Acts 20:19

Paul served the Lord with humility, tears, and through trials caused by Jewish plots. His ministry was costly and self-giving.

Cross-references · 36

• Col 3:24because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.
• 2 Cor 2:4For through many tears I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart, not to grieve you but to let you know how much I love you.
• 2 Cor 4:7–11Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.
• Rom 12:11Do not let your zeal subside; keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.
• Acts 20:3where he stayed three months. And when the Jews formed a plot against him as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia.
• 2 Cor 12:7–10or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
• 2 Cor 7:5For when we arrived in Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were pressed from every direction—conflicts on the outside, fears within.
• Acts 14:19–20Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and won over the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, presuming he was dead.
• Jer 13:17But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.
• 2 Cor 3:5Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.
• Phil 3:18For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
• 2 Cor 11:23–30Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.
• Gal 1:10Am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
• Eph 6:7Serve with good will, as to the Lord and not to men,
• Jas 1:2Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds,
• Acts 20:31Therefore be alert and remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.
• John 12:26If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, My servant will be as well. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
• Luke 19:41As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it
• Acts 27:23For just last night an angel of God, whose I am and whom I serve, stood beside me
• Acts 17:13But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that Paul was also proclaiming the word of God in Berea, they went there themselves to incite and agitate the crowds.
• 2 Pet 1:1Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:
• 1 Pet 1:6In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials
• Ps 119:136My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.
• Acts 14:5–6But when the Gentiles and Jews, together with their rulers, set out to mistreat and stone them,
• 1 Th 1:9For they themselves report what kind of welcome you gave us, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
• Acts 9:23–25After many days had passed, the Jews conspired to kill him,
• Rom 1:9God, whom I serve with my spirit in preaching the gospel of His Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you
• Rom 1:1Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, and set apart for the gospel of God—
• Acts 13:50–51The Jews, however, incited the religious women of prominence and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their district.
• 1 Cor 4:9–13For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.
• Gal 4:13–14You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.
• Jer 9:1Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.
• 2 Tim 1:4Recalling your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy.
• Rev 7:15For this reason, they are before the throne of God and serve Him day and night in His temple; and the One seated on the throne will spread His tabernacle over them.
• 1 Cor 15:9–10For I am the least of the apostles and am unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
• Acts 17:5The Jews, however, became jealous. So they brought in some troublemakers from the marketplace, formed a mob, and sent the city into an uproar. They raided Jason’s house in search of Paul and Silas, hoping to bring them out to the people.

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