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2 Corinthians 11:23

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Are they servants of Christ? I’m talking like a madman #– #I’m a better one: with far more labours, many more imprisonments, far worse beatings, many times near death.

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as unknown, yet recognised; as dying, yet see #– #we live; as being disciplined, yet not killed;


He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant,  not of the letter,  but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.


But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace towards me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.


I labour for this, striving  with his strength that works powerfully in me.


Now I rejoice in my sufferings  for you, and I am completing in my flesh what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for his body,  that is, the church.


I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.’


I appeal to you, instead, on the basis of love. I, Paul, as an elderly man  and now also as a prisoner  of Christ Jesus,


for which I suffer to the point of being bound like a criminal. But the word of God is not bound.


What then is Apollos? What is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, and each has the role the Lord has given.


For you sympathised with the prisoners  and accepted with joy the confiscation of your possessions, because you know that you yourselves have a better and enduring possession.  ,


May the Lord grant mercy  to the household of Onesiphorus,  because he often refreshed me  and was not ashamed of my chains.


So don’t be ashamed  of the testimony about our Lord,  or of me his prisoner.  Instead, share in suffering for the gospel, relying on the power  of God.


If you point these things out to the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished by the words of the faith  and the good teaching that you have followed.


And we sent Timothy,  our brother and God’s co-worker  in the gospel of Christ,  to strengthen and encourage you concerning your faith,


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


so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard, and to everyone else, that my imprisonment is because I am in Christ.


For this I am an ambassador  in chains. Pray that I might be bold enough to speak about it as I should.


Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord,  urge you to walk worthy of the calling you have received,


For this reason, I, Paul, the prisoner  of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles #– #


Now I consider myself in no way inferior to those ‘super-apostles’,


Look at what is obvious.  If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ,  let him remind himself of this: Just as he belongs to Christ, so do we.


For we who live are always being given over to death  for Jesus’s sake, so that Jesus’s life may also be displayed in our mortal flesh.


As it is written: Because of you we are being put to death all day long; we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.   ,


Paul stayed for two whole years in his own rented house. And he welcomed all who visited him,


When we entered Rome,  Paul was allowed to live by himself with the soldier who guarded him.


When it was decided that we were to sail to Italy, they handed over Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Imperial Regiment.  ,


Since they were staying there several days, Festus presented Paul’s case to the king, saying, ‘There’s a man who was left as a prisoner by Felix.


He came to us, took Paul’s belt, tied his own feet and hands, and said, ‘This is what the Holy Spirit says: “In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him over to the Gentiles.” ’


except that in every town the Holy Spirit warns me that chains and afflictions are waiting for me.


Some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and when they won over the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, thinking he was dead.


A person should think of us in this way: as servants  of Christ and managers  of the mysteries of God.


Then Jeremiah commanded Baruch, ‘I am restricted;  I cannot enter the temple of the Lord,


For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, in last place, like men condemned to die: We have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.


Up to the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty; we are poorly clothed, roughly treated, homeless;


From now on, let no one cause me trouble, because I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.


along with the persecutions and sufferings  that came to me in Antioch,  Iconium,  and Lystra.  What persecutions I endured #– #and yet the Lord rescued me from them all.





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