Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death. Cross References Jeremiah 36:5 Then Jeremiah commanded Baruch, "I am restricted; I cannot enter the house of the LORD; Acts 9:16 I will show him how much he must suffer for My name." Acts 16:23 And after striking them with many blows, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to guard them securely. Romans 8:36 As it is written: "For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." 1 Corinthians 3:5 What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each his role. 1 Corinthians 4:9 For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men. 1 Corinthians 4:11 To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. 1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them--yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. 2 Corinthians 3:6 And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. 2 Corinthians 6:4 Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities; 2 Corinthians 6:5 in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger; 2 Corinthians 10:7 You are looking at outward appearances. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should remind himself that we belong to Christ just as much as he does. Galatians 6:17 From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus. 1 Timothy 4:6 By pointing out these things to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished by the words of faith and sound instruction that you have followed. 2 Timothy 3:11 my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. Treasury of Scripture Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. ministers. 2 Corinthians 3:6 2 Corinthians 6:4 1 Corinthians 3:5 I am. 2 Corinthians 11:5 2 Corinthians 12:11,12 in labours. 1 Corinthians 15:10 Colossians 1:29 in stripes. 2 Corinthians 11:24,25 2 Corinthians 6:4,5 Acts 9:16 in prison. Acts 9:16 Acts 16:24 Acts 20:23 in deaths. 2 Corinthians 1:9,10 |