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Verse 23

ministrants of Christ are they? -- as beside myself I speak -- I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;

Referenced Verses

1 Cor 15:10 : 10 and by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace that `is' towards me came not in vain, but more abundantly than they all did I labour, yet not I, but the grace of God that `is' with me;
2 Cor 6:4-5 : 4 but in everything recommending ourselves as God's ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses, 5 in stripes, in imprisonments, in insurrections, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,
Acts 9:16 : 16 for I will shew him how many things it behoveth him for My name to suffer.'
2 Cor 3:6 : 6 who also made us sufficient `to be' ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive.
2 Cor 6:9 : 9 as unknown, and recognized; as dying, and lo, we live; as chastened, and not put to death;
1 Cor 15:30-32 : 30 why also do we stand in peril every hour? 31 Every day do I die, by the glorying of you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord: 32 if after the manner of a man with wild beasts I fought in Ephesus, what the advantage to me if the dead do not rise? let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die!
2 Cor 1:9-9 : 9 but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead, 10 who out of so great a death did deliver us, and doth deliver, in whom we have hoped that even yet He will deliver;
1 Cor 3:5 : 5 Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave?
2 Cor 11:24-25 : 24 from Jews five times forty `stripes' save one I did receive; 25 thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a night and a day in the deep I have passed;
2 Cor 12:11-12 : 11 I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing. 12 The signs, indeed, of the apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds,
Eph 3:1 : 1 For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you the nations,
Eph 4:1 : 1 Call upon you, then, do I -- the prisoner of the Lord -- to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,
Eph 6:20 : 20 for which I am an ambassador in a chain, that in it I may speak freely -- as it behoveth me to speak.
Phil 1:13 : 13 so that my bonds have become manifest in Christ in the whole praetorium, and to the other places -- all,
Phil 2:17 : 17 but if also I am poured forth upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and joy with you all,
Col 1:24 : 24 I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,
Col 1:29 : 29 for which also I labour, striving according to his working that is working in me in power.
1 Thess 3:2 : 2 and did send Timotheus -- our brother, and a ministrant of God, and our fellow-workman in the good news of the Christ -- to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,
1 Tim 4:6 : 6 These things placing before the brethren, thou shalt be a good ministrant of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of the faith, and of the good teaching, which thou didst follow after,
2 Tim 1:8 : 8 therefore thou mayest not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but do thou suffer evil along with the good news according to the power of God,
2 Tim 1:16 : 16 may the Lord give kindness to the house of Onesiphorus, because many times he did refresh me, and of my chain was not ashamed,
2 Tim 2:9 : 9 in which I suffer evil -- unto bonds, as an evil-doer, but the word of God hath not been bound;
Phlm 1:9 : 9 because of the love I rather entreat, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ;
Heb 10:34 : 34 for also with my bonds ye sympathised, and the robbery of your goods with joy ye did receive, knowing that ye have in yourselves a better substance in the heavens, and an enduring one.
2 Cor 10:7 : 7 The things in presence do ye see? if any one hath trusted in himself to be Christ's, this let him reckon again from himself, that according as he is Christ's, so also we `are' Christ's;
2 Cor 11:5 : 5 for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,
Acts 14:19 : 19 And there came thither, from Antioch and Iconium, Jews, and they having persuaded the multitudes, and having stoned Paul, drew him outside of the city, having supposed him to be dead;
Acts 16:23-24 : 23 many blows also having laid upon them, they cast them to prison, having given charge to the jailor to keep them safely, 24 who such a charge having received, did put them to the inner prison, and their feet made fast in the stocks.
Acts 20:23 : 23 save that the Holy Spirit in every city doth testify fully, saying, that for me bonds and tribulations remain;
Acts 21:11 : 11 and he having come unto us, and having taken up the girdle of Paul, having bound also his own hands and feet, said, `Thus saith the Holy Spirit, The man whose is this girdle -- so shall the Jews in Jerusalem bind, and they shall deliver `him' up to the hands of nations.'
Acts 24:26-27 : 26 and at the same time also hoping that money shall be given to him by Paul, that he may release him, therefore, also sending for him the oftener, he was conversing with him; 27 and two years having been fulfilled, Felix received a successor, Porcius Festus; Felix also willing to lay a favour on the Jews, left Paul bound.
Acts 25:14 : 14 and as they were continuing there more days, Festus submitted to the king the things concerning Paul, saying, `There is a certain man, left by Felix, a prisoner,
Acts 27:1 : 1 And when our sailing to Italy was determined, they were delivering up both Paul and certain others, prisoners, to a centurion, by name Julius, of the band of Sebastus,
Acts 28:16 : 16 And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered up the prisoners to the captain of the barrack, but Paul was suffered to remain by himself, with the soldier guarding him.
Acts 28:30 : 30 and Paul remained an entire two years in his own hired `house', and was receiving all those coming in unto him,
Rom 8:36 : 36 (according as it hath been written -- `For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,')
2 Cor 4:11 : 11 for always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh,
1 Cor 4:1 : 1 Let a man so reckon us as officers of Christ, and stewards of the secrets of God,