2 Corinthians 11:27

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you,

He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of Yahweh’s house.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

and they fetched Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard. They gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

He said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

But 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.

and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.

This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace

Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.

But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you,

For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

For 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.

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

He said to the people, “Be ready by the third day. Don’t have sexual relations with a woman.”

All her people sigh. They seek bread. They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh their soul. “Look, Yahweh, and see; for I have become despised.”

They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.

Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he will surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.”

Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his room, and the bride out of her room.

But she said, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”

He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.

Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”

Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

He entered into the synagogue and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning God’s Kingdom.

From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

Now, 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.

When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.

Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?

Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

If then I don’t know the meaning of the sound, I would be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks would be a foreigner to me.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,

and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.

For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.

Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am restricted. I can’t go into Yahweh’s house.

“My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon. He is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.”

But I will deliver you in that day,” says Yahweh; “and you will not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid.

In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting.”

Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.

The multitude rose up together against them and the magistrates tore their clothes from them, then commanded them to be beaten with rods.

serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

Lay hands hastily on no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins. Keep yourself pure.

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated—

Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.

He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak. He said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” He said, “I am.”

So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her, and said, “Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink.”

My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.

Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

But what did you go out to see? A man in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses.

But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.

But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.”

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.

As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”

The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire and received us all, because of the present rain and because of the cold.

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

Bring the cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus when you come, and the books, especially the parchments.

“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.