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2 Corinthians 11:23

James Moffatt - New Testament

Ministers of Christ? yes perhaps, but not as much as I am (I am mad to talk like this! ), with all my labours, with all my lashes, with all my time in prison — a record longer far than theirs. I have been often at the point of death;

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'unknown' but well-known, dying but here I am alive, chastened but not killed,

and he has further qualified me to be the minister of a new covenant — a covenant not of written law but of spirit; for the written law kills but the Spirit makes alive.

But by God's grace I am what I am. The grace he showed me did not go for nothing; no, I have done far more work than all of them — though it was not I but God's grace at my side.

I labour for that end, striving for it with the divine energy which is a power within me.

I am suffering now on your behalf, but I rejoice in that; I would make up the full sum of all that Christ has to suffer in my person on behalf of the church, his Body;

I will show him all he has to suffer for the sake of my Name."

I prefer to appeal to you on the ground of love. Well then, as Paul the old man, who now-a-days is a prisoner for Christ Jesus,

for which I have to suffer imprisonment as if I were a criminal. (But there is no prison for the word of God.)

Who is Apollos? Who is Paul? They are simply used by God to give you faith, each as the Lord assigns his task.

for you did sympathize with the prisoners, and you took the confiscation of your own belongings cheerfully, conscious that elsewhere you had higher, you had lasting, possessions.

May the Lord show favour to the household of Onesiphorus, for many a time he braced me up; he was not ashamed of my imprisonment —

So do not be ashamed to testify to our Lord, and do not be ashamed of a prisoner of the Lord like me; join me in bearing suffering for the gospel by the power of the God

Lay this before the brotherhood, and you will be an excellent minister of Christ Jesus, brought up on the truths of the faith and on the lessons of the good doctrine you have already followed.

I sent Timotheus our brother, a minister of God in the gospel of Christ, for your strengthening and encouragement in the faith,

Even if my life-blood has to be poured as a libation on the sacred sacrifice of faith you are offering to God, I rejoice, I congratulate you all —

throughout the whole of the praetorian guard and everywhere else it is recognized that I am imprisoned on account of my connexion with Christ,

for the sake of which I am in custody as its envoy. Pray that I may have freedom to declare it as I should.

As the Lord's prisoner, then, I beg of you to live a life worthy of your calling,

For this reason I Paul, I whom Jesus has made a prisoner for the sake of you Gentiles —

I hold I am not one whit inferior to these precious 'apostles'!

Look at this obvious fact. So-and-so is perfectly sure he 'belongs to Christ'? Well then, let him understand, on second thoughts, that I 'belong to Christ' as much as he does.

every day of my life I am being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may come out within my mortal flesh.

(Because, as it is written, For thy sake we are being killed all the day long, we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.)

For two full years he remained in his private lodging, welcoming anyone who came to visit him;

When we did reach Rome, Paul got permission to live by himself, with a soldier to guard him.

When it was decided we were to sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to an officer of the Imperial regiment called Julius.

As they were spending several days there, Festus laid Paul's case before the king. "There is a man," he said, "who was left in prison by Felix.

He came to us, took Paul's girdle and bound his own feet and hands, saying, "Here is the word of the holy Spirit: 'So shall the Jews bind the owner of this girdle at Jerusalem and hand him over to the Gentiles'."

Only, I know this, that in town after town the holy Spirit testifies to me that bonds and troubles are awaiting me.

But Jews from Antioch and Iconium arrived, who won over the crowds, and after pelting Paul with stones they dragged him outside the town, thinking he was dead.

This is how you are to look upon us, as servants of Christ and stewards of God's secret truths.

For it seems to me that God means us apostles to come in at the very end, like the doomed gladiators in the arena! We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men!

To this very hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and knocked about, we are waifs,

Let no one interfere with me after this, for I bear branded on my body the owner's stamp of Jesus.

my persecutions, my sufferings — all that befell me at Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, all the persecutions I had to undergo, from which the Lord rescued me.




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