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Acts 20:24

James Moffatt - New Testament

But then, I set no value on my own life as compared with the joy of finishing my course and fulfilling the commission I received from the Lord Jesus to attest the gospel of the grace of God.

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Hence, as I hold this ministry by God's mercy to me, I never lose heart in it;

It makes me satisfied, for Christ's sake, with weakness, insults, trouble, persecution, and calamity; for I am strong just when I am weak.

Then Paul replied, "What do you mean by weeping and disheartening me? I am ready not only to be bound but also to die at Jerusalem for the sake of the Lord Jesus."

Well then, my beloved brothers, hold your ground, immovable; abound in work for the Lord at all times, for you may be sure that in the Lord your labour is never thrown away.

Selected by grace, and therefore not for anything they have done; otherwise grace would cease to be grace.

Here they spent a considerable time, speaking fearlessly about the Lord, who attested the word of his grace by allowing signs and wonders to be performed by them.

By the hand of Silvanus, a faithful brother (in my opinion), I have written you these few lines of encouragement, to testify that this is what the true grace of God means. Stand in that grace.

he gave effect to his word in due time by a proclamation with which I have been entrusted by command of God our Saviour: —

PAUL an apostle — not appointed by men nor commissioned by any man but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead, —

and in this confidence I would fain get away from the body and reside with the Lord.

And now I entrust you to God and the word of his grace; he is able to upbuild you and give you your inheritance among all the consecrated.

When he came and saw the grace of God he rejoiced, and encouraged them all to hold by the Lord with heartfelt purpose

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 —

But the Lord said to him, "Go; I have chosen him to be the means of bringing my Name before the Gentiles and their kings as well as before the sons of Israel.

Judas did enter our number, he did get his allotted share of this our ministry.

I have glorified thee on earth by accomplishing the work thou gavest me to do;

But they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they had to die for it, but they did not cling to life.

We know what love is by this, that He laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for the brotherhood.

and this is why I am suffering. Still, I am not ashamed of it; I know whom I have trusted and I am certain he is able to keep what I have put into his hands till the great Day.

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;

So I beg of you not to lose heart over what I am suffering on your behalf; my sufferings are an honour to you.

I have absolute confidence in you, I am indeed proud of you, you are a perfect comfort to me, I am overflowing with delight, for all the trouble I have to bear.

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.

For the grace of God has appeared to save all men,

But the Lord supported me and gave me strength to make a full statement of the gospel and let all the heathen hear it. I was rescued from the jaws of the lion.

But he said to me, 'Go; I will send you afar to the Gentiles — — '"

to prevent anyone being disturbed by these troubles. (Troubles are our lot, you know that well;

At Philippi, as you know, we had been ill-treated and insulted, but we took courage and confidence in our God to tell you the gospel of God in spite of all the strain.

bearing my testimony, both to Jews and Greeks, of repentance before God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

redounding to the praise of his glorious grace bestowed on us in the Beloved,

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.

Now a worker has his wage counted to him as a due, not as a favour;

and you too are witnesses, for you have been with me from the very beginning.

for I have five brothers; let him bear testimony to them, that they may not come to this place of torture as well.'

And as John was closing his career he said, 'What do you take me for? I am not He; no, he is coming after me, and I am not fit to untie the sandals on his feet!'

and a keen controversy sprang up; but Peter rose and said to them, "Brothers, you are well aware that from the earliest days God chose that of you all I should be the one by whom the Gentiles were to hear the word of the gospel and believe it.

By the time Silas and Timotheus came south from Macedonia, Paul was engrossed in this preaching of the word, arguing to the Jews that the messiah was Jesus.

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

for he nearly died in the service of Christ by risking his life to make up for the services you were not here to render me.

But they were each given a white robe, and told to remain quiet for a little longer, until their number was completed by their fellow-servants and their brothers who were to be killed like themselves.

In me then death is active, in you life.




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