2 Corinthians 11:23

Modern English Version

Are they servants of Christ? I speak as a fool. I am more: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, often facing death.

Cross References

Jeremiah 36:5

Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am shut in. I cannot go into the house of the Lord.

Acts 14:19

Then some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there and persuaded the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing he was dead.

Acts 20:23

except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me.

Acts 21:11

When he had arrived, he took Paul’s belt and bound his own hands and feet, saying, “The Holy Spirit says, ‘In this manner the Jews at Jerusalem shall bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’ ”

Acts 25:14

When they had been there many days, Festus stated Paul’s case to the king, saying, “There is a man left as a prisoner by Felix.

Acts 27:1

When it was decided that we should sail to Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan Regiment.

Acts 28:16

When we arrived at Rome, the centurion handed the prisoners over to the captain of the guard. But Paul was allowed to remain by himself with the soldier who guarded him.

Acts 28:30

Paul remained two whole years in his own rented house. He welcomed all who came to him,

Acts 9:16

For I will show him how much he must suffer for My name’s sake.”

Romans 8:36

As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.”

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by the grace of God I am what I am. And His grace toward me was not in vain. I labored more abundantly than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

1 Corinthians 3:5

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to each one?

1 Corinthians 4:1

Let a man so regard us as the ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

1 Corinthians 4:11

Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are poorly clothed and beaten and homeless.

1 Corinthians 4:9

For I think that God has exhibited us, the apostles, last, as if we were sentenced to death. For we have been made a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men.

2 Corinthians 10:7

Do you look at things from the outward appearance? If any man trusts that he is Christ’s, let him consider again that, as he is Christ’s, even so are we Christ’s.

2 Corinthians 11:5

For I think I am not in any way inferior to the most eminent of the apostles.

2 Corinthians 3:6

who has made us able ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 4:11

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that also the life of Jesus might be manifested in our mortal flesh.

2 Corinthians 6:9

as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, but not killed;

Galatians 6:17

From now on let no one trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.

Ephesians 3:1

For this reason I, Paul, am the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles.

Ephesians 4:1

I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, exhort you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you were called.

Ephesians 6:20

for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may speak boldly as I ought to speak.

Philippians 1:13

so that my imprisonments in Christ have become known throughout the entire palace guard and to all the rest.

Philippians 2:17

Yes, and even if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I take delight and rejoice with you all.

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake and fill up in my flesh that which is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the church.

Colossians 1:29

In this I labor, striving according to His power, which effectively works in me.

1 Thessalonians 3:2

We sent Timothy, who is our brother and minister of God and our fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish and comfort you with regard to your faith,

1 Timothy 4:6

If you remind the brothers of these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished by the words of faith and of good teaching, which you have followed closely.

2 Timothy 1:16

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

2 Timothy 1:8

So do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, His prisoner. But share in the sufferings of the gospel by the power of God,

2 Timothy 2:9

in which I suffer trouble like a criminal, even with chains. But the word of God is not bound.

2 Timothy 3:11

persecutions, and afflictions, which came to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra—what persecutions I endured! But the Lord delivered me out of them all.

Philemon 1:9

yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you —I, Paul, an old man, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ —

Hebrews 10:34

For you had compassion on me in my chains and joyfully endured the confiscation of your property, knowing that you have in heaven a better and an enduring possession for yourselves.