Acts 21:13
But Paul replied, “◄Please stop crying and trying to discourage me [IDM] from going!/Why are you crying and trying to discourage me [IDM] from going?► [RHQ] I am willing to be put { for people to put me} in prison and also to be killed { for them to kill me} in Jerusalem because I serve [MTY] the Lord Jesus.”
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1 Samuel 15:14But Samuel replied, “If that is true, why is it that I hear cattle mooing and I hear sheep bleating?”
Isaiah 3:15You should stop [RHQ] crushing my people! It is as though you are pushing the faces of poor people into the dirt!” That is what the Commander of the armies of angels says.
Jonah 1:6Then the captain went down to where Jonah was sleeping soundly. He awoke him and said to him, “◄How can you sleep during a storm like this?/You should not be sleeping during a storm like this► [RHQ]! Get up and pray to your god! Perhaps he will pity us and save us, in order that we will not drown!” But Jonah refused to do that.
Acts 9:16I myself will tell him that he must often suffer greatly because of telling people about me [MTY].”
Acts 20:37They all cried a lot, and they hugged Paul and kissed him.
1 Corinthians 15:31My fellow believers, every day I am in danger of being killed {people killing me}! That is as true as it is that I am pleased with you because of your close relationship with Christ Jesus our Lord.
Matthew Henry on Acts 21:9-15
The Prophecy of Agabus; Paul's Adherence to His Resolution to Visit Jerusalem. 8 And the next day we that were of Paul's company departed, and came unto Cæsarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him. 9 And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy. 10 And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judæa a certain prophet, named Agabus. 11 And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and… Read the whole commentary →