Verse 16

for if I may proclaim good news, it is no glorying for me, for necessity is laid upon me, and wo is to me if I may not proclaim good news;

Referenced Verses

  • Rom 1:14 : 14 Both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to wise and to thoughtless, I am a debtor,
  • Acts 9:15 : 15 And the Lord said unto him, `Be going on, because a choice vessel to Me is this one, to bear My name before nations and kings -- the sons also of Israel;
  • Luke 9:62 : 62 and Jesus said unto him, `No one having put his hand on a plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of God.'
  • Acts 4:20 : 20 for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'
  • Acts 9:6 : 6 trembling also, and astonished, he said, `Lord, what dost thou wish me to do?' and the Lord `said' unto him, `Arise, and enter into the city, and it shall be told thee what it behoveth thee to do.'
  • Acts 26:16-20 : 16 but rise, and stand upon thy feet, for for this I appeared to thee, to appoint thee an officer and a witness both of the things thou didst see, and of the things `in which' I will appear to thee, 17 delivering thee from the people, and the nations, to whom now I send thee, 18 to open their eyes, to turn `them' from darkness to light, and `from' the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that `is' toward me. 19 `Whereupon, king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, 20 but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 And I say, `Wo to me, for I have been silent, For a man -- unclean of lips `am' I, And in midst of a people unclean of lips I am dwelling, Because the King, Jehovah of Hosts, have my eyes seen.'
  • Jer 1:17 : 17 `And thou, thou dost gird up thy loins, and hast arisen, and spoken unto them all that I command thee: be not affrighted because of them, lest I affright thee before them.
  • Jer 20:7 : 7 Thou hast persuaded me, O Jehovah, and I am persuaded; Thou hast hardened me, and dost prevail, I have been for a laughter all the day, Every one is mocking at me,
  • Jer 20:9 : 9 And I said, `I do not mention Him, Nor do I speak any more in His name,' And it hath been in my heart As a burning fire shut up in my bones, And I have been weary of containing, And I am not able.
  • Amos 3:8 : 8 A lion hath roared -- who doth not fear? The Lord Jehovah hath spoken -- who doth not prophesy?
  • Amos 7:15 : 15 and Jehovah taketh me from after the flock, and Jehovah saith unto me, Go, prophesy unto My people Israel.
  • Rom 15:17 : 17 I have, then, a boasting in Christ Jesus, in the things pertaining to God,
  • Col 4:17 : 17 and say to Archippus, `See to the ministration that thou didst receive in the Lord, that thou mayest fulfil it.'
  • Rom 4:2 : 2 for if Abraham by works was declared righteous, he hath to boast -- but not before god;