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Acts Chapter 20 verse 19 Holy Bible

ASV Acts 20:19

serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and with trials which befell me by the plots of the Jews;
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BBE Acts 20:19

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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DARBY Acts 20:19

serving the Lord with all lowliness, and tears, and temptations, which happened to me through the plots of the Jews;
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KJV Acts 20:19

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:
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WBT Acts 20:19

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WEB Acts 20:19

serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;
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YLT Acts 20:19

serving the Lord with all humility, and many tears, and temptations, that befell me in the counsels of the Jews against `me';
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 19. - Lowliness for humility, A.V.; tears for many tears, A.V. and T.R.; with trials for temptations, A.V.; plots for lying in wait, A.V. Plots (ἐπιβουλαῖς); comp. ver. 3, and note. There is no special account of Jewish plots in St. Luke's narrative of St. Paul's sojourn at Ephesus. But from Acts 19:9, 13, and probably 33, we may gather how hostile the unbelieving Jews were to him.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(19) Serving the Lord with all humility of mind . . .--The participle exactly answers to the epithet of the "servant" or "slave" of Christ which St. Paul so often uses of himself (Romans 1:1; Galatians 1:10; Philippians 1:1; Titus 1:1). The "tears," too, are characteristic of the Apostle, whose intense sensitiveness and sympathy had not been hardened into a Stoic apathy, and therefore found vent in a form which the Stoic would have scorned as unmanly. (Comp. Acts 20:31; 2Corinthians 2:4.) Epictetus (Enchirid. c. 2) barely allowed a follower of wisdom to mourn outwardly with those who mourned, and added the warning: "Take heed that thou mourn not inwardly." . . .