with all my labours, with all my lashes, with all my time in prison ??a record longer far than theirs. I have been often at the point of death;

Greet it as pure joy, my brothers, when you come across any sort of trial,

You will rejoice then, though for the passing moment you may need to suffer various trials;

By the

where he spent three months. Just as he was on the point of sailing for Syria, the Jews laid a plot against him. He therefore resolved to return through Macedonia.

and the Jews, after a number of days had elapsed, conspired to make away with him.

But the Jews incited the devout women of high rank and the leading men in the town, who stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their territory.

But, when the Gentiles and Jews along with their rulers made a hostile movement to insult and stone them,

But the Jews were aroused to jealousy; they got hold of some idle rascals to form a mob and set the town in an uproar; they attacked Jason's house in the endeavour to bring them out before the populace,

I have been often on my travels, I have been in danger from rivers and robbers, in danger from Jews and Gentiles, through dangers of town and of desert, through dangers on the sea, through dangers among false brothers ??27 through labour and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, starving many a time, cold and ill-clad, and all the rest of it.

General references

It was in weakness and fear and with great trembling that I visited you;