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Acts 20:19–20

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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:
And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house,
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From verse 19

  1. Colossians 3:24Rank 1 from verse 19
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    24Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

  2. 2 Corinthians 2:4Rank 2 from verse 19
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    4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

  3. 2 Corinthians 4:7–11Rank 3 from verse 19
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    7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

    8We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

    9Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

    10Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

    11For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

  4. Acts 20:3Rank 4 from verse 19
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    3And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.

  5. Romans 12:11Rank 5 from verse 19
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    11Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

  6. 2 Corinthians 12:7–10Rank 6 from verse 19
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    7And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

    8For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

    9And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

    10Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

  7. 2 Corinthians 3:5Rank 7 from verse 19
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    5Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

  8. 2 Corinthians 7:5Rank 8 from verse 19
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    5For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

  9. Acts 14:19–20Rank 9 from verse 19
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    19¶ 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.

    20Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.

  10. Jeremiah 13:17Rank 10 from verse 19
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    17But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the Lord’s flock is carried away captive.

  11. 2 Corinthians 11:23–30Rank 11 from verse 19
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    23Are 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.

    24Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.

    25Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;

    26In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

    27In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

    28Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

    29Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

    30If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.

  12. Acts 20:31Rank 12 from verse 19
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    31Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

  13. Ephesians 6:7Rank 13 from verse 19
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    7With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:

  14. Galatians 1:10Rank 14 from verse 19
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    10For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

  15. James 1:2Rank 15 from verse 19
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    2My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

  16. Philippians 3:18Rank 16 from verse 19
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    18(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

  17. 1 Corinthians 4:9–13Rank 17 from verse 19
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    9For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

    10We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.

    11Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;

    12And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

    13Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

  18. 1 Peter 1:6Rank 18 from verse 19
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    6Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

  19. 1 Thessalonians 1:9Rank 19 from verse 19
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    9For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;

  20. 2 Peter 1:1Rank 20 from verse 19
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    1SIMON Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:

  21. Acts 13:50–51Rank 21 from verse 19
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    50But 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.

    51But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.

  22. Acts 14:5–6Rank 22 from verse 19
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    5And 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,

    6They were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:

  23. Acts 17:13Rank 23 from verse 19
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    13But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people.

  24. Acts 27:23Rank 24 from verse 19
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    23For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,

  25. Acts 9:23–25Rank 25 from verse 19
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    23¶ And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him:

    24But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.

    25Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket.

  26. Galatians 4:13–14Rank 26 from verse 19
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    13Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

    14And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

  27. Jeremiah 9:1Rank 27 from verse 19
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    1OH that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

  28. John 12:26Rank 28 from verse 19
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    26If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.

  29. Luke 19:41Rank 29 from verse 19
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    41¶ And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,

  30. Psalms 119:136Rank 30 from verse 19
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    136Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.

  31. Romans 1:1Rank 31 from verse 19
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    1PAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,

  32. Romans 1:9Rank 32 from verse 19
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    9For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;

  33. 2 Timothy 1:4Rank 33 from verse 19
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    4Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;

  34. Revelation 7:15Rank 34 from verse 19
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    15Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.

  35. 1 Corinthians 15:9–10Rank 35 from verse 19
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    9For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

    10But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

  36. Acts 17:5Rank 36 from verse 19
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    5¶ But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

From verse 20

  1. Acts 20:27Rank 1 from verse 20
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    27For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

  2. 2 Timothy 4:2Rank 2 from verse 20
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    2Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

  3. Acts 5:42Rank 3 from verse 20
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    42And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.

  4. Acts 20:31Rank 4 from verse 20
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    31Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

  5. Colossians 1:28Rank 5 from verse 20
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    28Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:

  6. Deuteronomy 4:5Rank 6 from verse 20
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    5Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.

  7. Psalms 40:9–10Rank 7 from verse 20
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    9I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest.

    10I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

  8. 1 Corinthians 15:3Rank 8 from verse 20
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    3For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

  9. 1 Corinthians 12:7Rank 9 from verse 20
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    7But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.

  10. 1 Corinthians 14:6Rank 10 from verse 20
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    6Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?

  11. 2 Timothy 3:16–17Rank 11 from verse 20
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    16All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

    17That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

  12. Acts 2:46Rank 12 from verse 20
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    46And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,

  13. Ezekiel 33:7–9Rank 13 from verse 20
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    7¶ So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.

    8When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

    9Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.

  14. Mark 4:34Rank 14 from verse 20
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    34But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.

  15. Philippians 3:1Rank 15 from verse 20
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    1FINALLY, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.

  16. Acts 5:2Rank 16 from verse 20
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    2And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

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Acts 20:19

COMBINED MEANING

serving

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Present-participial or verbal-noun form of serve, meaning to work for, obey, attend, minister to, worship, or fulfil a purpose.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

Lord

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1. A title of God or Jesus Christ acknowledging authority and rule. 2. A respectful title or address for one in authority.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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humility

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Sense 1: Lowliness or humbleness of mind, opposed to pride and arrogance. Sense 2: An outward or self-chosen show of lowliness.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

mind

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Sense 1: The inward faculty and activity of understanding, thought, memory, attention, judgment, intention, purpose, desire, disposition, resolve, or consent; what one thinks, wills, regards, or sets attention upon. Sense 2: To mind is to attend to, regard, remember, purpose, or be disposed toward something.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

tears

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Drops of fluid shed from the eyes in weeping, grief, pain, or strong feeling.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

lying

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1. Reclining, resting, remaining, or being situated in a place. 2. Speaking or representing what is false or deceptive. 3. Lying with a person; having sexual intercourse.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

wait

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Sense 1: To remain in expectation or readiness. Sense 2: To attend or serve. Sense 3: As a noun, an ambush or concealed watch.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

DEFINED WORDS

Acts 20:20

COMBINED MEANING

back

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Sense 1: The rear part; a position or direction behind. Sense 2: A return to a former place or condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

shewed

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Past-tense or past-participial form of show (to reveal, declare, display, or make known).

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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house

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Sense 1: A building or dwelling. Sense 2: The people of a household or family. Sense 3: A lineage or family line. Sense 4: As a verb, to shelter, lodge, or provide a dwelling for.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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20:18And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons,

20:19Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:

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20:20And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house,

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20:21Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

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