1 Corinthians 16:9

Paul stays because God has opened a wide and effective door for ministry, even though many oppose him. Open doors and fierce opposition often come together.

Cross-references · 8

• 2 Cor 2:12Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,
• Acts 14:27When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.
• Col 4:3praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds;
• Rev 3:7–8“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
• 2 Cor 1:8–10For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
• 1 Cor 15:32If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
• Acts 19:8–10He entered into the synagogue, and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning God’s Kingdom.
• Phil 3:18For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,

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