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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 an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God;
¹⁰but by God's grace I am what I am, and his grace that [was] towards me became not empty, but I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet not I but the grace of God that [was] with me. (1 Cor. 15:9‑10)

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

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2 Cor. 4:8‑11• ⁸in everything being afflicted, yet not straitened, sorely yet not utterly perplexed,
⁹persecuted yet not forsaken, cast down yet 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 that live are ever being delivered up unto death for Jesus' sake, 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, and a plot being laid against him by the Jews, as he was about to sail for Syria, he determined to return 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 anyone serve me, let him follow me, and where I am, there also my servant shall be; if anyone serve me, him will my Father honour. (John 12:26)

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Rom. 1:1,9• ¹Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, set apart unto God's gospel,
⁹For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you, always at my prayers (Rom. 1:1,9)

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Rom. 12:11• ¹¹in diligence not slothful, in spirit fervent, serving the Lord; (Rom. 12:11)

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Gal. 1:10• ¹⁰For am I now conciliating men or God? or do I seek to please men? [For] if any longer I were pleasing men, Christ's bondservant I should not be. (Gal. 1:10)

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Eph. 6:7• ⁷with good-will doing service as to the Lord and not to men; (Eph. 6:7)

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Col. 3:24• ²⁴knowing that from [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 report concerning us what sort of entrance we had unto you; and how ye turned unto 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 obtained like precious faith with us in virtue of [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 sitteth on the throne shall 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 an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God;
¹⁰but by God's grace I am what I am, and his grace that [was] towards me became not empty, but I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet not I but the grace of God that [was] with me. (1 Cor. 15:9‑10)

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

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

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

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Gal. 4:13‑14• ¹³but ye know that in weakness of the flesh I preached to you the first time;
¹⁴and my temptation which was in my flesh ye slighted not nor loathed, but as an angel of God ye received me(as Christ Jesus. (Gal. 4:13‑14)

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

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Psa. 119:136• (Psa. 119:136)

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Jer. 9:1• (Jer. 9:1)

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Jer. 13:17• (Jer. 13:17)

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Luke 19:41• ⁴¹And when he drew near, on 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 should be grieved, but that ye may know the love that I have very abundantly unto you. (2 Cor. 2:4)

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

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2 Tim. 1:4• ⁴night and day longing 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, b God set us the apostles last as devoted to death, because we became a spectacle to the world, to both angels and men:
¹⁰we, fools for Christ, but ye prudent in Christ; we weak, but ye strong; ye illustrious, but we disgraced.
¹¹Until the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked and are buffeted and are homeless wanderers,
¹²and we toil, working with our own hands; reviled, we bless, persecuted, we suffer;
¹³slandered, we beseech. We became as the world's scum, off-scouring of all, until now. (1 Cor. 4:9‑13)

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2 Cor. 4:7‑11• ⁷But we have this treasure in earthenware vessels, that the surpassingness of the power may be God's, and not of us,
⁸in everything being afflicted, yet not straitened, sorely yet not utterly perplexed,
⁹persecuted yet not forsaken, cast down yet 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 that live are ever being delivered up unto death for Jesus' sake, 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? (Beside myself I speak) I above measure; in labours very abundantly, in prisons very abundantly, in stripes exceedingly, in deaths often.
²⁴From Jews five times I received forty [stripes] save one;
²⁵thrice was I beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
²⁶by wayfarings often, by dangers of rivers, by dangers of robbers, by dangers from countrymen, by dangers from Gentiles, by dangers in town, by dangers in desert, by dangers at sea, by dangers among false brethren, by toil and trouble;
²⁷in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
²⁸Apart from things without, my pressing care day by day, the concern for all the assemblies.
²⁹Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I burn not?
³⁰If I must boast, I will boast in the matters of 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, now for a little (if it is needful) put to grief in manifold trials, (1 Peter 1:6)

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Acts 20:3• ³And having spent three months, and a plot being laid against him by the Jews, as he was about to sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia. (Acts 20:3)

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Acts 9:23‑25• ²³And when many days were fulfilled, the Jews consulted together to kill him;
²⁴but their plot became known to Saul. And they were watching the gates also 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 rank that worshipped, and the chiefs of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and sent them out of their borders.
⁵¹But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium. (Acts 13:50‑51)

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Acts 14:5‑6,19‑20• ⁵And when an effort was made of both the Gentiles and Jews with their rulers to outrage and stone them,
⁶becoming aware [of it] they fled unto the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, and Derbe, and the [country] round about,
¹⁹But there arrived Jews from Antioch and Iconium and having persuaded the crowds and stoned Paul, they dragged [him] without the city, supposing that he was dead.
²⁰But as the disciples encircled him he rose up and entered into the city. And on the morrow, he went forth 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, took unto them certain wicked men of the rabble, and gathering a crowd, set the city in confusion, and besetting 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 by Paul in Beroea also, they came thither also, stirring up and troubling the crowds. (Acts 17:5,13)

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2 Cor. 11:26• ²⁶by wayfarings often, by dangers of rivers, by dangers of robbers, by dangers from countrymen, by dangers from Gentiles, by dangers in town, by dangers in desert, by dangers at sea, by dangers among false brethren, by toil and trouble; (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;

WK Translation Notes

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