Acts 20:19

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

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

— WEB

“Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:”

— KJV

“serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and with trials which befell me by the plots of the Jews;”

— ASV

Cross-references

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Colossians 3:24 "knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ."
2 Corinthians 2:4 "For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might kno…"
Romans 12:11 "not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;"
Acts 20:3 "When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to ret…"
2 Corinthians 4:7-11 "But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves."
Acts 14:19-20 "But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city…"
2 Corinthians 3:5 "not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;"
2 Corinthians 12:7-10 "By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the f…"

Commentary

Serving the Lord--Jesus. with all humility . . . and many tears and temptations--Self-exaltation was unknown to him, and ease of mind: He "sowed in tears," from anxieties both on account of the converts from whom he "travailed in birth," and of the Jews, whose bitter hostility was perpetually plotting against him, interrupting his work and endangering his life.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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