Acts 20:24

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Acts 20:24

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Summary

But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

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Acts 20:21

John 15:27

Hebrews 2:3

General references

Matthew 16:25

Luke 9:24

Philippians 1:13

Bible References

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Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but even to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.

Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we received mercy, we do not lose heart,

but in everything commending ourselves as

servants of God, in much endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

Great is my confidence in you; great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction.

Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

Therefore I ask you not to lose heart at my tribulations on your behalf, for they are your glory.

but after we had already suffered and been mistreated in Philippi, as you know, we had the boldness in our God to speak to you the gospel of God amid much

opposition.

so that no one would be disturbed by these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we have been destined for this.

For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.

persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me!

But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that through me the proclamation might be fully accomplished, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was rescued out of the lion’s mouth.

For you showed sympathy to the prisoners and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and a lasting one.

Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

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we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will not be put to shame in anything, but that with all boldness, Christ will even now, as always, be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.

But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I do my share on behalf of His body, which is the church, in filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions.

We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even when faced with death.

I might

I glorified You on the earth,

having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.

Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.

Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,

For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come.

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For he was counted among us and received his share in this ministry.”

But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen instrument of Mine, to bear My name before the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel;

And He said to me, ‘Go! For I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”

rescuing you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you,

For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we received mercy, we do not lose heart,

Paul, an apostle (not sent from men nor through the agency of man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead),

but at the proper time manifested, even His word, in the proclamation with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior,

To testify

solemnly testifying to both Jews and Greeks of repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

and you will testify also, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? After it was at the first spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard,

General references

For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it.

so that my

imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known throughout the whole praetorian guard and to everyone else,