Acts 20:23

American Standard Version (1901)

save that the Holy Spirit testifieth unto me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Acts 9:16 : 16 for I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake.
  • Acts 21:4 : 4 And having found the disciples, we tarried there seven days: and these said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not set foot in Jerusalem.
  • Acts 21:11 : 11 And coming to us, and taking Paul's girdle, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, Thus saith the Holy Spirit, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.
  • 1 Thess 3:3 : 3 that no man be moved by these afflictions; for yourselves know that hereunto we are appointed.
  • Acts 14:22 : 22 confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.
  • John 16:33 : 33 These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
  • Acts 8:29 : 29 And the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.
  • 2 Tim 2:12 : 12 if we endure, we shall also reign with him: if we shall deny him, he also will deny us:
  • Acts 21:33 : 33 Then the chief captain came near, and laid hold on him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and inquired who he was, and what he had done.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Acts 20:18-22
    5 verses
    85%

    18And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, after what manner I was with you all the time,

    19serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and with trials which befell me by the plots of the Jews;

    20how I shrank not from declaring unto you anything that was profitable, and teaching you publicly, and from house to house,

    21testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

    22And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:

  • Acts 20:24-25
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    80%

    24But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

    25And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I went about preaching the kingdom, shall see my face no more.

  • 2 Tim 2:9-10
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    75%

    9wherein I suffer hardship unto bonds, as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound.

    10Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

  • Phil 1:12-14
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    74%

    12Now I would have you know, brethren, that the things [which happened] unto me have fallen out rather unto the progress of the gospel;

    13so that my bonds became manifest in Christ throughout the whole praetorian guard, and to all the rest;

    14and that most of the brethren in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.

  • Acts 21:13
    74%

    13Then Paul answered, What do ye, weeping and breaking my heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

  • 2 Tim 3:11
    74%

    11persecutions, sufferings. What things befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me.

  • Phil 1:30
    73%

    30having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

  • Eph 6:20
    73%

    20for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

  • Acts 26:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21For this cause the Jews seized me in the temple, and assayed to kill me.

    22Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand unto this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses did say should come;

  • Acts 23:11
    72%

    11And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer: for as thou hast testified concerning me at Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.

  • Acts 22:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18and saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem; because they will not receive of thee testimony concerning me.

    19And I said, Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:

  • Rom 9:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,

    2that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

  • Rom 15:19
    72%

    19in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and round about even unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ;

  • 2 Cor 1:23
    72%

    23But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I forbare to come unto Corinth.

  • Acts 21:11
    72%

    11And coming to us, and taking Paul's girdle, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, Thus saith the Holy Spirit, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.

  • Acts 19:21
    71%

    21Now after these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.

  • Phil 1:17-20
    4 verses
    71%

    17but the other proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.

    18What then? only that in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and therein I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

    19For I know that this shall turn out to my salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

    20according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but [that] with all boldness, as always, [so] now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

  • 2 Cor 11:26
    71%

    26[ in] journeyings often, [in] perils of rivers, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils from [my] countrymen, [in] perils from the Gentiles, [in] perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brethren;

  • Acts 22:21
    71%

    21And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee forth far hence unto the Gentiles.

  • Col 1:24
    71%

    24Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;

  • Rom 15:31
    71%

    31that I may be delivered from them that are disobedient in Judaea, and [that] my ministration which [I have] for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;

  • Acts 26:29
    71%

    29And Paul [said], I would to God, that whether with little or with much, not thou only, but also all that hear me this day, might become such as I am, except these bonds.

  • 2 Tim 1:8
    70%

    8Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but suffer hardship with the gospel according to the power of God;

  • Phil 1:28
    70%

    28and in nothing affrighted by the adversaries: which is for them an evident token of perdition, but of your salvation, and that from God;

  • Gal 6:17
    70%

    17Henceforth, let no man trouble me; for I bear branded on my body the marks of Jesus.

  • Acts 14:22
    70%

    22confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

  • Acts 22:5
    70%

    5As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and journeyed to Damascus to bring them also that were there unto Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.

  • 2 Cor 11:28
    70%

    28Besides those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all the churches.

  • Phil 1:8
    70%

    8For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

  • Rom 15:23
    69%

    23but now, having no more any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come unto you,

  • 1 Thess 3:3
    69%

    3that no man be moved by these afflictions; for yourselves know that hereunto we are appointed.

  • 2 Cor 11:23
    69%

    23Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.

  • 2 Tim 4:5-6
    2 verses
    69%

    5But be thou sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry.

    6For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure is come.

  • Phlm 1:13
    69%

    13whom I would fain have kept with me, that in thy behalf he might minister unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

  • Acts 20:31
    69%

    31Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears.