Acts 20:19

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with {G4183} tears, and with trials which befell me by the plots of the Jews;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Δουλεύων τῷ Κυρίῳ μετὰ πάσης ταπεινοφροσύνης, καὶ πολλῶν δακρύων, καὶ πειρασμῶν, τῶν συμβάντων μοι ἐν ταῖς ἐπιβουλαῖς τῶν Ἰουδαίων:

Transliteration

Douleuōn the Kyriō with all tapeinophrosynēs, and many dakryōn, and peirasmōn, of-those symbantōn to-me by the epiboulais of-the Ioudaiōn:

Grammar Details

• *Douleuōn*: present participle, active, nominative, masculine, singular - serving
• *Kyriō*: dative, masculine, singular - Lord
• *tapeinophrosynēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - of humility
• *dakryōn*: genitive, neuter, plural - of tears
• *peirasmōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - of trials/temptations
• *symbantōn*: aorist participle, active, genitive, masculine/neuter, plural - having happened
• *epiboulais*: dative, feminine, plural - plots/designs
• *Ioudaiōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - of Jews

Word Meanings

• *Douleuōn*: serving/being a slave to
• *Kyriō*: Lord/Master
• *tapeinophrosynēs*: humility/lowliness of mind
• *dakryōn*: tears/weeping
• *peirasmōn*: trials/temptations/tests
• *symbantōn*: having happened/befallen/occurred
• *epiboulais*: plots/designs/schemes

Referenced Verses

• Acts 20:3 : 3 And when he had spent three months [there,] and {G5259} a plot was laid against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.
• Acts 20:31 : 31 Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears.
• Rom 12:11 : 11 in diligence not slothful; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
• Phil 3:18 : 18 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, [that they are] the enemies of the cross of Christ:
• Col 3:24 : 24 knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance: {G1063} ye serve the Lord Christ.
• 2 Cor 2:4 : 4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly unto you.
• 2 Cor 3:5 : 5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;
• 2 Cor 4:7-9 : 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves; 8 [ we are] pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair; 9 pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed; 10 always bearing about in the body the dying of {G2962} Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body. 11 For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
• 2 Cor 7:5 : 5 For even when we were come into Macedonia our flesh had no relief, but [we] [were] afflicted on every side; without [were] fightings, within [were] fears.
• 2 Cor 11:23-30 : 23 Are 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. 24 Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one. 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep; 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; 27 [ in] labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. 28 Besides those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me {G2596} daily, anxiety for all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is caused to stumble, and I burn not? 30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern my weakness.
• 2 Cor 12:7-9 : 7 And by reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I should not be exalted overmuch. 8 Concerning this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. 9 And he hath said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for [my] power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
• Gal 1:10 : 10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? {G1063} if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.
• Gal 4:13-14 : 13 but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you the first time: 14 and that which was a temptation to you in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but ye received me as an angel of God, [even] as Christ Jesus.
• Eph 6:7 : 7 with good will doing service, as unto the Lord, and not unto men:
• Ps 119:136 : 136 Streams of water run down mine eyes, Because they observe not thy law.
• Jer 9:1 : 1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
• Jer 13:17 : 17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Jehovah's flock is taken captive.
• Luke 19:41 : 41 And when he drew nigh, he saw the city and wept over it,
• John 12:26 : 26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will the Father honor.
• Acts 9:23-25 : 23 And when many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel together to kill him: 24 but their plot became known to Saul. And they watched the gates also day and night that they might kill him: 25 but his disciples took him by night, and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.
• Acts 13:50-51 : 50 But the Jews urged on the devout women of honorable estate, and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their borders. 51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.
• Acts 14:5-6 : 5 And when there was made an onset both of the Gentiles and of the Jews with their rulers, to treat them shamefully and to stone them, 6 they became aware of it, and fled unto the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the region round about:
• Acts 14:19-20 : 19 But there came Jews thither from Antioch and Iconium: and having persuaded the multitudes, {G2532} they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead. 20 But as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and entered into the city: and on the morrow he went forth with Barnabas to Derbe.
• Acts 17:5 : 5 But the Jews, {G3588} {G544} being moved with jealousy, took unto them {G2532} certain vile fellows of the rabble, and gathering a crowd, set the city on an uproar; and assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them forth to the people.
• Acts 17:13 : 13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed of Paul at Beroea also, they came thither likewise, stirring up and troubling the multitudes.
• 1 Thess 1:9 : 9 For they themselves report concerning us what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve a living and true God,
• 2 Tim 1:4 : 4 longing to see thee, remembering thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;
• Jas 1:2 : 2 Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations;
• 1 Pet 1:6 : 6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, ye have been put to grief in manifold trials,
• 2 Pet 1:1 : 1 Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and [the] Saviour Jesus Christ:
• Rev 7:15 : 15 Therefore {G5124} are they before the throne of God; and they serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall spread his tabernacle over them.
• 1 Cor 4:9-9 : 9 For, I think, {G3754} God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men. 10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor. 11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; 12 and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; 13 being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.
• 1 Cor 15:9-9 : 9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
• Acts 27:23 : 23 For there stood by me this night an angel of the God whose I am, {G1510} whom also I serve,
• Rom 1:1 : 1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called [to be] an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
• Rom 1:9 : 9 For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you, always in my prayers