2 Corinthians 11:23

New Revised Standard Version

Are they ministers of Christ? I am talking like a madman—I am a better one: with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless floggings, and often near death.

Cross References

Jeremiah 36:5

And Jeremiah ordered Baruch, saying, “I am prevented from entering the house of the Lord;

Acts 14:19

But Jews came there from Antioch and Iconium and won over the crowds. Then they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

Acts 20:23

except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me.

Acts 21:11

He came to us and 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 in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and will hand him over to the Gentiles.’ ”

Acts 25:14

Since they were staying there several days, Festus laid Paul's case before the king, saying, “There is a man here who was left in prison by Felix.

Acts 27:1

When it was decided that we were to sail for Italy, they transferred Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort, named Julius.

Acts 28:16

When we came into Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself, with the soldier who was guarding him.

Acts 28:30

He lived there two whole years at his own expense and welcomed all who came to him,

Acts 9:16

I myself will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.”

Romans 8:36

As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.”

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not been in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them—though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.

1 Corinthians 3:5

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord assigned to each.

1 Corinthians 4:1

Think of us in this way, as servants of Christ and stewards of God's mysteries.

1 Corinthians 4:11

To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed and beaten and homeless,

1 Corinthians 4:9

For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, as though sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to mortals.

2 Corinthians 10:7

Look at what is before your eyes. If you are confident that you belong to Christ, remind yourself of this, that just as you belong to Christ, so also do we.

2 Corinthians 11:5

I think that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles.

2 Corinthians 3:6

who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 4:11

For while we live, we are always being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be made visible in our mortal flesh.

2 Corinthians 6:9

as unknown, and yet are well known; as dying, and see—we are alive; as punished, and yet not killed;

Galatians 6:17

From now on, let no one make trouble for me; for I carry the marks of Jesus branded on my body.

Ephesians 3:1

This is the reason that I Paul am a prisoner for Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles—

Ephesians 4:1

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called,

Ephesians 6:20

for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it boldly, as I must speak.

Philippians 1:13

so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to everyone else that my imprisonment is for Christ;

Philippians 2:17

But even if I am being poured out as a libation over the sacrifice and the offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you—

Colossians 1:24

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church.

Colossians 1:29

For this I toil and struggle with all the energy that he powerfully inspires within me.

1 Thessalonians 3:2

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

1 Timothy 4:6

If you put these instructions before the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished on the words of the faith and of the sound teaching that you have followed.

2 Timothy 1:16

May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain;

2 Timothy 1:8

Do not be ashamed, then, of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner, but join with me in suffering for the gospel, relying on the power of God,

2 Timothy 2:9

for which I suffer hardship, even to the point of being chained like a criminal. But the word of God is not chained.

2 Timothy 3:11

my persecutions and suffering the things that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

Philemon 1:9

yet I would rather appeal to you on the basis of love—and I, Paul, do this as an old man, and now also as a prisoner of Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 10:34

For you had compassion for those who were in prison, and you cheerfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you yourselves possessed something better and more lasting.