Acts 20:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, enduring the trials that came to me through the plots of the Jews. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Serving the Lord with all humility in tears and in the midst of adversity (affliction and trials) which befell me, due to the plots of the Jews [against me]; American Standard Version (1901) serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and with trials which befell me by the plots of the Jews; Common English Bible I served the Lord with great humility and with tears in the midst of trials that came upon me because of the Jews’ schemes. Catholic Public Domain Version serving the Lord, with all humility and despite the tears and trials which befell me from the treacheries of the Jews, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Serving the Lord with all humility, and with tears, and temptations which befell me by the conspiracies of the Jews; |
But if you will not listen, my soul will weep in secret for your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears because the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.
O that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honor.
But when the Jews of Thessalonica learned that the word of God had been proclaimed by Paul in Beroea as well, they came there, too, to stir up and incite the crowds.
But the Jews became jealous, and with the help of some ruffians in the marketplaces they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar. While they were searching for Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly, they attacked Jason’s house.
where he stayed for three months. He was about to set sail for Syria when a plot was made against him by the Jews, so he decided to return through Macedonia.
Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to warn everyone with tears.
When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, who had seen him in the temple, stirred up the whole crowd. They seized him,
For last night there stood by me an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I worship,
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,
For God, whom I serve with my spirit by announcing the gospel of his Son, is my witness that without ceasing I remember you always in my prayers,
For I wrote you out of much distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you grief but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.
Not that we are qualified of ourselves to claim anything as coming from us; our qualification is from God,
For even when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted in every way—disputes without and fears within.
Am I now seeking human approval or God’s approval? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still pleasing people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
For many live as enemies of the cross of Christ; I have often told you of them, and now I tell you even with tears.
since you know that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward; you serve the Lord Christ.
For they report about us what kind of welcome we had among you and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God
Recalling your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy.
My brothers and sisters, whenever you face various trials, consider it all joy,
In this you rejoice, even if now for a little while you have had to suffer various trials,
Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have received a faith as equally honorable as ours through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:
For this reason they are before the throne of God and worship him day and night within his temple, and the one who is seated on the throne will shelter them.