TSK · Acts 20:24

And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto Jehovah,

and ye also bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.

For he was numbered among us, and received his portion in this ministry.

who, when he was come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad; and he exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord:

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

Then Paul answered, What do ye, weeping and breaking my heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom I send thee,

Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned as of grace, but as of debt.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

For if I do this of mine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.

[ we are] pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair;

Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved:

Wherefore I ask that ye may not faint at my tribulations for you, which are your glory.

Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all:

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;

that no man be moved by these afflictions; for yourselves know that hereunto we are appointed.

persecutions, sufferings. What things befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me.

But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that through me the message might me fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

For the grace of God hath appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? which having at the first been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard;

Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.