Acts 20:19

¹⁷ From Miletus, Paul sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church.

¹⁸ When they came to him, he said, “You know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I arrived in the province of Asia.

I served the Lord with great humility and with tears, especially in the trials that came upon me through the plots of the Jews.

²⁰ I did not shrink back from declaring anything that was helpful to you as I taught you publicly and from house to house,

²¹ testifying to Jews and Greeks alike about repentance to God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Her forteller Bibelen en historie om noen andre. Spør deg selv hva den kan si oss i dag. Les gjerne versene rundt også, for sammenhengen gir ofte mer enn ett vers alene.

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ÅB: at jeg tjente Herren med all ydmykhet og under tårer og prøvelser som jeg måtte utstå ved jødenes etterstrebelser;
OTB: Jeg tjente Herren med stor ydmykhet og med tårer, og utholdt prøvelsene som kom over meg gjennom jødenes planer.
B1930: at jeg tjente Herren med all ydmykhet og under tårer og prøvelser som jeg måtte utstå ved jødenes efterstrebelser;

BSB: I served the Lord with great humility and with tears, especially in the trials that came upon me through the plots of the Jews.
KJV: 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:
WEB: serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;
ASV: serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and with trials which befell me by the plots of the Jews;
DARBY: serving the Lord with all lowliness, and tears, and temptations, which happened to me through the plots of the Jews;
BLB: serving the Lord with all humility and tears, and in trials having befallen me in the plots of the Jews;

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Colossians 3:24
because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.
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2 Corinthians 2:4
For through many tears I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart, not to grieve you but to let you know how much I love you.
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2 Corinthians 4:7–11
Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.
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Romans 12:11
Do not let your zeal subside; keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.
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Acts 20:3
where he stayed three months. And when the Jews formed a plot against him as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia.
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2 Corinthians 7:5
For when we arrived in Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were pressed from every direction—conflicts on the outside, fears within.
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2 Corinthians 12:7–10
or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
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Acts 14:19–20
Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and won over the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, presuming he was dead.
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