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2 Corinthians 6 4-2 Corinthians 6 5
but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
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1 Corinthians 15 10
But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
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2 Corinthians 1 9-2 Corinthians 1 10
Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
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Acts 9:16
For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”
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2 Corinthians 3 6
who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
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2 Corinthians 11 24-2 Corinthians 11 25
Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.
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2 Corinthians 6 9
as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;
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2 Timothy 2 9
in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.
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Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,
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1 Corinthians 15 30-1 Corinthians 15 32
Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then“ let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
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1 Corinthians 3 5
Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?
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Colossians 1:29
for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
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Romans 8:36
Even as it is written,“ For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
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Philippians 1:13
so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ,
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2 Corinthians 10 7
Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.
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Acts 28:16
When we entered into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard, but Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him.
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Acts 27:1
When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.
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2 Corinthians 11 5
For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
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Acts 24:26-27
Meanwhile, he also hoped that money would be given to him by Paul, that he might release him. Therefore also he sent for him more often and talked with him.But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.
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Acts 16:23-24
When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.
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1 Thessalonians 3 2
and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,
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Ephesians 3:1
For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,
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Hebrews 10:34
For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.
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Acts 20:23
except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.
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Ephesians 6:20
for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
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Acts 14:19
But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
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Acts 28:30
Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house and received all who were coming to him,
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2 Corinthians 4 11
For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.
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Acts 25:14
As he stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying,“ There is a certain man left a prisoner by Felix;
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Ephesians 4:1
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,
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Acts 21:11
Coming to us and taking Paul’s belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said,“ The Holy Spirit says:‘ So the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”
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1 Timothy 4 6
If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.
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Philemon 1:9
yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
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2 Corinthians 12 11-2 Corinthians 12 12
I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty works.
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2 Timothy 1 8
Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,
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2 Timothy 1 16
May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,
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Philippians 2:17
Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.
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1 Corinthians 4 1
So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.