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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.

Bible References

What

1 Samuel 15:14
Samuel replied, "If that is the case, then what is this sound of sheep in my ears and the sound of cattle that I hear?"
Isaiah 3:15
Why do you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor?" The sovereign Lord who commands armies has spoken.
Ezekiel 18:2
"What do you mean by quoting this proverb concerning the land of Israel, "'The fathers eat sour grapes And the children's teeth become numb?'
Jonah 1:6
The ship's captain approached him and said, "What are you doing asleep? Get up! Cry out to your god! Perhaps your god might take notice of us so that we might not die!"

To weep

Acts 20:37
They all began to weep loudly, and hugged Paul and kissed him,
1 Samuel 1:8
Finally her husband Elkanah said to her, "Hannah, why do you weep and not eat? Why are you so sad? Am I not better to you than ten sons?"
Philippians 2:26
Indeed, he greatly missed all of you and was distressed because you heard that he had been ill.
2 Timothy 1:4
As I remember your tears, I long to see you, so that I may be filled with joy.

For

Acts 20:24
But I do not consider my life worth anything to myself, so that I may finish my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God's grace.
Romans 8:35
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
1 Corinthians 15:31
Every day I am in danger of death! This is as sure as my boasting in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.
2 Corinthians 4:10
always carrying around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our body.
2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.
Philippians 1:20
My confident hope is that I will in no way be ashamed but that with complete boldness, even now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body, whether I live or die.
Philippians 2:17
But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice together with all of you.
Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body -- for the sake of his body, the church -- what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.
2 Timothy 2:4
No one in military service gets entangled in matters of everyday life; otherwise he will not please the one who recruited him.
2 Timothy 4:6
For I am already being poured out as an offering, and the time for me to depart is at hand.
2 Peter 1:14
since I know that my tabernacle will soon be removed, because our Lord Jesus Christ revealed this to me.
Revelation 3:10
Because you have kept my admonition to endure steadfastly, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come on the whole world to test those who live on the earth.
Revelation 12:11
But they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die.

General references

Ezekiel 3:25
As for you, son of man, they will put ropes on you and tie you up with them, so you cannot go out among them.
Matthew 26:46
Get up, let us go. Look! My betrayer is approaching!"
Philippians 1:13
The whole imperial guard and everyone else knows that I am in prison for the sake of Christ,

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