Acts 20:19

Paul's Farewell To The Ephesian Elders

¹⁸ And when they came to him, he said to them, Ye know, from the first day in which I stepped in Asia, how I became with you all the time, ¹⁹ serving the Lord with all humility, and many tears and trials that befell me by the conspiracies of the Jews. ²⁰ How I kept back nothing of these things that are beneficial, not to inform you, and to teach you in public, and from house to house,

Serve the Lord

To the Lord

Lot

Acts 20:3

And having spent three months there, and a conspiracy having developed against him by Jews, intending to go up into Syria, a decision developed to return through Macedonia.

Acts 20:31

Therefore watch ye, remembering that for three years, night and day, I did not cease warning each one with tears.

Romans 12:11

not lazy in diligence, being fervent in the Spirit serving the Lord,

2 Corinthians 2:4

For out of much stress and dismay of heart, through many tears, I wrote to you, not that ye would be grieved, but that ye might know the love that I have so much more for you.

Philippians 3:18

For many walk, who (I told you often, and now also say while weeping) are enemies of the cross of Christ,

Colossians 3:24

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

Psalm 119:136

Streams of water run down my eyes, because they do not observe thy law.

Jeremiah 9:1

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!

Jeremiah 13:17

But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for [your] pride. And my eye shall weep greatly, and run down with tears, because LORD's flock is taken captive.

Luke 19:41

And when he came near, having seen the city, he wept over it,

John 12:26

If any man serves me, let him follow me, and where I am, there my helper will also be. And if any man serves me, the Father will value him.

Acts 9:23-25

And after considerable days were fulfilled, the Jews plotted to destroy him,

Acts 13:50-51

But the Jews incited the religious women, and the prominent women, and the principle men of the city, and raised up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas. And they threw them out of their boundaries.

Acts 14:5-6

And as a violent movement developed, both of the Gentiles and of the Jews, with their rulers, to denounce and to stone them,

Acts 14:19-20

But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium. And having persuaded the crowds, and having stoned Paul, they dragged him out of the city, after presuming him to be dead.

Acts 17:5

But the disobedient Jews having taken along certain evil men of the marketplaces, and having gathered a mob, were rioting the city. And having stood by the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the populace.

Acts 17:13

But when the Jews of Thessalonica also learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Berea, they came there also, agitating the crowds.

Acts 27:23

For there stood by me this night an agent of the God whose I am, whom also I serve,

Romans 1:1

Paul, a bondman of Jesus Christ, a called apostle separated for the good-news of God

Romans 1:9

For God is my witness whom I serve in my spirit in the good-news of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

1 Corinthians 4:9-13

For I think God has exhibited us the apostles least, as men sentenced to die, because we became a spectacle to the world, both to heavenly agents and to men.

1 Corinthians 15:9-10

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

2 Corinthians 3:5

not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,

2 Corinthians 4:7-11

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

2 Corinthians 7:5

For even when we came into Macedonia our flesh had not one relief, but being oppressed in everything: battles outside, fears within.

2 Corinthians 11:23-30

Are they helpers of Christ? (I speak as being mad) I more: in toils, more abundantly; in stripes, countless; in prisons, more frequently; in deaths often.

2 Corinthians 12:7-10

And so that I might not be over exalted by the extraordinariness of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, an agent of Satan so that he would buffet me, so that I would not be over exalted.

Galatians 1:10

For do I now trust men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I were still pleasing men I would not be a bondman of Christ.

Galatians 4:13-14

But ye know that through a weakness of the flesh I preached the good-news to you the first time.

Ephesians 6:7

bond-serving with goodwill, as to the Lord and not to men.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For they report about us what kind of entrance we had with you, and how ye turned to God from the idols to serve a living and TRUE God,

2 Timothy 1:4

longing to see thee, having remembered thy tears, so that I may be filled with joy,

James 1:2

Consider it all joy, my brothers, when ye encounter various trials,

1 Peter 1:6

In which ye greatly rejoice, although made sorrowful in various trials. Since it is now necessary for a little while,

2 Peter 1:1

Simon Peter, a bondman and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received an equally precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

Revelation 7:15

Because of this they are before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple. And he who sits on the throne will dwell among them.