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Acts 20:3
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.
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Philippians 3:18
For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even as I weep, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ,
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Colossians 3:24
knowing that it is from the Lord that you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.
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2 Corinthians 2 4
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.
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Acts 20:31
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.
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Jeremiah 13:17
But if you do not listen to it, My soul will weep in secret for such pride; And my eyes will shed And stream down tears, Because the flock of the Lord has been taken captive.
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Romans 12:11
not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;
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Acts 27:23
For this very night an angel of the God to whom I belong, whom I also serve, came to me,
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Luke 19:41
When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it,
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1 Corinthians 4 9-1 Corinthians 4 13
For I think, God has exhibited us, the apostles, last of all as men condemned to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to mankind.We are fools on account of Christ, but you are prudent in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are without honor!Up to this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed and roughly treated and homeless;and we labor, working with our own hands; when we are verbally abused, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;when we are slandered, we reply as friends; we have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now.
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Jeremiah 9:1
Oh, that my head were waters And my eyes a fountain of tears, That I might weep day and night For those slain of the daughter of my people!
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2 Peter 1 1
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:
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2 Corinthians 3 5
Not that we are adequate in ourselves so as to consider anything as having come from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,
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John 12:26
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.
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Galatians 1:10
For am I now seeking the favor of people, or of God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a bond servant of Christ.
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Acts 9:23-25
When many days had elapsed, the Jews plotted together to do away with him,but their plot became known to Saul. They were also closely watching the gates day and night so that they might put him to death;but his disciples took him at night and let him down through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a large basket.
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Revelation 7:15
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.
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2 Corinthians 7 5
For even when we came into Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted on every side: conflicts on the outside, fears inside.
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Acts 14:5-6
And when an attempt was made by both the Gentiles and the Jews with their rulers, to treat them abusively and to stone them,they became aware of it and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the surrounding region;
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Psalms 119:136
My eyes shed streams of water, Because they do not keep Your Law. Tsadhe
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1 Corinthians 15 9-1 Corinthians 15 10
For I am the least of the apostles, and not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.
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2 Corinthians 12 7-2 Corinthians 12 10
Because of the extraordinary greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me— to keep me from exalting myself!Concerning this I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might leave me.And He has said to me,“ My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.Therefore I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in distresses, in persecutions, in difficulties, in behalf of Christ; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
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2 Corinthians 4 7-2 Corinthians 4 11
But we have this treasure in earthen containers, so that the extraordinary greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves;we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing;persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed;always carrying around in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.For we who live are constantly being handed over to death because of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal flesh.
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1 Peter 1 6
In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials,
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Galatians 4:13-14
but you know that it was because of a bodily illness that I preached the gospel to you the first time;and you did not despise that which was a trial to you in my bodily condition, nor express contempt, but you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus Himself.
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Acts 13:50-51
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 region.But they shook off the dust from their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.
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2 Corinthians 11 23-2 Corinthians 11 30
Are they servants of Christ?— I am speaking as if insane— I more so; in far more labors, in far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, often in danger of death.Five times I received from the Jews thirty nine lashes.Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent adrift at sea.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 at sea, dangers among false brothers;I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.Apart from such external things, there is the daily pressure on me of concern for all the churches.Who is weak without my being weak? Who is led into sin without my intense concern?If I have to boast, I will boast of what pertains to my weakness.
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James 1:2
Consider it all joy, my brothers and sisters, when you encounter various trials,
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Acts 14:19-20
But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having won over the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, thinking that he was dead.But while the disciples stood around him, he got up and entered the city. The next day he left with Barnabas for Derbe.
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Ephesians 6:7
With goodwill render service, as to the Lord, and not to people,
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2 Timothy 1 4
longing to see you, even as I recall your tears, so that I may be filled with joy.
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Romans 1:9
For God, whom I serve in my spirit in the preaching of the gospel of His Son, is my witness as to how unceasingly I make mention of you,
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Romans 1:1
Paul, a bond servant of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,
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Acts 17:13
But when the Jews of Thessalonica found out that the word of God had been proclaimed by Paul in Berea also, they came there as well, agitating and stirring up the crowds.
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Acts 17:5
But the Jews, becoming jealous and taking along some wicked men from the marketplace, formed a mob and set the city in an uproar; and they attacked the house of Jason and were seeking to bring them out to the people.
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1 Thessalonians 1 9
For they themselves report about us as to the kind of reception we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,