2 Timothy 3:11

⁹ But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.

¹⁰ But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,

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.

¹² Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

¹³ But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and 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.

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Original text and word study

Cross references

Psalms 34:19
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
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Acts 14:5–6
And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use them despitefully, and to stone them,
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2 Corinthians 11:23–28
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
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Acts 13:45
But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
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Acts 14:19–21
And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.
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2 Peter 2:9
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
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Acts 13:50–51
But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
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Acts 14:1–2
And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.
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