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 already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.
• 2 Cor 12:10Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, 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, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.
• 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
• Acts 21:13Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”
• 2 Cor 4:16–18Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
• Phil 3:13–15Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,
• 2 Cor 4:8–9We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;
• Heb 12:1–3Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
• Eph 2:4–10But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
• Rom 11:6And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
• Rom 8:35–39Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
• Acts 14:3Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
• 1 Pet 5:12Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.
• Phil 1:20–23according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.
• Titus 1:3but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;
• 2 Cor 5:8We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
• 1 Cor 9:24–27Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.
• Phil 2:17Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.
• Gal 1:1Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead),
• Acts 11:23who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.
• John 17:4I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.
• Rev 12:11They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.
• 2 Cor 6:4–10but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
• Acts 20:32Now, brothers, I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
• Eph 3:13Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.
• 2 Cor 7:4Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
• Acts 9:15But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.
• Col 1:24Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly;
• 2 Tim 1:12For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
• 1 Jn 3:16By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
• Rom 3:24–26being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;
• Acts 1:17For he was counted with us, and received his portion in this ministry.
• 2 Tim 4:17But 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.
• Titus 2:11For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
• Heb 10:34For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.
• Titus 3:4–7But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,
• Acts 22:21“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”
• Acts 26:17–18delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,
• 1 Th 3:3that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

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