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Acts 20:24
But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
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Philippians 2:17
Yes, and if I am being poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.
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Philippians 1:20-21
according to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
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Romans 8:35-37
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?As it is written:“ For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
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2 Timothy 4 6
For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand.
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1 Corinthians 15 31
I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
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Philippians 2:26
since he was longing for you all, and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick.
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Colossians 1:24
I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the church,
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2 Peter 1 14
knowing that shortly I must put off my tent, just as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me.
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Acts 20:37
Then they all wept freely, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,
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Revelation 3:10
Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
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Revelation 12:11
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.
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Acts 5:41
So they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name.
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2 Corinthians 4 10-2 Corinthians 4 17
always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.So then death is working in us, but life in you.And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written,“ I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak,knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus, and will present us with you.For all things are for your sakes, that grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,
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2 Timothy 2 4-2 Timothy 2 6
No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.And also if anyone competes in athletics, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.The hardworking farmer must be first to partake of the crops.
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2 Timothy 1 4
greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears, that I may be filled with joy,
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Acts 9:16
For I will show him how many things he must suffer for My name’s sake.”
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2 Corinthians 11 23-2 Corinthians 11 27
Are they ministers of Christ?— I speak as a fool— I am more: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often.From the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one.Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the deep;in journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of my own countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness—
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Ezekiel 18:2
“ What do you mean when you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying:‘ The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children’s teeth are set on edge’?
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Jonah 1:6
So the captain came to him, and said to him,“ What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God; perhaps your God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”
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Isaiah 3:15
What do you mean by crushing My people And grinding the faces of the poor?” Says the Lord GOD of hosts.
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1 Samuel 15 14
But Samuel said,“ What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?”
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1 Samuel 1 8
Then Elkanah her husband said to her,“ Hannah, why do you weep? Why do you not eat? And why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”