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2 Corinthians 6 4-2 Corinthians 6 5
But as God’s ministers, we commend ourselves in everything: by great endurance, by afflictions, by hardship, by difficulties,by beatings, by imprisonments, by riots, by labors, by sleepless nights, by times of hunger,
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1 Corinthians 15 10
But by God’s grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective. However, I worked more than any of them, yet not I, but God’s grace that was with me.
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2 Corinthians 1 9-2 Corinthians 1 10
Indeed, we personally had a death sentence within ourselves, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.He has delivered us from such a terrible death, and He will deliver us. We have put our hope in Him that He will deliver us again
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Acts 9:16
I will show him how much he must suffer for My name!”
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2 Corinthians 3 6
He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit produces life.
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2 Corinthians 11 24-2 Corinthians 11 25
Five times I received 39 lashes from Jews.Three times I was beaten with rods by the Romans. Once I was stoned by my enemies. Three times I was shipwrecked. I have spent a night and a day in the open sea.
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2 Corinthians 6 9
as unknown yet recognized; as dying and look— we live; as being disciplined yet not killed;
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2 Timothy 2 9
I suffer for it to the point of being bound like a criminal, but God’s message is not bound.
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Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I am completing in my flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for His body, that is, the church.
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1 Corinthians 15 30-1 Corinthians 15 32
Why are we in danger every hour?I affirm by the pride in you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord: I die every day!If I fought wild animals in Ephesus with only human hope, what good did that do me? If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
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1 Corinthians 3 5
What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, and each has the role the Lord has given.
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Colossians 1:29
I labor for this, striving with His strength that works powerfully in me.
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Romans 8:36
As it is written: Because of You we are being put to death all day long; we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.
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Philippians 1:13
so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard, and to everyone else, that my imprisonment is in the cause of Christ.
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2 Corinthians 10 7
Look at what is obvious. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should remind himself of this: Just as he belongs to Christ, so do we.
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Acts 28:16
When we entered Rome, Paul was permitted to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him.
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Acts 27:1
When it was decided that we were to sail to Italy, they handed over Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Imperial Regiment.
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2 Corinthians 11 5
Now I consider myself in no way inferior to the“ super-apostles.”
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Acts 24:26-27
At the same time he was also hoping that money would be given to him by Paul. For this reason he sent for him quite often and conversed with him.After two years had passed, Felix received a successor, Porcius Festus, and because he wished to do a favor for the Jews, Felix left Paul in prison.
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Acts 16:23-24
After they had inflicted many blows on them, they threw them in jail, ordering the jailer to keep them securely guarded.Receiving such an order, he put them into the inner prison and secured their feet in the stocks.
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1 Thessalonians 3 2
And we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s coworker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you concerning your faith,
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Ephesians 3:1
For this reason, I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles—
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Hebrews 10:34
For you sympathized with the prisoners and accepted with joy the confiscation of your possessions, knowing that you yourselves have a better and enduring possession.
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Acts 20:23
except that in town after town the Holy Spirit testifies to me that chains and afflictions are waiting for me.
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Ephesians 6:20
For this I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I might be bold enough in Him to speak as I should.
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Acts 14:19
Then some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and when they had won over the crowds and stoned Paul, they dragged him out of the city, thinking he was dead.
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Acts 28:30
Then he stayed two whole years in his own rented house. And he welcomed all who visited him,
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2 Corinthians 4 11
For we who live are always given over to death because of Jesus, so that Jesus’ life may also be revealed in our mortal flesh.
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Acts 25:14
Since they stayed there many days, Festus presented Paul’s case to the king, saying,“ There’s a man who was left as a prisoner by Felix.
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Ephesians 4:1
Therefore I, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling you have received,
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Acts 21:11
He came to us, took Paul’s belt, tied his own feet and hands, and said,“ This is what the Holy Spirit says:‘ In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into Gentile hands.’”
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1 Timothy 4 6
If you point these things out to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished by the words of the faith and the good teaching that you have followed.
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Philemon 1:9
I appeal to you, instead, on the basis of love. I, Paul, as an elderly man and now also as a prisoner of Christ Jesus,
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2 Corinthians 12 11-2 Corinthians 12 12
I have become a fool; you forced it on me. I should have been endorsed by you, since I am not in any way inferior to the“ super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.The signs of an apostle were performed with great endurance among you— not only signs but also wonders and miracles.
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2 Timothy 1 8
So don’t be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, or of me His prisoner. Instead, share in suffering for the gospel, relying on the power of God.
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2 Timothy 1 16
May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains.
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Philippians 2:17
But even if I am poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.
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1 Corinthians 4 1
A person should consider us in this way: as servants of Christ and managers of God’s mysteries.