Acts 20:23

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.

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  • Acts 9:16 : 16 ‹For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.›
  • Acts 21:4 : 4 And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.
  • Acts 21:11 : 11 And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver [him] into the hands of the Gentiles.
  • 1 Thess 3:3 : 3 That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
  • Acts 14:22 : 22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, [and] exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
  • John 16:33 : 33 ‹These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.›
  • Acts 8:29 : 29 Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.
  • 2 Tim 2:12 : 12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with [him]: if we deny [him], he also will deny us:
  • Acts 21:33 : 33 Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded [him] to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.

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    18And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons,

    19Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:

    20[And] how I kept back nothing that was profitable [unto you], but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house,

    21Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

    22And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:

  • Acts 20:24-25
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    24But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

    25And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.

  • 2 Tim 2:9-10
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    9Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, [even] unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.

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

  • Phil 1:12-14
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    12¶ But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things [which happened] unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;

    13So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other [places];

    14And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

  • Acts 21:13
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    13Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

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    11Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of [them] all the Lord delivered me.

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    30Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear [to be] in me.

  • Eph 6:20
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    20For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

  • Acts 26:21-22
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    21For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill [me].

    22Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:

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    11And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, ‹Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.›

  • Acts 22:18-19
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    18And saw him saying unto me, ‹Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.›

    19And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:

  • Rom 9:1-2
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    1¶ I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

    2That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

  • Rom 15:19
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    19Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

  • 2 Cor 1:23
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    23Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.

  • Acts 21:11
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    11And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver [him] into the hands of the Gentiles.

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    17But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.

    18What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

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

    20According to my earnest expectation and [my] hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but [that] with all boldness, as always, [so] now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether [it be] by life, or by death.

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    26[In] journeyings often, [in] perils of waters, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils by [mine own] countrymen, [in] perils by the heathen, [in] perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brethren;

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    21And he said unto me, ‹Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.›

  • Col 1:24
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    24Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:

  • Rom 15:31
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    31That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judaea; and that my service which [I have] for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints;

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    29And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.

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    8Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;

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    28And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.

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    17From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.

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    3That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.

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    6For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.

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