2 Timothy 3:11

Timothy knows the persecutions Paul endured at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra, from all of which the Lord rescued him. Faithful ministry brings suffering, but the Lord delivers his servants.

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• Ps 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
• 2 Cor 11:23–28Are 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, in deaths often.
• Acts 14:5–6When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,
• Acts 13:45But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.
• 2 Pet 2:9the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;
• Acts 13:50–51But 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 14:19–21But 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 14:1–2In Iconium, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.
• Isa 41:14Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh, “and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
• Acts 20:19serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;
• Acts 9:23–25When many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired together to kill him,
• Ps 91:2–6I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”
• 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 26:22Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,
• 2 Cor 4:8–11We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;
• Acts 9:16For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”
• 2 Sam 22:49who brings me away from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
• 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.
• Gen 48:16the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth.”
• Acts 13:14But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down.
• Ps 37:40Yahweh helps them, and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked, and saves them, Because they have taken refuge in him.
• Acts 21:32–33Immediately he took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.
• Isa 43:2When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.
• 1 Cor 4:9–11For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
• Acts 23:12–24When 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.
• Job 5:19–20He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil shall touch you.
• 2 Tim 4:17–18But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
• Acts 26:17delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,
• Ps 91:14“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
• 2 Tim 4:7I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
• Acts 25:3–4asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.
• Acts 20:23–24except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.
• Dan 6:27He delivers and rescues, and he works signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.
• Heb 10:33–34partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
• Rom 8:35–37Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
• 2 Sam 22:1David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul,
• Isa 41:10Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
• Jer 1:19They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you”, says Yahweh, “to rescue you.”

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