Acts 21:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

To weep

Acts 20:37

Philippians 2:26

2 Timothy 1:4

For

General references

Matthew 26:46

Philippians 1:13

Bible References

To weep

And they all wept much, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him,

because he longed after you all, and was much distressed, because you had heard that he was sick.

greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears, that I may be filled with joy;

For

But I esteem this a matter of no importance, nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry that I have received from the Lord Jesus, to bear full testimony to the gospel of the grace of God.

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

I protest, by the joy which I have over you in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

always bearing about in our body the violent death of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our body.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I say it foolishly,) I am above them. In labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be ashamed, but with all boldness, as at all times, so even now, Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

But if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

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

Every one that serves as a soldier keeps himself free from the business of this life, that he may please him that has chosen him to be a soldier.

For I am now ready to be poured out, and the time of my departure is at hand.

For I know that the putting off of this my tabernacle is near at hand, even as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me.

Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from the hour of trial that is about to come on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.

And they over came him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives even to death.

General references

Arise, let us go; behold, he that delivers me up is at hand.

so that my bonds which are for Christ have become known to be such in all the palace, and in all other places;