Acts 20:24

MNT

Acts 20:24

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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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To testify

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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"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."

What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall anguish, or calamity, or persecution, or famine? Shall nakedness, or peril, or sword?

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.

So then, as I have this ministry because of God's mercy to me, I do not lose heart.

but in every way I am striving to commend myself as God's minister by stedfast endurance, by afflictions, by troubles, by distresses,

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.

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.

So I beg you not to lose heart over my tribulations in your behalf; they are your glory.

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.

So that no one should be shaken by these troubles??or you know well that we are appointed to troubles.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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,

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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.

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.

Nay, even if my life is to be poured out as a libation upon the sacrifice and service of you faith,

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.

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.

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.

I might

I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

Do you not know that in a foot-race, though all run, only one receives the prize? So run that you may win.

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,

I for my part am a libation already being poured in sacrifice; and the time of my unmooring is at hand.

And the

"For he was numbered among us, and he did get his allotted share of this ministry.

"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;

"'Depart,' he said to me, 'for I will send you forth, far hence, to the Gentiles.'"

"'I will deliver you from the Jewish people, and from the Gentiles to whom I am sending you to open their eyes

For if I do this of my own accord, I have my pay; but if unwilling, I have at least discharged my stewardship.

So then, as I have this ministry because of God's mercy to me, I do not lose heart.

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;

but manifested in his own time; that word of his in proclaiming which I have been entrusted by command of God our Saviour.

To testify

testifying both to Jews and Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

"and you to shall bear witness because you have been with me from the first.

Which having begun to be spoken by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him;

General references

For he who wants to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

"For whoever wills to save his life shall lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake shall save it.

Throughout the whole Praetorian guard and among all the others it has become plain that these chains of mine are for the sake of Christ;