Acts 21:13
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13 Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”(A)
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Acts 20:24
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24 But I do not count my life of any value to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.(A)
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Philippians 2:17
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17 But even if I am being poured out as a libation over the sacrifice and the service of your faith, I rejoice, and I rejoice together with all of you;(A)
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Philippians 1:20-21
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20 It is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be put to shame in any way but that by my speaking with all boldness Christ will be exalted now as always in my body, whether by life or by death.(A) 21 For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain.
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Romans 8:35-37
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35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? 36 As it is written,
“For your sake we are being killed all day long;
we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.”(A)
37 No, in all these things we are more than victorious through him who loved us.(B)
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Revelation 12:11
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11 But they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony,
for they did not cling to life even in the face of death.(A)
Revelation 3:10
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10 Because you have kept my word of endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.(A)
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2 Peter 1:14
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14 since I know that my death[a] will come soon, as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.(A)
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- 1.14 Gk the putting off of my tent
2 Timothy 4:6
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6 As for me, I am already being poured out as a libation, and the time of my departure has come.(A)
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2 Timothy 2:4-6
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4 No one serving in the army gets entangled in everyday affairs; the soldier’s aim is to please the enlisting officer. 5 And in the case of an athlete, no one is crowned without competing according to the rules.(A) 6 It is the farmer who does the work who ought to have the first share of the crops.
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2 Timothy 1:4
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4 Recalling your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy.
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Colossians 1:24
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Paul’s Interest in the Colossians
24 I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church.
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Philippians 2:26
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26 for he has been longing for[a] all of you and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill.
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- 2.26 Other ancient authorities read longing to see
2 Corinthians 4:10-17
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10 always carrying around in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our bodies.(A) 11 For we who are living are always being handed over to death for Jesus’s sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our mortal flesh. 12 So death is at work in us but life in you.
13 But just as we have the same spirit of faith that is in accordance with scripture—“I believed, and so I spoke”—we also believe, and therefore we also speak,(B) 14 because we know that the one who raised Jesus[a] will also raise us with Jesus and will present us with you in his presence.(C) 15 Indeed, everything is for your sake, so that grace, when it has extended to more and more people, may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
Living by Faith
16 So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day.(D) 17 For our slight, momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure,(E)
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- 4.14 Other ancient authorities read Lord Jesus
1 Corinthians 15:31
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31 I die every day! That is as certain, brothers and sisters, as my boasting of you—a boast that I make in Christ Jesus our Lord.(A)
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Acts 20:37
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37 There was much weeping among them all; they embraced Paul and kissed him,(A)
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Acts 5:41
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41 As they left the council, they rejoiced that they were considered worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name.(A)
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2 Corinthians 11:23-27
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23 Are they ministers of Christ? I am talking like a madman—I am a better one: with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless floggings, and often near death.(A) 24 Five times I have received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.(B) 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I received a stoning. Three times I was shipwrecked; for a night and a day I was adrift at sea;(C) 26 on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from bandits, danger from my own people, danger from gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers and sisters;(D) 27 in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, hungry and thirsty, often without food,[a] cold and naked.(E)
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- 11.27 Gk with frequent fasting
Acts 9:16
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16 I myself will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.”(A)
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Jonah 1:6
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6 The captain came and said to him, “What are you doing sound asleep? Get up; call on your god! Perhaps the god will spare us a thought so that we do not perish.”(A)
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Ezekiel 18:2
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2 What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, “The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge”?(A)
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Isaiah 3:15
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15 What do you mean by crushing my people,
by grinding the face of the poor? says the Lord God of hosts.(A)
1 Samuel 15:14
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14 But Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of sheep in my ears and the lowing of cattle that I hear?”
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1 Samuel 1:8
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8 Her husband Elkanah said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why do you not eat? Why is your heart sad? Am I not more to you than ten sons?”(A)
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