2 Corinthians 11:26

Paul describes constant travel beset by dangers from nature, robbers, his own countrymen, Gentiles, and false brothers. It matters because no setting, not even the church, was free from peril in his service of Christ.

Cross-references · 27

• Acts 14:5When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,
• Acts 17:5But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
• Acts 13:50But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.
• Acts 25:3asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.
• Acts 20:19serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;
• 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.
• Acts 15:40but Paul chose Silas, and went out, being commended by the brothers to the grace of God.
• Acts 11:25–26Barnabas went out to Tarsus to look for Saul.
• Acts 21:27–31When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,
• Acts 9:23–30When many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired together to kill him,
• Acts 23:10When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.
• Acts 18:12But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,
• Acts 28:10–11They also honored us with many honors, and when we sailed, they put on board the things that we needed.
• Acts 15:2–4Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.
• Acts 19:23About that time there arose no small stir concerning the Way.
• 2 Cor 11:32In Damascus the governor under King Aretas guarded the city of the Damascenes desiring to arrest me.
• Gal 1:17–21nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.
• Gal 2:4This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;
• 1 Th 2:15–16who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn’t please God, and are contrary to all men;
• 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.”
• Rom 15:24–28whenever I travel to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while.
• Rom 15:19in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;
• Acts 19:1While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples.
• Acts 14:19But 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.
• Acts 23:12–22When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
• Acts 18:18–23Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.
• Acts 13:1–14Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

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