2 Timothy 4:16
At my first defence no one took my part, but all forsook me: may it not be laid to their account.
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- Acts 7:60 : 60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
- Acts 22:1 : 1 Brethren and fathers, hear ye the defence which I now make unto you.
- Acts 25:16 : 16 To whom I answered, that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man, before that the accused have the accusers face to face, and have had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.
- 1 Cor 9:3 : 3 My defence to them that examine me is this.
- 2 Cor 7:11 : 11 For behold, this selfsame thing, that ye were made sorry after a godly sort, what earnest care it wrought in you, yea what clearing of yourselves, yea what indignation, yea what fear, yea what longing, yea what zeal, yea what avenging! In everything ye approved yourselves to be pure in the matter.
- Phil 1:7 : 7 even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers with me of grace.
- Phil 1:17 : 17 but the other proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.
- 2 Tim 1:15 : 15 This thou knowest, that all that are in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.
- 2 Tim 4:10 : 10 for Demas forsook me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
- 1 Pet 3:15 : 15 but sanctify in your hearts Christ as Lord: [being] ready always to give answer to every man that asketh you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, yet with meekness and fear:
- Ps 31:11-13 : 11 Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, Yea, unto my neighbors exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintance: They that did see me without fled from me. 12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. 13 For I have heard the defaming of many, Terror on every side: While they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
- Mark 14:50 : 50 And they all left him, and fled.
- John 16:32 : 32 Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and [yet] I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
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19 who ought to have been here before thee, and to make accusation, if they had aught against me.
20 Or else let these men themselves say what wrong-doing they found when I stood before the council,
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15 This thou knowest, that all that are in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.
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3 My defence to them that examine me is this.
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10 For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, they that watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
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11 God delivereth me to the ungodly, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked.
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16 To whom I answered, that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man, before that the accused have the accusers face to face, and have had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.
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1 Brethren and fathers, hear ye the defence which I now make unto you.
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4 who for my life laid down their own necks; unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles:
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2 and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for all have not faith.
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13 Neither can they prove to thee the things whereof they now accuse me.
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8 For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.