Acts 20:24
But I count my life of no value to myself, if only I may complete the course marked out for me, and the task that was allotted me by the Lord Jesus--which was to declare the Good News of the Love of God.
Acts 21:13
It was then that Paul made the reply: "Why are you weeping and breaking my heart like this? For my part, I am ready not only to be bound, but even to suffer death at Jerusalem for the Name of the Lord Jesus."
Acts 1:17
For he was one of our number and had his part allotted him in this work of ours."
Acts 20:21
I earnestly pointed both Jews and Greeks to the repentance that leads to God, and to faith in Jesus, our Lord.
2 Corinthians 4:1
Therefore, since it is by God's mercy that we are engaged in this ministry, we do not lose heart.
Galatians 1:1
To the churches in Galatia, from Paul, an Apostle whose commission is not from men and is given, not by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead;
Titus 1:3
and has revealed at his own time in his Message, with the proclamation of which I was entrusted by the command of God our Savior.
Acts 9:15
But the Lord said to him: "Go, for this man is my chosen instrument to uphold my Name before the Gentiles and their kings, and the people of Israel.
Acts 11:23
On coming there he saw to his great joy these tokens of the loving-kindness of God, and encouraged them all to make up their minds to be faithful to the Lord--
Acts 14:3
Therefore Paul and Barnabas spent a long time there, and spoke out fearlessly, relying upon the Lord, who confirmed the Message of his Love by permitting signs and wonders to take place at their hands.
Acts 20:32
And now I commend you to the Lord and to the Message of his Love--a Message which has the power to build up your characters, and to give you your place among all those who have become Christ's People.
Acts 22:21
But Jesus said to me 'Go; for I will send you to the Gentiles far away'."
Acts 26:17-18
Since I am choosing you out from your own people and from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you,
Romans 3:24-26
But, in his loving-kindness, are being freely pronounced righteous through the deliverance found in Christ Jesus.
Luke 2:10-11
"Have no fear," the angel said. "For I bring you good news of a great joy in store for all the nation.
John 15:27
Yes, and you also are to bear testimony, because you have been with me from the first.
John 17:4
I have honored thee on earth by completing the work which thou has given me to do;
Romans 4:4
Now wages are regarded as due to the man who works, not as a favor, but as a debt;
Romans 5:20-21
Law was introduced in order that offences might be multiplied. But, where sins were multiplied, the loving-kindness of God was lavished the more,
Romans 8:35-39
Who is there to separate us from the love of the Christ? Will trouble, or difficulty, or persecution, or hunger, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword?
Romans 11:6
But if in love, then no longer as a result of obedience. Otherwise love would cease to be love.
1 Corinthians 9:17-18
If I do this work willingly, I have a reward; but, if unwillingly, I have been charged to perform a duty.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
Do not you know that on a race-course, though all run, yet only one wins the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my dear Brothers, stand firm, unshaken, always diligent in the Lord's work, for you know that, in union with him, your toil is not in vain.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
Though hard pressed on every side, we are never hemmed in; through perplexed, never driven to despair;
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
Therefore, as I said, we do not lose heart. No, even though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
2 Corinthians 5:8
And in this confidence we would gladly leave our home in the body, and make our home with the Lord.
2 Corinthians 6:4-10
No, we are trying to commend ourselves under all circumstances, as God's ministers should--in many an hour of endurance, in troubles, in hardships, in difficulties,
2 Corinthians 7:4
I have the utmost confidence in you; I am always boasting about you. I am full of encouragement and, in spite of all our troubles, my heart is overflowing with happiness.
2 Corinthians 12:10
That is why I delight in weakness, ill-treatment, hardship, persecution, and difficulties, when borne for Christ. For, when I am weak, then it is that I am strong!
Ephesians 1:6
And so to enhance that glorious manifestation of his loving- kindness which he gave us in The Beloved;
Ephesians 2:4-10
Yet God, in his abundant compassion, and because of the great love with which he loved us,
Ephesians 3:13
Therefore I beg you not to be disheartened at the sufferings that I am undergoing for your sakes; for they redound to your honor.
Philippians 1:20-23
And this will fulfil my earnest expectation and hope that I shall have no cause for shame, but that, with unfailing courage, now as hitherto, Christ will be honored in my body, whether by my life or by my death,
Philippians 2:17
And yet, even if, when your faith is offered as a sacrifice to God, my life-blood must be poured out in addition, still I shall rejoice and share the joy of you all;
Philippians 3:13-15
For I, Brothers, do not regard myself as having yet laid hold of it. But this one thing I do--forgetting what lies behind, and straining every nerve for that which lies in front,
Colossians 1:24
Now at last I can rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf, and in my own person I supplement the afflictions endured by the Christ, for the sake of his Body, the Church;
1 Thessalonians 2:2
For, although we had experienced suffering and ill-treatment, as you know, at Philippi, we had the courage, by the help of our God, to tell you God's Good News in spite of great opposition.
1 Thessalonians 3:3
So that none of you should be shaken by the troubles through which you are passing. You yourselves know that we are destined to meet with such things.
2 Timothy 1:12
That is why I am undergoing these sufferings; yet I feel no shame, for I know in whom I have put my faith, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until 'That Day.'
2 Timothy 3:11
as well as of my persecutions, and of the sufferings which I met with at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. You know what persecutions I underwent; and yet the Lord brought me safe out of all!
2 Timothy 4:6-8
As for me, my life blood is already being poured out; the time of my departure is close at hand.
2 Timothy 4:17
But the Lord came to my help and strengthened me, in order that, through me, the proclamation should be made so widely that all the Gentiles should hear it; and I was rescued 'out of the Lion's mouth.'
Titus 2:11
For the loving-kindness of God has been revealed, bringing Salvation for all;
Titus 3:4-7
But, when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for man were revealed, he saved us,
Hebrews 2:3-4
how can we, of all people, expect to escape, if we disregard so great a Salvation? It was the Master who at the outset spoke of this Salvation, and its authority was confirmed for us by those who heard him,
Hebrews 10:34
For you not only sympathized with those who were in prison, but you even took the confiscation of your possessions joyfully, knowing, as you did, that you had in yourselves a greater possession and a lasting one.
Hebrews 12:1-3
Seeing, therefore, that there is on every side of us such a throng of witnesses, let us also lay aside everything that hinders us, and the sin that clings about us, and run with patient endurance the race that lies before us,
1 Peter 5:12
I have been writing to you briefly by the hand of Silas, our true-hearted Brother (for so I regard him), to urge upon you, and to bear my testimony, that in what I have written is to be found the true love of God. On that take your stand.
1 John 3:16
We have learned to know what love is from this--that Christ laid down his life on our behalf. Therefore we also ought to lay down our lives on behalf of our Brothers.
Revelation 12:11
Their victory was due to the Blood of the Lamb, and to the Message to which they bore their testimony. In their love of life they shrank not from death.