Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Compassion and sympathy » Exercise towards » The weak
Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
Paul » Characteristics of » Self-sacrifice
From the Jews I have five times received forty stripes save one. Thrice I have been beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I have been shipwrecked, and was a night and a day on the deep: in journies often, in perils from rivers, in perils from robbers, in perils from my own nation, in perils from the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren: read more.
in labor and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness: and beside these outward troubles, that which besets me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is infirm, and I am not infirm also? who is offended, and I am not inflamed? If I must boast, I will boast of the things which relate to my infirmity. And the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for ever, knoweth that I lye not. In Damascus the governor under king Aretas, placed guards about the city to seize me: and I was let down by the wall through a window in a basket, and so escaped his hands.
in labor and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness: and beside these outward troubles, that which besets me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is infirm, and I am not infirm also? who is offended, and I am not inflamed? If I must boast, I will boast of the things which relate to my infirmity. And the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for ever, knoweth that I lye not. In Damascus the governor under king Aretas, placed guards about the city to seize me: and I was let down by the wall through a window in a basket, and so escaped his hands.
Solicitude » For the welfare of the church
But I fear least as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the purity that is in Christ.
For I would have you know what a great conflict I have for you, and for those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen me in person:
For through much affliction and distress of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not that ye might be grieved, but that ye might know the love with which I abound towards you.
For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that you may be established:
My little children, of whom I do as it were travail in birth again,