Verse 17

The former preach Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing that they can stir up trouble for me while I am in chains.

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Referenced Verses

  • Phil 1:7 : 7 It is right for me to think this way about you all, because I have you in my heart; whether I am in chains or defending and confirming the gospel, you all share in God’s grace with me.
  • Phil 2:3 : 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves.
  • 1 Tim 2:7 : 7 For this purpose, I was appointed as a herald and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
  • 2 Tim 1:11-12 : 11 For this purpose, I was appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. 12 That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.
  • 2 Tim 4:6-7 : 6 For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure is near. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have kept the faith.
  • 2 Tim 4:16 : 16 At my first defense, no one stood by me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be counted against them.
  • Luke 21:14 : 14 Therefore, make up your minds not to prepare your defense beforehand.
  • Acts 22:1 : 1 Brothers and fathers, listen now to my defense before you.
  • Acts 26:1 : 1 Agrippa said to Paul, "You are permitted to speak for yourself." Then Paul stretched out his hand and began his defense.
  • Acts 26:24 : 24 While Paul was making his defense, Festus said loudly, 'You are out of your mind, Paul! Your great learning is driving you insane.'
  • Rom 1:13-17 : 13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (but was prevented until now), in order that I might have some fruit among you, just as I have among the other Gentiles. 14 I am a debtor both to Greeks and to non-Greeks, both to the wise and to the foolish. 15 So I am eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome. 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Greek. 17 For in the gospel, the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: 'The righteous will live by faith.'
  • 1 Cor 9:16-17 : 16 For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am compelled to do so. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! 17 If I do this willingly, I have a reward. But if unwillingly, I am simply entrusted with a responsibility.
  • Gal 2:7-8 : 7 On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter was to the circumcised— 8 (For He who worked through Peter for his apostleship to the circumcised also worked through me for mine to the Gentiles)—