Acts 20:24

Worsley

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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I might

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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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But Paul answered, What do ye mean, weeping and breaking my heart? for I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall affliction, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, since ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Therefore having received this ministry, as we have obtained mercy, we are not disheartened:

but in every thing approving ourselves as the ministers of God; by much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits,

I use much freedom of speech to you, and I boast much of you: I am filled with comfort, and superabound in joy above all our affliction.

And therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, and in straits for the sake of Christ: for when I am thus weak, then am I made strong.

Wherefore I desire that ye would not be discouraged at my afflictions on your account, which is your glory.

But though we had suffered before and been injuriously treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we spake boldly in the name of our God to declare unto you the gospel of God with much conflict.

that no one might be shaken by these afflictions: for ye yourselves know that we are appointed hereunto.

for which cause also I suffer these things; but I am not ashamed: for I know in whom I have trusted, and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him against that day.

sufferings, which befel me at Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and how the Lord delivered me out of them all.

But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that by me the gospel might be fully spread, and that all the nations might hear: and so I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

for ye sympathized with me in my bonds, and ye took joyfully the plundering of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.

Having therefore so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every incumbrance, and the sin that easily besets us, and run with patience the race that is set before us,

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and well-pleased rather to be absent from the body, and to dwell with the Lord.

According to my earnest expectation and hope, that I shall be put to shame in nothing; but that with all freedom of speech, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

But if I be even poured forth as a libation on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and congratulate with you all.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up what is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for the sake of his body, which is the church.

In this we know his love, that He laid down his life for us: and we should be ready to lay down our lives for the brethren.

And they have overcome him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony, and they loved not their life unto the death.

I might

I have glorified Thee on earth, I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do:

Know ye not, that those, who run in a race, do all indeed run, but one only receiveth the prize? So run that ye may obtain.

Brethren, I count not myself to have attained it: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to those before,

For I am now going to be sacrificed, and the time of my dissolution is near.

And the

for he was numbered with us, and had obtained a part of this ministry.

But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way, for he is the instrument I have chosen, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:

But he said unto me, Go away; for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.---

delivering thee from the people and from the Gentiles, to whom I now send thee,

Now if I do this willingly, I have a reward; and if unwillingly, yet I am intrusted with the commission, and I must execute it.

Therefore having received this ministry, as we have obtained mercy, we are not disheartened:

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

and hath in his own times manifested his word, by the preaching, with which I was intrusted according to the commandment of God our Saviour:

To testify

testifying both to the Jews and Greeks, repentance towards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.

how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? which began to be declared by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by them that heard Him;

General references

for he that would save his life shall lose it; but he that would lose his life for my sake shall find it.

for he that would save his life shall lose it, but he that would lose his life for my sake shall save it.

so that my bonds are manifest in all the palace, and all other places, to be for the sake of Christ;