2 Corinthians 11:23

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2 Corinthians 11:21–25 · Berean Standard Bible

21 To my shame I concede that we were too weak for that! Speaking as a fool, however, I can match what anyone else dares to boast about.

22 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.

23 Are 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.

24 Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.

25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.

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1 Corinthians 4:1

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1 Thessalonians 3:2

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1 Timothy 4:6

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2 Corinthians 11:24

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2 Corinthians 11:25

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in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;

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I will show him how much he must suffer for My name.”

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I only know that in town after town the Holy Spirit warns me that chains and afflictions await me.

Acts 21:11

Coming over to us, he took Paul’s belt, bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews of Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and hand him over to the Gentiles.’”

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Acts 24:27

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Since they were staying several days, Festus laid out Paul’s case before the king: “There is a certain man whom Felix left in prison.

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As a prisoner in the Lord, then, I urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling you have received:

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for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it fearlessly, as I should.

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for which I suffer to the extent of being chained like a criminal. But the word of God cannot be chained!

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1 Corinthians 15:31

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Now 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.