2 Corinthians 11:23

New Century Version

Are they serving Christ? I am serving him more. (I am crazy to talk like this.) I have worked much harder than they. I have been in prison more often. I have been hurt more in beatings. I have been near death many times.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 6:9

We are not known, but we are well known. We seem to be dying, but we continue to live. We are punished, but we are not killed.

2 Corinthians 3:6

He made us able to be servants of a new agreement from himself to his people. This new agreement is not a written law, but it is of the Spirit. The written law brings death, but the Spirit gives life.

1 Corinthians 15:10

But God’s grace has made me what I am, and his grace to me was not wasted. I worked harder than all the other apostles. (But it was not I really; it was God’s grace that was with me.)

Colossians 1:29

To do this, I work and struggle, using Christ’s great strength that works so powerfully in me.

Colossians 1:24

I am happy in my sufferings for you. There are things that Christ must still suffer through his body, the church. I am accepting, in my body, my part of these things that must be suffered.

Acts 9:16

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

Philemon 1:9

But because I love you, I am pleading with you instead. I, Paul, an old man now and also a prisoner for Christ Jesus,

2 Timothy 2:9

and I am suffering because of it to the point of being bound with chains like a criminal. But God’s teaching is not in chains.

1 Corinthians 3:5

Is Apollos important? No! Is Paul important? No! We are only servants of God who helped you believe. Each one of us did the work God gave us to do.

Hebrews 10:34

You helped the prisoners. You even had joy when all that you owned was taken from you, because you knew you had something better and more lasting.

2 Timothy 1:16

May the Lord show mercy to the family of Onesiphorus, who has often helped me and was not ashamed that I was in prison.

2 Timothy 1:8

So do not be ashamed to tell people about our Lord Jesus, and do not be ashamed of me, in prison for the Lord. But suffer with me for the Good News. God, who gives us the strength to do that,

1 Timothy 4:6

By telling these things to the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus. You will be made strong by the words of the faith and the good teaching which you have been following.

1 Thessalonians 3:2

and send Timothy to you. Timothy, our brother, works with us for God and helps us tell people the Good News about Christ. We sent him to strengthen and encourage you in your faith

Philippians 2:17

Your faith makes you offer your lives as a sacrifice in serving God. If I have to offer my own blood with your sacrifice, I will be happy and full of joy with all of you.

Philippians 1:13

All the palace guards and everyone else knows that I am in prison because I am a believer in Christ.

Ephesians 6:20

I have been sent to preach this Good News, and I am doing that now, here in prison. Pray that when I preach the Good News I will speak without fear, as I should.

Ephesians 4:1

I am in prison because I belong to the Lord. Therefore I urge you who have been chosen by God to live up to the life to which God called you.

Ephesians 3:1

So I, Paul, am a prisoner of Christ Jesus for you who are not Jews.

2 Corinthians 11:5

I do not think that those “great apostles” are any better than I am.

2 Corinthians 10:7

You must look at the facts before you. If you feel sure that you belong to Christ, you must remember that we belong to Christ just as you do.

2 Corinthians 4:11

We are alive, but for Jesus we are always in danger of death so that the life of Jesus can be seen in our bodies that die.

Romans 8:36

As it is written in the Scriptures: “For you we are in danger of death all the time. People think we are worth no more than sheep to be killed.”

Acts 28:30

Paul stayed two full years in his own rented house and welcomed all people who came to visit him.

Acts 28:16

When we arrived at Rome, Paul was allowed to live alone, with the soldier who guarded him.

Acts 27:1

It was decided that we would sail for Italy. An officer named Julius, who served in the emperor’s army, guarded Paul and some other prisoners.

Acts 25:14

They stayed there for some time, and Festus told the king about Paul’s case. Festus said, “There is a man that Felix left in prison.

Acts 21:11

He came to us and borrowed Paul’s belt and used it to tie his own hands and feet. He said, “The Holy Spirit says, ‘This is how evil people in Jerusalem will tie up the man who wears this belt. Then they will give him to the older leaders.’ ”

Acts 20:23

I know only that in every city the Holy Spirit tells me that troubles and even jail wait for me.

Acts 14:19

Then some evil people came from Antioch and Iconium and persuaded the people to turn against Paul. So they threw stones at him and dragged him out of town, thinking they had killed him.

1 Corinthians 4:1

People should think of us as servants of Christ, the ones God has trusted with his secrets.

Jeremiah 36:5

Then Jeremiah commanded Baruch, “I cannot go to the Temple of the Lord. I must stay here.

1 Corinthians 4:9

But it seems to me that God has put us apostles in last place, like those sentenced to die. We are like a show for the whole world to see—angels and people.

1 Corinthians 4:11

Even to this very hour we do not have enough to eat or drink or to wear. We are often beaten, and we have no homes in which to live.

Galatians 6:17

So do not give me any more trouble. I have scars on my body that show I belong to Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 3:11

You know how I have been hurt and have suffered, as in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I have suffered, but the Lord saved me from all those troubles.