2 Corinthians 11:23

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They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as if I were less wise); more so am I: with many more labors, with numerous imprisonments, with wounds beyond measure, with frequent mortifications.

Cross References

Jeremiah 36:5

And Jeremiah instructed Baruch, saying: "I am confined, and so I am unable to enter into the house of the Lord.

Acts 14:19

But as the disciples were standing around him, he got up and entered the city. And the next day, he set out with Barnabas for Derbe.

Acts 20:23

except that the Holy Spirit, throughout every city, has cautioned me, saying that chains and tribulations await me at Jerusalem.

Acts 21:11

And he, when he had come to us, took Paul's belt, and binding his own feet and hands, he said: "Thus says the Holy Spirit: The man whose belt this is, the Jews will bind in this way at Jerusalem. And they will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles."

Acts 25:14

And since they remained there for many days, Festus spoke to the king about Paul, saying: "A certain man was left behind as a prisoner by Felix.

Acts 27:1

Then it was decided to send him by ship to Italy, and that Paul, with the others in custody, should be delivered to a centurion named Julius, of the cohort of Augusta.

Acts 28:16

And when we had arrived at Rome, Paul was given permission to stay by himself, with a soldier to guard him.

Acts 28:30

Then he remained for two whole years in his own rented lodgings. And he received all who went in to him,

Acts 9:16

For I will reveal to him how much he must suffer on behalf of my name."

Romans 8:36

For it is as it has been written: "For your sake, we are being put to death all day long. We are being treated like sheep for the slaughter."

1 Corinthians 15:10

But, by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me has not been empty, since I have labored more abundantly than all of them. Yet it is not I, but the grace of God within me.

1 Corinthians 3:5

We are only the ministers of him in whom you have believed, just as the Lord has granted to each of you.

1 Corinthians 4:1

Accordingly, let man consider us to be ministers of Christ and attendants of the mysteries of God.

1 Corinthians 4:11

Even to this very hour, we hunger and thirst, and we are naked and repeatedly beaten, and we are unsteady.

1 Corinthians 4:9

For I think that God has presented us as the last Apostles, as those destined for death. For we have been made into a spectacle for the world, and for Angels, and for men.

2 Corinthians 10:7

Consider the things that are in accord with appearances. If anyone trusts that by these things he belongs to Christ, let him reconsider this within himself. For just as he belongs to Christ, so also do we.

2 Corinthians 11:5

For I consider that I have done nothing less than the great Apostles.

2 Corinthians 3:6

And he has made us suitable ministers of the New Testament, not in the letter, but in the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 4:11

For we who live are ever handed over unto death for the sake of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our mortal flesh.

2 Corinthians 6:9

as if dying and yet truly alive; as if chastised and yet not subdued;

Galatians 6:17

Concerning other matters, let no one trouble me. For I carry the stigmata of the Lord Jesus in my body.

Ephesians 3:1

By reason of this grace, I, Paul, am a prisoner of Jesus Christ, for the sake of you Gentiles.

Ephesians 4:1

And so, as a prisoner in the Lord, I beg you to walk in a manner worthy of the vocation to which you have been called:

Ephesians 6:20

in such a manner that I may dare to speak exactly as I ought to speak. For I act as an ambassador in chains for the Gospel.

Philippians 1:13

in such a way that my chains have become manifest in Christ in every place of judgment and in all other such places.

Philippians 2:17

Moreover, if I am to be immolated because of the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and give thanks with all of you.

Colossians 1:24

For now I rejoice in my passion on your behalf, and I complete in my flesh the things that are lacking in the Passion of Christ, for the sake of his body, which is the Church.

Colossians 1:29

In him, too, I labor, striving according to his action within me, which he works in virtue.

1 Thessalonians 3:2

And we sent Timothy, our brother and a minister of God in the Gospel of Christ, to confirm you and to exhort you, on behalf of your faith,

1 Timothy 4:6

By proposing these things to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished by words of faith, and by the good doctrine that you have secured.

2 Timothy 1:16

May the Lord have mercy on the house of Onesiphorus, because he has often refreshed me, and he has not been ashamed of my chains.

2 Timothy 1:8

And so, do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, his prisoner. Instead, collaborate with the Gospel in accord with the virtue of God,

2 Timothy 2:9

I labor in this Gospel, even while chained like an evildoer. But the Word of God is not bound.

2 Timothy 3:11

persecutions, afflictions; such things as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra; how I endured persecutions, and how the Lord rescued me from everything.

Philemon 1:9

but I beg you instead, for the sake of charity, since you are so much like Paul: an old man and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 10:34

For you even had compassion on those who were imprisoned, and you accepted with gladness being deprived of your goods, knowing that you have a better and more lasting substance.