Acts 20:24

Paul counts his own life as nothing if only he may finish his race and complete the ministry of testifying to God's grace. His supreme aim is faithfulness, not self-preservation.

Cross-references · 40

• 2 Tim 4:6–8For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
• 2 Cor 12:10Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
• 2 Cor 4:1Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
• 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
• Acts 21:13Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
• 2 Cor 4:16–18For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
• Phil 3:13–15Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
• 2 Cor 4:8–9We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
• Heb 12:1–3Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
• Eph 2:4–10But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
• Rom 11:6And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
• Rom 8:35–39Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
• Acts 14:3Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
• 1 Pet 5:12By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.
• Phil 1:20–23According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
• Titus 1:3But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
• 2 Cor 5:8We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
• 1 Cor 9:24–27Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
• Phil 2:17Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
• Gal 1:1Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)
• Acts 11:23Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.
• John 17:4I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
• Rev 12:11And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
• 2 Cor 6:4–10But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
• Acts 20:32And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
• Eph 3:13Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
• 2 Cor 7:4Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.
• Acts 9:15But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
• Col 1:24Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:
• 2 Tim 1:12For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
• 1 Jn 3:16Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
• Rom 3:24–26Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
• Acts 1:17For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry.
• 2 Tim 4:17Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
• Titus 2:11For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
• Heb 10:34For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
• Titus 3:4–7But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
• Acts 22:21And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.
• Acts 26:17–18Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
• 1 Th 3:3That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.

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