2 Timothy 4:16

Webster's Bible (1833)

At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

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  • Acts 7:60 : 60 He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, don't hold this sin against them!" When he had said this, he fell asleep.
  • Acts 22:1 : 1 "Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you."
  • Acts 25:16 : 16 To whom I answered that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction, before the accused has met the accusers face to face, and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.
  • 1 Cor 9:3 : 3 My defense to those who examine me is this.
  • 2 Cor 7:11 : 11 For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.
  • Phil 1:7 : 7 It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Gospel, you all are partakers with me of grace.
  • Phil 1:17 : 17 but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Gospel.
  • 2 Tim 1:15 : 15 This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.
  • 2 Tim 4:10 : 10 for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
  • 1 Pet 3:15 : 15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:
  • Ps 31:11-13 : 11 Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me. 12 I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery. 13 For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, While they conspire together against me, They plot to take away my life.
  • Mark 14:50 : 50 They all left him, and fled.
  • John 16:32 : 32 Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

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    20For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.

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

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    1> My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

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    3My defense to those who examine me is this.

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    10For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, those who 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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    1"Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you."

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    13Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.

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