my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus,.... All that live according to the will of God revealed in his word; and to the glory of God, as the end of all their actions; and which the grace of God in the Gospel, and in their own hearts, teaches them; and who have the principles of a godly life from Christ, and derive...
Verse 11. Persecutions. On the meaning of this word, . Afflictions. Trials of other kinds than those which arose from persecutions. The apostle met them everywhere. . Which came unto me at Antioch. The Antioch here referred to is not the place of that name in Syria, ; but a city of the same name in Pisidia, in Asia Minor. . Paul there suffered persecution from the Jews. .
Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of [them] all the Lord delivered me. (c) Which is in Pisidia.