Acts 20:19 “I served the Lord with great humility and with tears, especially in th…”

Acts 20:19

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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:

World English Bible

serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

American Standard Version

serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and with trials which befell me by the plots of the Jews;

Geneva Bible 1599

Seruing the Lord with all modestie, and with many teares, and tentations, which came vnto me by the layings awaite of the Iewes,

Darby Translation

serving the Lord with all lowliness, and tears, and temptations, which happened to me through the plots of the Jews;

Young's Literal Translation

serving the Lord with all humility, and many tears, and temptations, that befell me in the counsels of the Jews against [me];

Bible in Basic English

Doing the Lord's work without pride, through all the sorrow and troubles which came on me because of the evil designs of the Jews:

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Cross references

“Serving”

Colossians 3:24 Romans 12:11 Galatians 1:10 Ephesians 6:7 Acts 27:23 John 12:26

Colossians 3:24 · BSB

because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

Romans 12:11 · BSB

Do not let your zeal subside; keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.

Galatians 1:10 · BSB

Am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Ephesians 6:7 · BSB

Serve with good will, as to the Lord and not to men,

Acts 27:23 · BSB

For just last night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood beside me

John 12:26 · BSB

If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, My servant will be as well. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.

“with all”

2 Corinthians 3:5 2 Corinthians 7:5 2 Corinthians 12:7–10 1 Corinthians 15:9 1 Corinthians 15:10 Galatians 4:13

2 Corinthians 3:5 · BSB

Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.

2 Corinthians 7:5 · BSB

For when we arrived in Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were pressed from every direction—conflicts on the outside, fears within.

2 Corinthians 12:7–10 · BSB

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.

1 Corinthians 15:9 · BSB

For I am the least of the apostles and am unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

1 Corinthians 15:10 · BSB

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

Galatians 4:13 · BSB

You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.

“many”

2 Corinthians 2:4 Jeremiah 13:17 Acts 20:31 Philippians 3:18 Psalm 119:136 Jeremiah 9:1

2 Corinthians 2:4 · BSB

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.

Jeremiah 13:17 · BSB

But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.

Acts 20:31 · BSB

Therefore be alert and remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.

Philippians 3:18 · BSB

For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

Psalm 119:136 · BSB

My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.

Jeremiah 9:1 · BSB

Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.

“temptations”

2 Corinthians 4:7–11 2 Corinthians 11:23–30 James 1:2 1 Corinthians 4:9–13 1 Peter 1:6

2 Corinthians 4:7–11 · BSB

Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.

2 Corinthians 11:23–30 · BSB

Are they servants of Christ? (I am speaking as if I were out of my mind.) I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.

James 1:2 · BSB

Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds,

1 Corinthians 4:9–13 · BSB

For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.

1 Peter 1:6 · BSB

In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials

“by the”

Acts 20:3 Acts 9:23–25 Acts 17:13 Acts 17:5 Acts 13:50 Acts 13:51

Acts 20:3 · BSB

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.

Acts 9:23–25 · BSB

After many days had passed, the Jews conspired to kill him,

Acts 17:13 · BSB

But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that Paul was also proclaiming the word of God in Berea, they went there themselves to incite and agitate the crowds.

Acts 17:5 · BSB

The Jews, however, became jealous. So they brought in some troublemakers from the marketplace, formed a mob, and sent the city into an uproar. They raided Jason’s house in search of Paul and Silas, hoping to bring them o…

Acts 13:50 · BSB

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.

Acts 13:51 · BSB

So they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

18When 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.

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

Read Acts 20