Acts 20:24
I do not consider my life of any account. It is not dear to me so that I may finish the race, and I may accomplish the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to preach the good news of the grace of God.
Acts 21:13
Why do you weep and break my heart? Paul answered: 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
He was numbered among us, and shared in this ministry.
Acts 20:21
I witnessed to both Jews and to Greeks about repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:1
We have this ministry to do, even as we obtained mercy, we do not lose heart.
Galatians 1:1
From Paul, who is an apostle not from men nor through men but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead.
Titus 1:3
In his own time he made his word known through the message that was entrusted to me according to the commandment of God our Savior.
Acts 9:15
The Lord said to him: Be on your way. This man is a chosen vessel to bear my name to the people of the nations, and kings and the children of Israel.
Acts 11:23
When he arrived he saw the grace of God and was glad. He exhorted them all to remain true to the Lord as their only purpose of heart.
Acts 14:3
The apostles stayed there for a long time. They spoke boldly by the authority of God who proved that their message about his grace was true by giving them the power to perform miracles and wonders.
Acts 20:32
Now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace. This is able to build you up, and to give you the inheritance among all them that are sanctified.
Acts 22:21
The Lord said: 'Go! I will send you far away to the people of the nations.'
Acts 26:17-18
I will rescue you from the people and the nations. I am sending you to them.
Romans 3:24-26
being justified freely by his grace (as a gift) through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Luke 2:10-11
The angel spoke to them: Do not be afraid. Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy to all the people.
John 15:27
You also bear witness because you have been with me from the beginning.
John 17:4
I glorified you on the earth. I accomplished the work you gave me to do.
Romans 4:4
The pay is counted to the man who works. It is not as grace but as a debt.
Romans 5:20-21
The law came that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased God's loving kindness increased even more.
Romans 8:35-39
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Romans 11:6
If it is by grace then it is no longer on the basis of works. Otherwise grace is not grace (undeserved kindness). But if it is of works then it is not by grace. Otherwise works are no longer works.
1 Corinthians 9:17-18
For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward. But if I do it against my will, I am just performing the trust of the good news committed to me.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
Do you not know that they who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain the prize.
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and unmovable. Always have plenty to do in the work of the Lord, for you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are pressed (afflicted) (troubled) on every side, but not crushed. We are perplexed yet not to despair.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
We do not give up! Though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
2 Corinthians 5:8
We are of good courage, I say, and are willing to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
2 Corinthians 6:4-10
In everything we commend ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
2 Corinthians 7:4
Great is my confidence in you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in our entire affliction.
2 Corinthians 12:10
Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then I am strong.
Ephesians 1:6
This is to the praise of the glory of his kindness, with which he freely honored us, the loved ones.
Ephesians 2:4-10
But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,
Ephesians 3:13
So I ask you not to lose heart at my tribulations for you, for they are your glory.
Philippians 1:20-23
I will not be put to shame according to my earnest expectation and hope. With all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in me, whether by life or by death.
Philippians 2:17
If I am offered for the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice with you all.
Philippians 3:13-15
Brothers, I could not yet have obtained it. But one thing I do, I forget the things that are behind, and stretch forward to the things that are ahead.
Colossians 1:24
I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake. I do my share in behalf of his body, the congregation, to provide what is lacking of the afflictions of Christ.
1 Thessalonians 2:2
After we suffered and were mistreated in Philippi, we had the boldness (confidence) in our God to speak the good news of God to you amid much opposition.
1 Thessalonians 3:3
We do not want anyone to be discouraged by these troubles. You know we were bound to suffer persecution.
2 Timothy 1:12
It is for this reason that I suffer these things. But I am still full of confidence, because I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to keep safe until that day what he has entrusted to me.
2 Timothy 3:11
and also persecutions and sufferings. The things that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured. Out of them the Lord delivered me.
2 Timothy 4:6-8
I am already being offered (poured out as an offering), and the time of my departure has come.
2 Timothy 4:17
But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the people of the nations might hear. I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion (Satan the Devil) (great danger) (1 Peter 5:8) (Psalm 22:21) (1 Thessalonians 2:18).
Titus 2:11
For the grace (divine influence) of God has been revealed, bringing salvation to all men,
Titus 3:4-7
When the kindness of God our Savior, and his love toward man, appeared,
Hebrews 2:3-4
How shall we escape, if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first presented by the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him.
Hebrews 10:34
You shared the sufferings of prisoners. When all your belongings were seized, you endured your loss gladly. This is because you knew that you possessed something much better, which would last forever.
Hebrews 12:1-3
A great cloud of witnesses surround us. Therefore let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that easily entangles us. Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.
1 Peter 5:12
By Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I account him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God. Stand fast.
1 John 3:16
By this we know love, because he (Jesus) gave his life for us. We ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
Revelation 12:11
They conquered (overcame) him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they did not love their lives when faced with death.