Acts 20:23

World English Bible (2000)

except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for 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 Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.
  • Acts 21:11 : 11 Coming to us, and taking Paul's belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit: 'So will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"
  • 1 Thess 3:3 : 3 that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.
  • Acts 14:22 : 22 confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God.
  • John 16:33 : 33 I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."
  • Acts 8:29 : 29 The Spirit said to Philip, "Go near, and join yourself to this chariot."
  • 2 Tim 2:12 : 12 If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.
  • Acts 21:33 : 33 Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, 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
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    18 When they had come to him, he said to them, "You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,

    19 serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

    20 how I didn't shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

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

    22 Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;

  • Acts 20:24-25
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    24 But these things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

    25 "Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching the Kingdom of God, will see my face no more.

  • 2 Tim 2:9-10
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    9 in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God's word isn't chained.

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

  • Phil 1:12-14
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    12 Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News;

    13 so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ;

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

  • Acts 21:13
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    13 Then Paul answered, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."

  • 2 Tim 3:11
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    11 persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. Out of them all the Lord delivered me.

  • Phil 1:30
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    30 having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear is in me.

  • Eph 6:20
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    20 for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

  • Acts 26:21-22
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    21 For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.

    22 Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,

  • Acts 23:11
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    11 The following night, the Lord stood by him, and said, "Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome."

  • Acts 22:18-19
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    18 and saw him saying to me, 'Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.'

    19 I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

  • Rom 9:1-2
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    1 I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,

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

  • Rom 15:19
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    19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God's Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

  • 2 Cor 1:23
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    23 But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn't come to Corinth to spare you.

  • Acts 21:11
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    11 Coming to us, and taking Paul's belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit: 'So will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"

  • Acts 19:21
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    21 Now after these things had ended, Paul determined 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
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    17 but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.

    18 What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.

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

    20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

  • 2 Cor 11:26
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    26 I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

  • Acts 22:21
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    21 "He said to me, 'Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.'"

  • Col 1:24
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    24 Now 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 assembly;

  • Rom 15:31
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    31 that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;

  • Acts 26:29
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    29 Paul said, "I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me this day, might become such as I am, except for these bonds."

  • 2 Tim 1:8
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    8 Therefore don't be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

  • Phil 1:28
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    28 and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

  • Gal 6:17
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    17 From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body.

  • Acts 14:22
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    22 confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God.

  • Acts 22:5
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    5 As also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.

  • 2 Cor 11:28
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    28 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies.

  • Phil 1:8
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    8 For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

  • Rom 15:23
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    23 but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you,

  • 1 Thess 3:3
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    3 that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

  • 2 Cor 11:23
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    23 Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

  • 2 Tim 4:5-6
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    5 But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

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

  • Phlm 1:13
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    13 whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.

  • Acts 20:31
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    31 Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn't cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.