2 Corinthians 11:28

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.

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.

So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia. From there they sailed to Cyprus.

But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.

they became aware of it and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.

For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

Please run now to meet her, and ask her, ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with your child?’ ” She answered, “It is well.”

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.

Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,

Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them.

He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies.

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.

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

But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in me.

For I testify about him that he has great zeal for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for those in Hierapolis.

The priest shall take from the meal offering its memorial, and shall burn it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?

“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm.

All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to you. The rams of Nebaioth will serve you. They will be accepted as offerings on my altar; and I will beautify my glorious house.

They shall bring all your brothers out of all the nations for an offering to Yahweh, on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules, and on camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says Yahweh, as the children of Israel bring their offering in a clean vessel into Yahweh’s house.

Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your sisters, your elder sisters and your younger; and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.

From beyond the rivers of Cush, my worshipers, even the daughter of my dispersed people, will bring my offering.

In Iconium, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.

delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

We have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the Good News is known throughout all the assemblies.

But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose.

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

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

saying, “What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”

Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.

Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”

Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?

and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are doing, and bring back news.”

All those who were around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, with animals, and with precious things, in addition to all that was willingly offered.

I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

Let’s go early up to the vineyards. Let’s see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.

Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says against the shepherds who feed my people: “You have scattered my flock, driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings,” says Yahweh.

For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me. I have filled the bow with Ephraim; and I will stir up your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, and will make you like the sword of a mighty man.

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?

I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

An angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him.

Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let’s go into Judea again.”

With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.”

When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.

Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.

When he had gone through those parts, and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece.

When he had gone up, and had broken bread and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even until break of day, he departed.

“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;

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

For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

who risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

So although I wrote to you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be revealed in you in the sight of God.

and all the brothers who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:

That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

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

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,

But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,

longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.