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2 Timothy 3:11

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persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. Out of them all the Lord delivered me.

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Antioch of Pisidia, Iconium, and Lystra were cities in southern Galatia (modern central-southern Turkey) visited by Paul on his first missionary journey. They matter here because Timothy likely knew of Paul’s persecutions in these places, where God preserved him despite violent opposition to the gospel.

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2 Timothy 3:11 mentions Antioch, Iconium and Lystra.

Antioch · Dosseman
Iconium · Murat Feyzifar
Lystra · Dosseman

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