Acts 20:24
But my life does not matter, if I can only finish my race and do the service intrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of declaring the good news of God's favor.
Acts 21:13
Then Paul answered, "What do you mean by crying and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound at Jerusalem but to die there for the sake of the Lord Jesus."
Acts 20:21
but earnestly urged Greeks as well as Jews to turn to God in repentance and to believe in our Lord Jesus.
2 Corinthians 4:1
So since by the mercy of God I am engaged in this service, I never lose heart.
Galatians 1:1
Paul, an apostle not from men nor sent by any man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead??2 and all the brothers who are here with me, to the churches of Galatia;
Titus 1:3
and revealed at the proper time in his message, through the preaching with which I have been intrusted at the command of God our Savior,
Acts 9:15
The Lord said to him, "Go! This man is the means I have chosen for carrying my name among the heathen and their kings, and among the descendants of Israel.
Acts 11:23
When he reached there and saw the favor God had shown them, he was delighted, and encouraged them all to be resolute and steadfast in their devotion to the Lord,
Acts 14:3
They spent some time there, speaking fearlessly and relying upon the Lord, who bore witness to his gracious message by letting signs and wonders be done by them.
Acts 20:32
Now I commit you to the Lord, and to the message of his favor, which will build you up and give you a place among those whom God has consecrated.
Acts 22:21
But he said to me, 'Go! I will send you far away to the heathen.' "
Acts 26:17-18
I will save you from your people and from the heathen, to whom I will send you
Romans 3:24-26
but by his mercy they are made upright for nothing, by the deliverance secured through Christ Jesus.
Luke 2:10-11
The angel said to them, "Do not be frightened, for I bring you good news of a great joy that is to be felt by all the people,
John 15:27
and you must bear testimony too, because you have been with me from the first.
John 17:4
I have done honor to you here on earth, by completing the work which you gave me to do.
Romans 4:4
Now paying a workman is not considered a favor, but an obligation,
Romans 5:20-21
Then law slipped in, and multiplied the offense. But greatly as sin multiplied, God's mercy has far surpassed it,
Romans 8:35-39
Who can separate us from Christ's love? Can trouble or misfortune or persecution or hunger or destitution or danger or the sword?
Romans 11:6
But if it is by his mercy, it is not for anything they have done. Otherwise, his mercy would not be mercy at all.
1 Corinthians 9:17-18
For if I do it of my own accord, I have my pay, but if I do it because I must, it is still a responsibility that I am charged with.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one wins the prize? That is the way you must run, so as to win.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
I am hard pressed on every side, but never cut off: perplexed, but not driven to despair;
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
So I never lose heart. Though my outer nature is wasting away, my inner is being renewed every day.
2 Corinthians 6:4-10
On the contrary, as a servant of God I try in every way to commend myself to them, through my great endurance in troubles, difficulties, hardships,
2 Corinthians 7:4
I have the greatest confidence in you. I take the greatest pride in you. I am fully comforted. After all my trouble, I am overjoyed.
2 Corinthians 12:10
That is why I am pleased with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties, when they are endured for Christ's sake, for it is when I am weak that I am strong.
Ephesians 1:6
so that we might praise the splendid blessing which he has given us through his beloved Son.
Ephesians 2:4-10
But God is so rich in mercy that because of the great love he had for us,
Ephesians 3:13
So I ask that what I am having to suffer for your sake may not make me lose heart, for it does you honor.
Philippians 1:20-23
for I eagerly and confidently hope that I shall never disgrace myself but that this time as always hitherto, living or dying, I shall do Christ credit by my unfailing courage.
Philippians 2:17
Even if my life is to be poured out as a libation as you offer your faith in a service of sacrifice to God, I am glad to have it so, and I congratulate you upon it,
Philippians 3:13-15
Brothers, I do not consider that I have captured it yet, only, forgetting what is behind me, and straining toward what lies ahead,
Colossians 1:24
At present I am glad to be suffering in your interest, and I am making up in my own person what is lacking in Christ's sufferings for the church, which is his body.
1 Thessalonians 2:2
We had just been through ill-treatment and insults at Philippi, as you remember, but, in the face of great opposition, we took courage by the help of our God, and told you God's good news.
1 Thessalonians 3:3
and encourage you not to be led astray, any of you, in all these troubles. You know yourselves that this is what we must expect,
2 Timothy 1:12
This is why I am suffering as I am, but I am not ashamed of it, for I know whom I have trusted and I am sure that he is able to guard what I have intrusted to him for that Day.
2 Timothy 3:11
my persecutions, my sufferings??he things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra, the persecutions I endured; yet the Lord brought me safely out of them all.
2 Timothy 4:6-8
My life is already being poured out, and the time has come for my departure.
2 Timothy 4:17
But the Lord stood by me, and gave me strength, so that I might make a full presentation of the message and let all the heathen hear it. So I was saved from the jaws of the lion.
Titus 2:11
For God's mercy has appeared and brought salvation to all men,
Titus 3:4-7
But when the goodness and kindness of God our Savior were revealed,
Hebrews 2:3-4
how can we escape if we pay no attention to such a salvation as this? It was first proclaimed by the Lord himself, and it was guaranteed to us by those who heard him,
Hebrews 10:34
For you showed sympathy with those who were in prison, and you put up with it cheerfully when your property was taken from you, for you knew that you had in yourselves a greater possession that was lasting.
Hebrews 12:1-3
Therefore, let us too, with such a crowd of witnesses about us, throw off every impediment and the entanglement of sin, and run with determination the race for which we are entered,
1 Peter 5:12
By Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I think him, I have written you this short letter to encourage you and bear my testimony that this is what the true mercy of God means. Stand fast in it.
1 John 3:16
We know what love means from the fact that he laid down his life for us; so we also ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
Revelation 12:11
They have conquered him because of the Lamb's blood, and the message to which they bore testimony, for they did not cling to life even in the face of death.