Acts 20:31

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Therefore be alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.

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  • Acts 19:10 : 10 This went on for two years, so that all who lived in the province of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.
  • Heb 13:17 : 17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls and will give an account for their work. Let them do this with joy and not with complaints, for this would be no advantage for you.
  • Acts 19:8 : 8 Paul Continues to Minister at Ephesus So Paul entered the synagogue and spoke out fearlessly for three months, addressing and convincing them about the kingdom of God.
  • Col 1:28 : 28 We proclaim him by instructing and teaching all people with all wisdom so that we may present every person mature in Christ.
  • Acts 20:19 : 19 serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots of the Jews.
  • Acts 24:17 : 17 After several years I came to bring to my people gifts for the poor and to present offerings,
  • 1 Cor 4:14 : 14 A Father’s Warning I am not writing these things to shame you, but to correct you as my dear children.
  • Acts 20:7 : 7 On the first day of the week, when we met to break bread, Paul began to speak to the people, and because he intended to leave the next day, he extended his message until midnight.
  • Acts 20:11 : 11 Then Paul went back upstairs, and after he had broken bread and eaten, he talked with them a long time, until dawn. Then he left.
  • Ezek 3:17-20 : 17 “Son of man, I have appointed you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you must give them a warning from me. 18 When I say to the wicked,“You will certainly die,” and you do not warn him– you do not speak out to warn the wicked to turn from his wicked lifestyle so that he may live– that wicked person will die for his iniquity, but I will hold you accountable for his death. 19 But as for you, if you warn the wicked and he does not turn from his wicked deed and from his wicked lifestyle, he will die for his iniquity but you will have saved your own life. 20 “When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I set an obstacle before him, he will die. If you have not warned him, he will die for his sin. The righteous deeds he performed will not be considered, but I will hold you accountable for his death.
  • Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them,“You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
  • Matt 13:25 : 25 But while everyone was sleeping, an enemy came and sowed darnel among the wheat and went away.
  • Mark 13:34-37 : 34 It is like a man going on a journey. He left his house and put his slaves in charge, assigning to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to stay alert. 35 Stay alert, then, because you do not know when the owner of the house will return– whether during evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or at dawn– 36 or else he might find you asleep when he returns suddenly. 37 What I say to you I say to everyone: Stay alert!”
  • Luke 21:36 : 36 But stay alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that must happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
  • 1 Thess 2:9-9 : 9 For you recall, brothers and sisters, our toil and drudgery: By working night and day so as not to impose a burden on any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God. 10 You are witnesses, and so is God, as to how holy and righteous and blameless our conduct was toward you who believe.
  • 1 Thess 5:14 : 14 And we urge you, brothers and sisters, admonish the undisciplined, comfort the discouraged, help the weak, be patient toward all.
  • 2 Thess 3:8 : 8 and we did not eat anyone’s food without paying. Instead, in toil and drudgery we worked night and day in order not to burden any of you.
  • 2 Tim 4:5 : 5 You, however, be self-controlled in all things, endure hardship, do an evangelist’s work, fulfill your ministry.
  • Rev 16:15 : 15 (Look! I will come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays alert and does not lose his clothes so that he will not have to walk around naked and his shameful condition be seen.)

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    18When they arrived, he said to them,“You yourselves know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I set foot in the province of Asia,

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    20You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming to you anything that would be helpful, and from teaching you publicly and from house to house,

    21testifying to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.

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    32And now I entrust you to God and to the message of his grace. This message is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

  • Acts 20:23-27
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    23except that the Holy Spirit warns me in town after town that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me.

    24But I do not consider my life worth anything to myself, so that I may finish my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.

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    26Therefore I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of you all.

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  • Acts 20:29-30
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  • 1 Tim 1:3
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  • Gal 4:10-11
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    10You are observing religious days and months and seasons and years.

    11I fear for you that my work for you may have been in vain.

  • 2 Pet 1:12-13
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    12Salvation Based on the Word of God Therefore, I intend to remind you constantly of these things even though you know them and are well established in the truth that you now have.

    13Indeed, as long as I am in this tabernacle, I consider it right to stir you up by way of a reminder,

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    9For you recall, brothers and sisters, our toil and drudgery: By working night and day so as not to impose a burden on any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

  • 2 Pet 1:15
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    15Indeed, I will also make every effort that, after my departure, you have a testimony of these things.

  • 1 Thess 3:10
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    10We pray earnestly night and day to see you in person and make up what may be lacking in your faith.

  • 2 Tim 1:18
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    18May the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that day! And you know very well all the ways he served me in Ephesus.

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    3Thanksgiving and Charge to Timothy I am thankful to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I remember you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day.

    4As I remember your tears, I long to see you, so that I may be filled with joy.

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    3because we recall in the presence of our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Acts 28:31
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    31proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with complete boldness and without restriction.

  • 2 Cor 1:23
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    23Why Paul Postponed His Visit Now I appeal to God as my witness, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth.

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    17Exhortation to the Faithful But you, dear friends– recall the predictions foretold by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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    4For out of great distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not to make you sad, but to let you know the love that I have especially for you.

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    5You, however, be self-controlled in all things, endure hardship, do an evangelist’s work, fulfill your ministry.

  • Col 1:28
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    28We proclaim him by instructing and teaching all people with all wisdom so that we may present every person mature in Christ.

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    11So he stayed there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

  • Acts 20:36-38
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    36When he had said these things, he knelt down with them all and prayed.

    37They all began to weep loudly, and hugged Paul and kissed him,

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    16I do not cease to give thanks for you when I remember you in my prayers.

  • Acts 21:13
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    13Then Paul replied,“What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be tied up, but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

  • Acts 19:10
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    10This went on for two years, so that all who lived in the province of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.

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    10Continue in What You Have Learned You, however, have followed my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,

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    14A Father’s Warning I am not writing these things to shame you, but to correct you as my dear children.

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    13Final Challenge and Blessing Stay alert, stand firm in the faith, show courage, be strong.

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    23As far as I am concerned, far be it from me to sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you! I will instruct you in the way that is good and upright.

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    37What I say to you I say to everyone: Stay alert!”

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    10Because of this I am writing these things while absent, so that when I arrive I may not have to deal harshly with you by using my authority– the Lord gave it to me for building up, not for tearing down!

  • 1 Tim 4:6
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    6By pointing out such things to the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, having nourished yourself on the words of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed.

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    32But remember the former days when you endured a harsh conflict of suffering after you were enlightened.