Acts 20:19

Paul's Farewell To The Ephesian Elders

¹⁸ And when they were come unto him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the very first day in which I entered into Asia, how I have been among you at every season, ¹⁹ serving the Lord with all humility, and with many tears and trials, which have befallen me through the lying in wait of the Jews: ²⁰ and that I have suppressed nothing which could conduce to your profiting; not desisting from preaching to you, and teaching you in public, and from house to house,

Serve the Lord

To the Lord

Lot

Acts 20:3

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.

Acts 20:31

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

Romans 12:11

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

2 Corinthians 2:4

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.

Philippians 3:18

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:

Colossians 3:24

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

Luke 19:41

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

John 12:26

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.

Acts 9:23-25

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

Acts 13:50-51

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.

Acts 14:5-6

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

Acts 14:19-20

Then came the Jews from Antioch and Iconium, and gaining over the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.

Acts 17:5

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.

Acts 17:13

But when the Jews of Thessalonica knew that at Berea also the word of God was preached by Paul, they came thither, and stirred up the populace.

Acts 27:23

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

Romans 1:1

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

Romans 1:9

For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the Gospel of his Son, how incessantly I make mention of you,

1 Corinthians 4:9-13

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.

1 Corinthians 15:9-10

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

2 Corinthians 3:5

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

2 Corinthians 4:7-11

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

2 Corinthians 7:5

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.

2 Corinthians 11:23-30

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.

2 Corinthians 12:7-10

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.

Galatians 1:10

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.

Galatians 4:13-14

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

Ephesians 6:7

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

1 Thessalonians 1:9

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,

2 Timothy 1:4

earnestly desiring to see thee, remembering thy tears, that I might be filled with joy;

James 1:2

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

1 Peter 1:6

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

2 Peter 1:1

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:

Revelation 7:15

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.