Bible Cross References
we were
1 Thessalonians 3:8
because now we really live if you stand firm in your life in union with the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 3:9
Now we can give thanks to our God for you. We thank him for the joy we have in his presence because of you.
2 Corinthians 1:4
He helps us in all our troubles, so that we are able to help others who have all kinds of troubles, using the same help that we ourselves have received from God.
2 Corinthians 7:6
But God, who encourages the downhearted, encouraged us with the coming of Titus.
2 Corinthians 7:7
It was not only his coming that cheered us, but also his report of how you encouraged him. He told us how much you want to see me, how sorry you are, how ready you are to defend me; and so I am even happier now.
2 Corinthians 7:13
That is why we were encouraged. Not only were we encouraged; how happy Titus made us with his happiness over the way in which all of you helped to cheer him up!
2 John 1:4
How happy I was to find that some of your children live in the truth, just as the Father commanded us.
in all
Acts 17:4-10
4
Some of them were convinced and joined Paul and Silas; so did many of the leading women and a large group of Greeks who worshiped God.
5
But some Jews were jealous and gathered worthless loafers from the streets and formed a mob. They set the whole city in an uproar and attacked the home of a man named Jason, in an attempt to find Paul and Silas and bring them out to the people.
6
But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some other believers before the city authorities and shouted, "These men have caused trouble everywhere! Now they have come to our city,
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and Jason has kept them in his house. They are all breaking the laws of the Emperor, saying that there is another king, whose name is Jesus."
8
With these words they threw the crowd and the city authorities in an uproar.
9
The authorities made Jason and the others pay the required amount of money to be released, and then let them go.
10
As soon as night came, the believers sent Paul and Silas to Berea. When they arrived, they went to the synagogue.
1 Corinthians 4:9-13
9
For it seems to me that God has given the very last place to us apostles, like people condemned to die in public as a spectacle for the whole world of angels and of human beings.
10
For Christ's sake we are fools; but you are wise in union with Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! We are despised, but you are honored!
11
To this very moment we go hungry and thirsty; we are clothed in rags; we are beaten; we wander from place to place;
12
we wear ourselves out with hard work. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure;
13
when we are insulted, we answer back with kind words. We are no more than this world's garbage; we are the scum of the earth to this very moment!
2 Corinthians 11:23-28
23
Are they Christ's servants? I sound like a madman---but I am a better servant than they are! I have worked much harder, I have been in prison more times, I have been whipped much more, and I have been near death more often.
24
Five times I was given the thirty-nine lashes by the Jews;
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three times I was whipped by the Romans; and once I was stoned. I have been in three shipwrecks, and once I spent twenty-four hours in the water.
26
In my many travels I have been in danger from floods and from robbers, in danger from my own people and from Gentiles; there have been dangers in the cities, dangers in the wilds, dangers on the high seas, and dangers from false friends.
27
There has been work and toil; often I have gone without sleep; I have been hungry and thirsty; I have often been without enough food, shelter, or clothing.
28
And not to mention other things, every day I am under the pressure of my concern for all the churches.
2 Timothy 3:10-12
10
But you have followed my teaching, my conduct, and my purpose in life; you have observed my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,
11
my persecutions, and my sufferings. You know all that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra, the terrible persecutions I endured! But the Lord rescued me from them all.
12
Everyone who wants to live a godly life in union with Christ Jesus will be persecuted;