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Serving the Lord with all humilityw of mind, and with many tearsx, and temptationsy, which befell me by the lyingz in wait of the Jews:

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1 Cor. 15:9‑10• ⁹For *I* am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called apostle, because I have persecuted the assembly of God.
¹⁰But by God's grace I am what I am; and his grace, which was towards me, has not been vain; but I have laboured more abundantly than they all, but not *I*, but the grace of God which was with me. (1 Cor. 15:9‑10)

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Phil. 3:18• ¹⁸(for many walk of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: (Phil. 3:18)

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2 Cor. 4:8‑11• ⁸every way afflicted, but not straitened; seeing no apparent issue, but our way not entirely shut up;
⁹persecuted, but not abandoned; cast down, but not destroyed;
¹⁰always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body;
¹¹for we who live are always delivered unto death on account of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh; (2 Cor. 4:8‑11)

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Acts 20:3• ³And having spent three months there, a treacherous plot against him having been set on foot by the Jews, as he was going to sail to Syria, the resolution was adopted of returning through Macedonia. (Acts 20:3)

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Serving.

Acts 27:23• ²³For an angel of the God, whose I am and whom I serve, stood by me this night, (Acts 27:23)

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John 12:26• ²⁶If any one serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there also shall be *my* servant. And if any one serve me, him shall the Father honour. (John 12:26)

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Rom. 1:1,9• ¹Paul, bondman of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, separated to God's glad tidings,
⁹For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the glad tidings of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you, (Rom. 1:1,9)

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Rom. 12:11• ¹¹as to diligent zealousness, not slothful; in spirit fervent; serving the Lord. (Rom. 12:11)

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Gal. 1:10• ¹⁰For do I now seek to satisfy men or God? or do I seek to please men? If I were yet pleasing men, I were not Christ's bondman. (Gal. 1:10)

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Eph. 6:7• ⁷serving with good will as to the Lord, and not to men; (Eph. 6:7)

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Col. 3:24• ²⁴knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance; ye serve the Lord Christ. (Col. 3:24)

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1 Thess. 1:9• ⁹for they themselves relate concerning us what entering in we had to you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God, (1 Thess. 1:9)

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2 Peter 1:1• ¹Simon Peter, bondman and apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have received like precious faith with us through the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ: (2 Peter 1:1)

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Rev. 7:15• ¹⁵Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple, and he that sits upon the throne shall spread his tabernacle over them. (Rev. 7:15)

with all.

1 Cor. 15:9‑10• ⁹For *I* am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called apostle, because I have persecuted the assembly of God.
¹⁰But by God's grace I am what I am; and his grace, which was towards me, has not been vain; but I have laboured more abundantly than they all, but not *I*, but the grace of God which was with me. (1 Cor. 15:9‑10)

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2 Cor. 3:5• ⁵not that we are competent of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves, but our competency is of God; (2 Cor. 3:5)

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2 Cor. 7:5• ⁵For indeed, when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted in every way; without combats, within fears. (2 Cor. 7:5)

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2 Cor. 12:7‑10• ⁷And that I might not be exalted by the exceeding greatness of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn for the flesh, a messenger of Satan that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted.
⁸For this I thrice besought the Lord that it might depart from me.
⁹And he said to me, My grace suffices thee; for my power is perfected in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather boast in my weaknesses, that the power of the Christ may dwell upon me.
¹⁰Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in straits, for Christ: for when I am weak, then I am powerful. (2 Cor. 12:7‑10)

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Gal. 4:13‑14• ¹³But ye know that in weakness of the flesh I announced the glad tidings to you at the first;
¹⁴and my temptation, which was in my flesh, ye did not slight nor reject with contempt; but ye received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus. (Gal. 4:13‑14)

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Acts 20:31• ³¹Wherefore watch, remembering that for three years, night and day, I ceased not admonishing each one of you with tears. (Acts 20:31)

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Psa. 119:136• ¹³⁶Mine eyes run down with streams of water, because they keep not thy law. (Psa. 119:136)

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Jer. 9:1• ¹Oh that my head were waters, and mine eye a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! (Jer. 9:1)

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Jer. 13:17• ¹⁷And if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Jehovah's flock is gone into captivity. (Jer. 13:17)

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Luke 19:41• ⁴¹And as he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it, (Luke 19:41)

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2 Cor. 2:4• ⁴For out of much tribulation and distress of heart I wrote to you, with many tears; not that ye may be grieved, but that ye may know the love which I have very abundantly towards you. (2 Cor. 2:4)

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Phil. 3:18• ¹⁸(for many walk of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: (Phil. 3:18)

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2 Tim. 1:4• ⁴earnestly desiring to see thee, remembering thy tears, that I may be filled with joy; (2 Tim. 1:4)

temptations.

1 Cor. 4:9‑13• ⁹For I think that God has set us the apostles for the last, as appointed to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
¹⁰*We* are fools for Christ's sake, but *ye* prudent in Christ: *we* weak, but *ye* strong: *ye* glorious, but *we* in dishonour.
¹¹To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are in nakedness, and buffeted, and wander without a home,
¹²and labour, working with our own hands. Railed at, we bless; persecuted, we suffer it;
¹³insulted, we entreat: we are become as the offscouring of the world, the refuse of all, until now. (1 Cor. 4:9‑13)

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2 Cor. 4:7‑11• ⁷But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the surpassingness of the power may be of God, and not from us:
⁸every way afflicted, but not straitened; seeing no apparent issue, but our way not entirely shut up;
⁹persecuted, but not abandoned; cast down, but not destroyed;
¹⁰always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body;
¹¹for we who live are always delivered unto death on account of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh; (2 Cor. 4:7‑11)

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2 Cor. 11:23‑30• ²³Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as being beside myself) *I* above measure so; in labours exceedingly abundant, in stripes to excess, in prisons exceedingly abundant, in deaths oft.
²⁴From the Jews five times have I received forty stripes, save one.
²⁵Thrice have I been scourged, once I have been stoned, three times I have suffered shipwreck, a night and day I passed in the deep:
²⁶in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the nations, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren;
²⁷in labour and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
²⁸Besides those things that are without, the crowd of cares pressing on me daily, the burden of all the assemblies.
²⁹Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I burn not?
³⁰If it is needful to boast, I will boast in the things which concern my infirmity. (2 Cor. 11:23‑30)

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James 1:2• ²Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various temptations, (James 1:2)

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1 Peter 1:6• ⁶Wherein ye exult, for a little while at present, if needed, put to grief by various trials, (1 Peter 1:6)

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Acts 20:3• ³And having spent three months there, a treacherous plot against him having been set on foot by the Jews, as he was going to sail to Syria, the resolution was adopted of returning through Macedonia. (Acts 20:3)

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Acts 9:23‑25• ²³Now when many days were fulfilled, the Jews consulted together to kill him.
²⁴But their plot became known to Saul. And they watched also the gates both day and night, that they might kill him;
²⁵but the disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket. (Acts 9:23‑25)

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Acts 13:50‑51• ⁵⁰But the Jews excited the women of the upper classes who were worshippers, and the first people of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their coasts.
⁵¹But they, having shaken off the dust of their feet against them, came to Iconium. (Acts 13:50‑51)

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Acts 14:5‑6,19‑20• ⁵And when an assault was making, both of those of the nations and the Jews with their rulers, to use them ill and stone them,
⁶they, being aware of it, fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the surrounding country,
¹⁹But there came Jews from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds and stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing him to have died.
²⁰But while the disciples encircled him, he rose up and entered into the city. And on the morrow he went away with Barnabas to Derbe. (Acts 14:5‑6,19‑20)

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Acts 17:5,13• ⁵But the Jews having been stirred up to jealousy, and taken to themselves certain wicked men of the lowest rabble, and having got a crowd together, set the city in confusion; and having beset the house of Jason sought to bring them out to the people;
¹³But when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that the word of God was announced in Berea also by Paul, they came there also, stirring up the crowds. (Acts 17:5,13)

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2 Cor. 11:26• ²⁶in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the nations, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren; (2 Cor. 11:26)

• How often that service puffs up the novice! What dangers surround even the most experienced! Lowliness of mind is of all moment in it, and the Lord helps by the very difficulties and griefs which accompany it. (“Acts 20:18-21” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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servinga the Lord with all lowliness, and tears, and temptations, which happened to me through the plots of the Jews;

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "serving as a bondman."

W. Kelly Translation

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serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, anda tears, and temptations, which befell me by the plots of the Jews;

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T. R. adds "many," but the oldest MSS. omit.