TSK · Acts 20:24

And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that [was] by the gate, and took [it], and brought [it] to David: but David would not drink [of] it, but poured it out to the LORD,

‹And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.›

For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry.

Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.

Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine 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 now I send thee,›

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

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

For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation [of the gospel] is committed unto me.

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

¶ [We are] troubled on every side, yet not distressed; [we are] perplexed, but not in despair;

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward [man] is renewed day by day.

But in all [things] approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, 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, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

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

Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:

That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.

Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of [them] all the Lord delivered me.

Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and [that] all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

¶ For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard [him];

¶ Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us 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 perceive we the love [of God], because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down [our] lives for the brethren.