2 Corinthians 11:23

Revised Standard Version

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

Cross References

Jeremiah 36:5

And Jeremiah ordered Baruch, saying, “I am debarred from going to the house of the Lord;

Acts 14:19

But Jews came there from Antioch and Iconium; and having persuaded the people, 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 afflictions await me.

Acts 21:11

And coming to us he took Paul's girdle and bound his own feet and hands, and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit, ‘So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this girdle and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’ ”

Acts 25:14

And as they stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul's case before the king, saying, “There is a man left prisoner by Felix;

Acts 27:1

And when it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort, named Julius.

Acts 28:16

And when we came into Rome, Paul was allowed to stay by himself, with the soldier that guarded him.

Acts 28:30

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

Acts 9:16

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

Romans 8:36

As it is written, “For thy sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded 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 was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God which is with me.

1 Corinthians 3:5

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

1 Corinthians 4:1

This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

1 Corinthians 4:11

To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and buffeted and homeless,

1 Corinthians 4:9

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

2 Corinthians 10:7

Look at what is before your eyes. If any one is confident that he is Christ's, let him remind himself that as he is Christ's, so are we.

2 Corinthians 11:5

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

2 Corinthians 3:6

who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not in a written code but in the Spirit; for the written code 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 manifested in our mortal flesh.

2 Corinthians 6:9

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

Galatians 6:17

Henceforth let no man trouble me; for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.

Ephesians 3:1

For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles—

Ephesians 4:1

I therefore, a prisoner for 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; that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.

Philippians 1:13

so that it has become known throughout the whole praetorian guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ;

Philippians 2:17

Even if I am to be poured as a libation upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.

Colossians 1:24

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,

Colossians 1:29

For this I toil, striving with all the energy which he mightily inspires within me.

1 Thessalonians 3:2

and we sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the gospel of Christ, to establish you in your faith and to exhort you,

1 Timothy 4:6

If you put these instructions before the brethren, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished on the words of the faith and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

2 Timothy 1:16

May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me; he was not ashamed of my chains,

2 Timothy 1:8

Do not be ashamed then of testifying to our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel in the power of God,

2 Timothy 2:9

the gospel for which I am suffering and wearing fetters like a criminal. But the word of God is not fettered.

2 Timothy 3:11

my persecutions, my sufferings, what befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra, what persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me.

Philemon 1:9

yet for love's sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus —

Hebrews 10:34

For you had compassion on the prisoners, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.