Acts 9:16

Ananias Sent To Saul

¹⁵ And the Lord said to him, Go, for this man is an elect vessel to me, to bear my name before both nations and kings and the sons of Israel: ¹⁶ for I will shew to him how much he must suffer for my name. ¹⁷ And Ananias went and entered into the house; and laying his hands upon him he said, Saul, brother, the Lord has sent me, Jesus that appeared to thee in the way in which thou camest, that thou mightest see, and be filled with the Holy Spirit.

For My Name

For My Sake

Great Things

Acts 21:11

and coming to us and taking the girdle of Paul, and having bound his own hands and feet, said, Thus saith the Holy Spirit, The man whose this girdle is shall the Jews thus bind in Jerusalem, and deliver him up into the hands of the Gentiles.

2 Corinthians 11:23-27

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as being beside myself) I above measure so; in labours exceedingly abundant, in stripes to excess, in prisons exceedingly abundant, in deaths oft.

Isaiah 33:1

Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and that dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! When thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; when thou shalt make an end of dealing treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.

Matthew 5:11

Blessed are ye when they may reproach and persecute you, and say every wicked thing against you, lying, for my sake.

Matthew 10:21-25

But brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents and shall put them to death;

Matthew 24:9

Then shall they deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you; and ye will be hated of all the nations for my name's sake.

John 15:20

Remember the word which I said unto you, The bondman is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep also yours.

John 16:1-4

These things I have spoken unto you that ye may not be offended.

Acts 9:14

and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call upon thy name.

Acts 20:22-23

And now, behold, bound in my spirit I go to Jerusalem, not knowing what things shall happen to me in it;

Acts 21:4

And having found out the disciples, we remained there seven days; who said to Paul by the Spirit not to go up to Jerusalem.

1 Corinthians 4:9-13

For I think that God has set us the apostles for the last, as appointed to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

2 Corinthians 6:4

but in everything commending ourselves as God's ministers, in much endurance, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits,

1 Thessalonians 3:3

that no one might be moved by these afflictions. (For yourselves know that we are set for this;

2 Timothy 1:12

For which cause also I suffer these things; but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep for that day the deposit I have entrusted to him.

2 Timothy 2:9-10

in which I suffer even unto bonds as an evil-doer: but the word of God is not bound.

2 Timothy 3:11

persecutions, sufferings: what sufferings happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what persecutions I endured; and the Lord delivered me out of all.

1 Peter 4:14

If ye are reproached in the name of Christ, blessed are ye; for the Spirit of glory and the Spirit of God rests upon you: on their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

Revelation 1:9

I John, your brother and fellow-partaker in the tribulation and kingdom and patience, in Jesus, was in the island called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus.