Bible Verses About Paul

For I think God has been placing us emissaries on display at the tail of the parade, like men condemned to die in the public arena: we have become a spectacle before the whole universe, angels as well as men.

Till this very moment we go hungry and thirsty, we are dressed in rags, we are treated roughly, we wander from place to place,

we exhaust ourselves working with our own hands for our living. When we are cursed, we keep on blessing; when we are persecuted, we go on putting up with it;

when we are slandered, we continue making our appeal. We are the world’s garbage, the scum of the earth — yes, to this moment!

Am I not a free man? Am I not an emissary of the Messiah? Haven’t I seen Yeshua our Lord? And aren’t you yourselves the result of my work for the Lord?

Even if to others I am not an emissary, at least I am to you; for you are living proof that I am the Lord’s emissary.

and last of all he was seen by me, even though I was born at the wrong time.

For I am the least of all the emissaries, unfit to be called an emissary, because I persecuted the Messianic Community of God.

But I will remain in Ephesus until Shavu‘ot,

because a great and important door has opened for my work, and there are many people opposing me.

For, brothers, we want you to know about the trials we have undergone in the province of Asia. The burden laid on us was so far beyond what we could bear that we even despaired of living through it.

In our hearts we felt we were under sentence of death. However, this was to get us to rely not on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead!

He rescued us from such deadly peril, and he will rescue us again! The one in whom we have placed our hope will indeed continue to rescue us.

And you must add your help by praying for us; for the more people there are praying, the more people there will be to give thanks when their prayer for us is answered.

We have all kinds of troubles, but we are not crushed; we are perplexed, yet not in despair;

persecuted, yet not abandoned; knocked down, yet not destroyed.

We always carry in our bodies the dying of Yeshua, so that the life of Yeshua may be manifested in our bodies too.

For we who are alive are always being handed over to death for Yeshua’s sake, so that Yeshua’s life also might be manifested in our mortal bodies.

Thus death is at work in us but life in you.

On the contrary, we try to commend ourselves in every way as workers for God by continually enduring troubles, hardships, calamities,

beatings, imprisonments, riots, overwork, lack of sleep and food.

through being honored and dishonored, praised and blamed, considered deceptive and sincere,

unknown and famous. And we commend ourselves as God’s workers headed for death, yet look! we’re alive! as punished, yet not killed;

as having reason to be sad, yet always filled with joy; as poor, yet making many people rich; as having nothing, yet having everything!

Now it is I myself, Sha’ul, making an appeal to you with the meekness and forbearance that come from the Messiah, I who am considered timid when face-to-face with you but intimidating from a distance.