2 Timothy 3:11

⁹ But they will not advance much further. For just like Jannes and Jambres, their folly will be plain to everyone.

¹⁰ You, however, have observed my teaching, my conduct, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my perseverance,

my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

¹² Indeed, all who desire to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

¹³ while evil men and imposters go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
KJV: Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
WEB: persecutions, and sufferings—those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.
ASV: persecutions, sufferings. What things befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me.
DARBY: persecutions, sufferings: what [sufferings] happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what persecutions I endured; and the Lord delivered me out of all.
BLB: persecutions, sufferings, such as happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what manner of persecutions I bore up under! And the Lord delivered me out of all.

ÅB: mine forfølgelser, mine lidelser, sådanne som møtte meg i Antiokia, i Ikonium, i Lystra, sådanne forfølgelser som jeg har utholdt, og Herren har fridd meg ut av dem alle sammen.
OTB: forfølgelser og lidelser, slik som hendte meg i Antiokia, i Ikonium og i Lystra—hvilke forfølgelser jeg utholdt, og ut av dem alle reddet Herren meg!
B1930: mine forfølgelser, mine lidelser, sådanne som møtte mig i Antiokia, i Ikonium, i Lystra, sådanne forfølgelser som jeg har utholdt, og Herren har fridd mig ut av dem alle sammen.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Psalms 34:19
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.
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Acts 14:5–6
But when the Gentiles and Jews, together with their rulers, set out to mistreat and stone them,
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2 Corinthians 11:23–28
Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.
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Acts 13:45
But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.
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Acts 14:19–21
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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2 Peter 2:9
if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
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Acts 13:50–51
The Jews, however, incited the religious women of prominence and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their district.
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Acts 14:1–2
At Iconium, Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue, where they spoke so well that a great number of Jews and Greeks believed.
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