Acts 21:13

Paul answers that their weeping breaks his heart, yet he is ready to be bound and even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. His resolve is fixed on Christ.

Cross-references · 23

• Acts 20:24But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from the Lord Jesus—the ministry of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.
• Phil 1:20–21I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have complete boldness so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.
• Phil 2:17But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.
• Rom 8:35–37Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
• 2 Tim 4:6For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand.
• 2 Tim 2:4–6A soldier refrains from entangling himself in civilian affairs, in order to please the one who enlisted him.
• Rev 12:11They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.
• 2 Cor 4:10–17We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
• Acts 20:37They all wept openly as they embraced Paul and kissed him.
• Col 1:24Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions for the sake of His body, which is the church.
• 2 Pet 1:14because I know that this tent will soon be laid aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.
• Acts 5:41The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name.
• Acts 9:16I will show him how much he must suffer for My name.”
• 2 Tim 1:4Recalling your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy.
• 1 Cor 15:31I face death every day, brothers, as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• 2 Cor 11:23–27Are 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.
• Rev 3:10Because you have kept My command to persevere, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
• Phil 2:26For he has been longing for all of you and is distressed because you heard he was ill.
• 1 Sam 15:14But Samuel replied, “Then what is this bleating of sheep and lowing of cattle that I hear?”
• Jonah 1:6The captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”
• Ezek 18:2“What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge’?
• Isa 3:15Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
• 1 Sam 1:8“Hannah, why are you crying?” her husband Elkanah asked. “Why won’t you eat? Why is your heart so grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

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