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2 Corinthians 6 4-2 Corinthians 6 5
but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities,beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger;
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1 Corinthians 15 10
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.
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2 Corinthians 1 9-2 Corinthians 1 10
Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.
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Acts 9:16
For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.”
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2 Corinthians 3 6
who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
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2 Corinthians 11 24-2 Corinthians 11 25
Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one.Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea;
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2 Corinthians 6 9
as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and yet not killed;
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2 Timothy 2 9
for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound!
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Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of 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 protest, brothers, by my pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day!What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? 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? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.
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Colossians 1:29
For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.
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Romans 8:36
As it is written,“ For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded 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 all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ.
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2 Corinthians 10 7
Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident that he is Christ’s, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ’s, so also are we.
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Acts 28:16
And when we came into Rome, Paul was allowed to stay by himself, with the soldier who guarded him.
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Acts 27:1
And when it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort named Julius.
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2 Corinthians 11 5
Indeed, I consider that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles.
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Acts 24:26-27
At the same time he hoped that money would be given him by Paul. So he sent for him often and conversed with him.When two years had elapsed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus. And desiring to do the Jews a favor, Felix left Paul in prison.
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Acts 16:23-24
And when they had inflicted many blows upon them, they threw them into prison, ordering the jailer to keep them safely.Having received this order, he put them into the inner prison and fastened 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 establish and exhort you in your faith,
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Ephesians 3:1
For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles—
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Hebrews 10:34
For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.
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Acts 20:23
except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me.
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Ephesians 6:20
for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.
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Acts 14:19
But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
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Acts 28:30
He lived there two whole years at his own expense, and welcomed all who came to him,
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2 Corinthians 4 11
For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
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Acts 25:14
And as they stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying,“ There is a man left prisoner by Felix,
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Ephesians 4:1
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,
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Acts 21:11
And coming to us, he took Paul’s belt and bound his own feet and hands and said,“ Thus says the Holy Spirit,‘ This is how the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”
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1 Timothy 4 6
If you put these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have followed.
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Philemon 1:9
yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you— I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
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2 Corinthians 12 11-2 Corinthians 12 12
I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works.
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2 Timothy 1 8
Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God,
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2 Timothy 1 16
May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains,
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Philippians 2:17
Even if I am to be poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.
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1 Corinthians 4 1
This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.
