Verse 23

They are the ministers of Christ (I speake as a foole) I am more: in labours more aboundant: in stripes aboue measure: in prison more plenteously: in death oft.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 15:10 : 10 But by the grace of God, I am that I am: and his grace which is in me, was not in vaine: but I laboured more aboundantly then they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which is with me.
  • 2 Cor 6:4-5 : 4 But in all things we approue our selues as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, 5 In stripes, in prisons, in tumults, in labours,
  • Acts 9:16 : 16 For I will shewe him, howe many things he must suffer for my Names sake.
  • 2 Cor 3:6 : 6 Who also hath made vs able ministers of the Newe testament, not of the letter, but of the Spirite: for the letter killeth, but the Spirite giueth life.
  • 2 Cor 6:9 : 9 As vnknowen, and yet knowen: as dying, and beholde, we liue: as chastened, and yet not killed:
  • 1 Cor 15:30-32 : 30 Why are wee also in ieopardie euery houre? 31 By your reioycing which I haue in Christ Iesus our Lord, I die dayly. 32 If I haue fought with beastes at Ephesus after ye maner of men, what aduantageth it me, if the dead be not raised vp? let vs eate and drinke: for to morowe we shall die.
  • 2 Cor 1:9-9 : 9 Yea, we receiued the sentence of death in our selues, because we shoulde not trust in our selues, but in God, which rayseth the dead. 10 Who deliuered vs from so great a death, and doeth deliuer vs: in whom we trust, that yet hereafter he will deliuer vs,
  • 1 Cor 3:5 : 5 Who is Paul then? And who is Apollos, but the ministers by whome yee beleeued, and as the Lord gaue to euery man?
  • 2 Cor 11:24-25 : 24 Of the Iewes fiue times receiued I fourtie stripes saue one. 25 I was thrise beaten with roddes: I was once stoned: I suffered thrise shipwracke: night and day haue I bene in the deepe sea.
  • 2 Cor 12:11-12 : 11 I was a foole to boast my selfe: yee haue compelled mee: for I ought to haue bene commended of you: for in nothing was I inferiour vnto the very chiefe Apostles, though I bee nothing. 12 The signes of an Apostle were wrought among you with all patience, with signes, and wonders, and great workes.
  • Eph 3:1 : 1 For this cause, I Paul am the prisoner of Iesus Christ for you Gentiles,
  • Eph 4:1 : 1 I therefore, being prisoner in the Lorde, praie you that yee walke worthie of the vocation whereunto yee are called,
  • Eph 6:20 : 20 Whereof I am the ambassadour in bonds, that therein I may speake boldely, as I ought to speake.
  • Phil 1:13 : 13 So that my bandes in Christ are famous throughout all the iudgement hall, and in all other places,
  • Phil 2:17 : 17 Yea, and though I bee offered vp vpon the sacrifice, and seruice of your faith, I am glad, and reioyce with you all.
  • Col 1:24 : 24 Now reioyce I in my suffrings for you, and fulfill the rest of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, for his bodies sake, which is the Church,
  • Col 1:29 : 29 Whereunto I also labour & striue, according to his working which worketh in me mightily.
  • 1 Thess 3:2 : 2 And haue sent Timotheus our brother and minister of God, and our labour felow in the Gospel of Christ, to stablish you, and to comfort you touching your faith,
  • 1 Tim 4:6 : 6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Iesus Christ, which hast bene nourished vp in the wordes of faith, and of good doctrine, which thou hast continually followed.
  • 2 Tim 1:8 : 8 Be not therefore ashamed of the testimonie of our Lord, neither of me his prisoner: but be partaker of the afflictions of the Gospel, according to the power of God,
  • 2 Tim 1:16 : 16 The Lord giue mercie vnto the house of Onesiphorus: for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chaine,
  • 2 Tim 2:9 : 9 Wherein I suffer trouble as an euill doer, euen vnto bondes: but the worde of God is not bounde.
  • Phlm 1:9 : 9 Yet for loues sake I rather beseeche thee, though I be as I am, euen Paul aged, and euen nowe a prisoner for Iesus Christ.
  • Heb 10:34 : 34 For both ye sorowed with mee for my bonds, and suffered with ioy the spoyling of your goods, knowing in your selues howe that ye haue in heauen a better, and an enduring substance.
  • 2 Cor 10:7 : 7 Looke yee on things after the appearance? If any man trust in himselfe that hee is Christes, let him consider this againe of himself, that as he is Christes, euen so are we Christes.
  • 2 Cor 11:5 : 5 Verely I suppose that I was not inferior to the very chiefe Apostles.
  • Acts 14:19 : 19 Then there came certaine Iewes from Antiochia and Iconium, which when they had persuaded the people, stoned Paul, and drewe him out of the citie, supposing he had bene dead.
  • Acts 16:23-24 : 23 And when they had beaten them sore, they cast them into prison, commaunding the Iayler to keepe them surely. 24 Who hauing receiued such commaundement, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feete fast in the stockes.
  • Acts 20:23 : 23 Saue that ye holy Ghost witnesseth in euery citie, saying, that bondes and afflictions abide me.
  • Acts 21:11 : 11 And when he was come vnto vs, he tooke Pauls girdle, and bound his owne hands & feete, and sayd, Thus sayth the holy Ghost, So shall the Iewes at Hierusalem binde the man that oweth this girdle, and shall deliuer him into the hands of the Gentiles.
  • Acts 24:26-27 : 26 Hee hoped also that money shoulde haue bene giuen him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore hee sent for him the oftner, and communed with him. 27 When two yeeres were expired, Porcius Festus came into Felix roume: and Felix willing to get fauour of the Iewes, left Paul bound.
  • Acts 25:14 : 14 And when they had remained there many dayes, Festus declared Pauls cause vnto the King, saying, There is a certaine man left in prison by Felix,
  • Acts 27:1 : 1 Now when it was concluded, that we should sayle into Italie, they deliuered both Paul, and certaine other prisoners vnto a Centurion named Iulius, of the band of Augustus.
  • Acts 28:16 : 16 So when we came to Rome, the Centurion deliuered the prisoners to the generall Captaine: but Paul was suffered to dwell by him selfe with a souldier that kept him.
  • Acts 28:30 : 30 And Paul remained two yeeres full in an house hired for himselfe, and receiued all that came in vnto him,
  • Rom 8:36 : 36 As it is written, For thy sake are we killed all day long: we are counted as sheepe for the slaughter.
  • 2 Cor 4:11 : 11 For we which liue, are alwaies deliuered vnto death for Iesus sake, that the life also of Iesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
  • 1 Cor 4:1 : 1 Let a man so thinke of vs, as of the ministers of Christ, and disposers of the secrets of God: