Acts 20:24
But I hold not my life of any account, as dear unto myself, if only I may run my race, and accomplish the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to attest the gospel of the grace of God.
Acts 21:13
"What do you mean by thus breaking my heart with your grief?" answered Paul. "For I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus."
Acts 1:17
"For he was numbered among us, and he did get his allotted share of this ministry.
Acts 20:21
testifying both to Jews and Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:1
So then, as I have this ministry because of God's mercy to me, I do not lose heart.
Galatians 1:1
Paul, an apostle sent not from men nor by any man, but by Jesus Christ and by God the Father who raised him from the dead;
Titus 1:3
but manifested in his own time; that word of his in proclaiming which I have been entrusted by command of God our Saviour.
Acts 9:15
"Go," answered the Lord, "this man is chosen instrument of mine to bear my name before the nations and their kings, and before the Children of Israel also;
Acts 11:23
When he arrived, and saw the grace of God, he was glad, and he encouraged them all to remain faithful to the Lord, with full purpose of heart;
Acts 14:3
Long time, therefore, they tarried there, speaking fearlessly in the Lord, who attested the word of his grace by permitting signs and wonders to be performed by their hands.
Acts 20:32
"And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace. He is able to build you up, and to give you your inheritance among all those who are consecrated.
Acts 22:21
"'Depart,' he said to me, 'for I will send you forth, far hence, to the Gentiles.'"
Acts 26:17-18
"'I will deliver you from the Jewish people, and from the Gentiles to whom I am sending you to open their eyes
Romans 3:24-26
but they are now being justified by his free grace through the deliverance that is in Christ Jesus.
Luke 2:10-11
"Have no fear, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be for all the people.
John 15:27
"and you to shall bear witness because you have been with me from the first.
John 17:4
I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
Romans 4:4
Now if a man earn his pay by his work, it is not counted to him as a favor, but it is paid him as a debt;
Romans 5:20-21
Now law was brought in so that transgression might abound; but where sin abounded, grace super-abounded;
Romans 8:35-39
What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall anguish, or calamity, or persecution, or famine? Shall nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Romans 11:6
But if it is by grace, it is no longer of works; or else grace is no more grace.
1 Corinthians 9:17-18
For if I do this of my own accord, I have my pay; but if unwilling, I have at least discharged my stewardship.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
Do you not know that in a foot-race, though all run, only one receives the prize? So run that you may win.
1 Corinthians 15:58
So, my brothers beloved, stand firm, immovable, always abounding in work for the Lord, because you know that your toil is not fruitless in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
On every side I am hard pressed, yet not hemmed in; perplexed, but not in despair;
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
For this reason, as I have said, I do not lose courage, but even though my outward man is wasting away, my inward man is being renewed, day by day.
2 Corinthians 5:8
So I have good courage, and am well pleased rather, to be in banishment from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
2 Corinthians 6:4-10
but in every way I am striving to commend myself as God's minister by stedfast endurance, by afflictions, by troubles, by distresses,
2 Corinthians 7:4
Great is my faith in you; great is my cheerful assurance in you. I am filled with comfort; in spite of all my troubles, my heart is overflowing with joy.
2 Corinthians 12:10
Most gladly therefore will I boast rather of my weakness, that over me like a tent may be pitched the power of Christ. That is why I rejoice in weakness, in ill-treatment, in troubles, in persecutions and calamities for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
Ephesians 1:6
and to the praise of his glorious grace which he graciously bestowed upon us in the Beloved.
Ephesians 2:4-10
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,
Ephesians 3:13
So I beg you not to lose heart over my tribulations in your behalf; they are your glory.
Philippians 1:20-23
So it is my keen expectation and hope that I shall never feel ashamed, but that with fearless courage, now as hither to, Christ may be magnified in my body, whether by my life or by my death.
Philippians 2:17
Nay, even if my life is to be poured out as a libation upon the sacrifice and service of you faith,
Philippians 3:13-15
Brothers, I do not regard myself to have yet laid hold of it; but this one thing I do, forgetting what is behind me, but straining every nerve toward that which lies ahead,
Colossians 1:24
I am now rejoicing in my sufferings on your behalf; and I am filling up in my own body what is yet lacking of the sufferings of Christ in behalf of the church, his Body.
1 Thessalonians 2:2
for you remember that although I had already borne ill-treatment and insult at Philippi, I took courage in my God to tell you the gospel of God, in the face of much opposition.
1 Thessalonians 3:3
So that no one should be shaken by these troubles??or you know well that we are appointed to troubles.
2 Timothy 1:12
But I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have fully believed, and I am thoroughly persuaded that he is able to keep what I have given him until the Day.
2 Timothy 3:11
as well as the persecutions and sufferings which befell me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. You know all the persecutions I endured, and how the Lord delivered me out of them all!
2 Timothy 4:6-8
I for my part am a libation already being poured in sacrifice; and the time of my unmooring is at hand.
2 Timothy 4:17
Nevertheless the Lord Jesus stood by me, and strengthened my heart, that through me full proclamation of the gospel might be made, and the Gentiles might hear it; and I was rescued from the lion's jaws.
Titus 2:11
"For God's grace has shined forth bringing salvation to all men
Titus 3:4-7
But when the kindness of God our Saviour, And his love toward men shined forth,
Hebrews 2:3-4
Which having begun to be spoken by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him;
Hebrews 10:34
For you did sympathize with the prisoners, and you did take joyfully the confiscation of your goods; conscious that you had for yourselves greater, even lasting possessions.
Hebrews 12:1-3
Seeing then that we are encircled with this great cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and the sin that clings about us. Let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
1 Peter 5:12
By Sylvanus, a faithful brother of yours, as I suppose, I have written you briefly, to comfort you, and to testify that this is the true grace of God. In this stand fast.
1 John 3:16
By this we learn to know love, because he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
Revelation 12:11
And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb, And by the word of their testimony; And they loved not their life, even unto death.