TSK · Acts 20:24

So the three elite warriors broke through the Philistine forces and drew some water from the cistern in Bethlehem near the city gate. They carried it back to David, but David refused to drink it. He poured it out as a drink offering to the LORD

and you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

for he was counted as one of us and received a share in this ministry.”

When he came and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with devoted hearts,

testifying to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.

Then Paul replied,“What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be tied up, but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you

Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited due to grace but due to obligation.

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward. But if I do it unwillingly, I am entrusted with a responsibility.

So then, dear brothers and sisters, be firm. Do not be moved! Always be outstanding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

We are experiencing trouble on every side, but are not crushed; we are perplexed, but not driven to despair;

Therefore we do not despair, but even if our physical body is wearing away, our inner person is being renewed day by day.

But as God’s servants, we have commended ourselves in every way, with great endurance, in persecutions, in difficulties, in distresses,

Therefore I am content with weaknesses, with insults, with troubles, with persecutions and difficulties for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.

to the praise of the glory of his grace that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son.

For this reason I ask you not to lose heart because of what I am suffering for you, which is your glory.

But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice together with all of you.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body– for the sake of his body, the church– what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.

so that no one would be shaken by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this.

as well as the persecutions and sufferings that happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, and in Lystra. I endured these persecutions and the Lord delivered me from them all.

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed for all the Gentiles to hear. And so I was delivered from the lion’s mouth!

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people.

how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first communicated through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him,

The Lord’s Discipline Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we must get rid of every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with endurance the race set out for us,

We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.