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Acts 20:24
But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.
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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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Philippians 1:20-21
according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
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Romans 8:35-37
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?Even as it is written,“ For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
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2 Timothy 4 6
For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.
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1 Corinthians 15 31
I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
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Philippians 2:26
since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick.
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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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2 Peter 1 14
knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.
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Acts 20:37
They all wept freely, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,
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Revelation 3:10
Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
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Revelation 12:11
They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.
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Acts 5:41
They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.
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2 Corinthians 4 10-2 Corinthians 4 17
always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.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.So then death works in us, but life in you.But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written,“ I believed, and therefore I spoke.” We also believe, and therefore we also speak;knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,
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2 Timothy 2 4-2 Timothy 2 6
No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.The farmer who labors must be the first to get a share of the crops.
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2 Timothy 1 4
longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;
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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 11 23-2 Corinthians 11 27
Are they servants of Christ?( I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.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.I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
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Ezekiel 18:2
“ What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying,‘ The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?
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Jonah 1:6
So the ship master came to him, and said to him,“ What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won’t perish.”
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Isaiah 3:15
What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
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1 Samuel 15 14
Samuel said,“ Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?”
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1 Samuel 1 8
Elkanah her husband said to her,“ Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”