Acts 20:19

Paul's Farewell To The Ephesian Elders

¹⁸ And when they came to him, he said to them, You know, that from the first day from which I came unto Asia, how I was with you all the time, ¹⁹ serving the Lord with all humility, and tears, and temptations, which came upon me through the plots of the Jews: ²⁰ how I omitted nothing of those things which are profitable, that I should not declare unto you and teach you publicly and from house to house,

Serve the Lord

To the Lord

Lot

Acts 20:3

and having remained three months, a plot rising against him from the Jews, when about to sail for Syria, he was of a mind to return through Macedonia.

Acts 20:31

Watch therefore, remembering, that three years night and day I ceased not admonishing you with tears.

Romans 12:11

not slothful in business; boiling over in spirit; serving the Lord;

2 Corinthians 2:4

For out of much tribulation and anguish of heart, I wrote to you through many tears; not in order that you may be grieved, but that you may know the divine love which I have unto you exceedingly.

Philippians 3:18

For many walk about, of whom I frequently spoke to you, and now I speak even weeping, the enemies of the cross of Christ:

Colossians 3:24

knowing that you will receive the recompense of the inheritance from the Lord. Serve the Lord Christ;

Luke 19:41

And when He drew near, seeing the city He wept over it,

John 12:26

If any one may minister unto me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall my minister be: if any one may minister unto me, the Father will honor him.

Acts 9:23-25

And when many days were being filled up, the Jews issued a verdict to kill him:

Acts 13:50-51

And the Jews stirred up the noble godly women, and the first men of the city, and they raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their borders.

Acts 14:5-6

And when there was a conspiracy of both Gentiles and Jews along with their leaders, to insult and stone them,

Acts 14:19-20

But the Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the multitudes, stoned Paul, dragged him out of the city, thinking that he was dead;

Acts 17:5

But the Jews giving away to jealousy, and receiving to themselves certain wicked men of those around the forum, and raising a mob, continued to put the city in an uproar; and assaulting the house of Jason, they were seeking to lead them out to the people:

Acts 17:13

but when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that the word of God was preached by Paul in Berea, they came thither also, agitating and stirring up the rabbles.

Acts 27:23

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

Romans 1:1

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called an apostle, having been separated unto the gospel of God,

Romans 1:9

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how I unceasingly make mention of you always in my prayer;

1 Corinthians 4:9-13

For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles the last, as exposed to death: that we may become a theater to the world, and to angels, 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 able of ourselves to think anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

2 Corinthians 4:7-11

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, in order that the excellency of the power, may be of God, and not of us;

2 Corinthians 7:5

For we having come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but in everything being troubled; fightings without, fears within.

2 Corinthians 11:23-30

Are they the ministers of Christ? (I speak as a mad man,) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes more abundantly, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often;

2 Corinthians 12:7-10

And that I may not be exalted by the abundance of revelations, a thorn was given unto me in the flesh, the messenger of Satan that he may buffet me, in order that I may not be exalted.

Galatians 1:10

For must I now believe men, or God? whether do I seek to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I would not be the servant of Christ.

Ephesians 6:7

serving with good will as the Lord, and not men:

1 Thessalonians 1:9

for they proclaim concerning what kind of reception we had unto you; and how you turned to God from the idols, to serve the true and the living God,

2 Timothy 1:4

longing to see you, remembering your tears, in order that I may be filled with joy;

James 1:2

Count it all joy, my brethren, when you may fall into manifold temptations.

1 Peter 1:6

In whom you rejoice, if however it is needful, being grieved a little while among manifold temptations: in order

2 Peter 1:1

Simon Peter, the servant of God and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those receiving like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.

Revelation 7:15

On account of this they are before the throne of God, and they worship him day and night in his temple, and the one sitting upon the throne will spread his tabernacle over them.