Acts 20:19

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Acts 20:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:

Serving

With all

Galatians 4:13

Many

Temptations

1 Peter 1:6

By the

General references

1 Corinthians 2:3

Bible References

Serving

For this very night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood before me,

If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also; if anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.

Paul, a bond-servant of Christ Jesus,

called as an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,

not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ.

With good will render service, as to the Lord, and not to men,

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.

For they themselves report about us what kind of a

reception we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve

a living and true God,

Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,

To those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

For this reason, they are before the throne of God; and they serve Him day and night in His

temple; and He who sits on the throne will spread His tabernacle over them.

With all

For I am the least of the apostles, and not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,

For even when we came into Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted on every side: conflicts without, fears within.

Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself!

but you know that it was because of a bodily illness that I preached the gospel to you the first time;

Many

Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of three years I did not cease to admonish each one with tears.

My eyes shed streams of water,
Because they do not keep Your law.

Oh that my head were waters

And my eyes a fountain of tears,
That I might weep day and night
For the slain of the daughter of my people!

But if you will not listen to it,
My soul will sob in secret for such pride;
And my eyes will bitterly weep
And flow down with tears,
Because the flock of the Lord has been taken captive.

When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it,

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have especially for you.

For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ,

longing to see you, even as I recall your tears, so that I may be filled with joy.

Temptations

For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves;

Are they servants of Christ?—I speak as if insane—I more so; in

far more labors, in

far more imprisonments,

beaten times without number, often in danger of death.

Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,

In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials,

By the

And there he spent three months, and when a plot was formed against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.

When many days had elapsed, the Jews plotted together to do away with him,

But the Jews incited the

devout women of prominence and the leading men of the city, and instigated a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.

And when an attempt was made by both the Gentiles and the Jews with their rulers, to mistreat and to stone them,

But the Jews, becoming jealous and taking along some wicked men from the market place, formed a mob and set the city in an uproar; and attacking the house of Jason, they were seeking to bring them out to the people.

I have been on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers on the sea, dangers among false brethren;

General references

I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling,