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2 Corinthians 11:23

New American Bible - revised edition

Are they ministers of Christ? (I am talking like an insane person.) I am still more, with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, far worse beatings, and numerous brushes with death.

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Then Jeremiah commanded Baruch: “I cannot enter the house of the Lord; I am barred from it.

However, some Jews from Antioch and Iconium arrived and won over the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

except that in one city after another the holy Spirit has been warning me that imprisonment and hardships await me.

He came up to us, took Paul’s belt, bound his own feet and hands with it, and said, “Thus says the holy Spirit: This is the way the Jews will bind the owner of this belt in Jerusalem, and they will hand him over to the Gentiles.”

Since they spent several days there, Festus referred Paul’s case to the king, saying, “There is a man here left in custody by Felix.

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

When he entered Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself, with the soldier who was guarding him. Testimony to Jews in Rome.

He remained for two full years in his lodgings. He received all who came to him,

and I will show him what he will have to suffer for my name.”

As it is written: “For your sake we are being slain all the day; we are looked upon as sheep to be slaughtered.”

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been ineffective. Indeed, I have toiled harder than all of them; not I, however, but the grace of God [that is] with me.

What is Apollos, after all, and what is Paul? Ministers through whom you became believers, just as the Lord assigned each one.

Thus should one regard us: as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clad and roughly treated, we wander about homeless

For as I see it, God has exhibited us apostles as the last of all, like people sentenced to death, since we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and human beings alike.

Look at what confronts you. Whoever is confident of belonging to Christ should consider that as he belongs to Christ, so do we.

For I think that I am not in any way inferior to these “superapostles.”

who has indeed qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit; for the letter brings death, but the Spirit gives life. Contrast with the Old Covenant.

For we who live are constantly being given up to death for the sake of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

as unrecognized and yet acknowledged; as dying and behold we live; as chastised and yet not put to death;

From now on, let no one make troubles for me; for I bear the marks of Jesus on my body.

Because of this, I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ [Jesus] for you Gentiles—

I, then, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received,

for which I am an ambassador in chains, so that I may have the courage to speak as I must. A Final Message.

so that my imprisonment has become well known in Christ throughout the whole praetorium and to all the rest,

But, even if I am poured out as a libation upon the sacrificial service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with all of you.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of his body, which is the church,

For this I labor and struggle, in accord with the exercise of his power working within me.

and sent Timothy, our brother and co-worker for God in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith,

If you will give these instructions to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished on the words of the faith and of the sound teaching you have followed.

May the Lord grant mercy to the family of Onesiphorus because he often gave me new heart and was not ashamed of my chains.

So do not be ashamed of your testimony to our Lord, nor of me, a prisoner for his sake; but bear your share of hardship for the gospel with the strength that comes from God.

for which I am suffering, even to the point of chains, like a criminal. But the word of God is not chained.

persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra, persecutions that I endured. Yet from all these things the Lord delivered me.

I rather urge you out of love, being as I am, Paul, an old man, and now also a prisoner for Christ Jesus.

You even joined in the sufferings of those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, knowing that you had a better and lasting possession.




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