Acts 9:16

Ananias Sent To Saul

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, "Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel. ¹⁶ For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake." ¹⁷ Ananias departed, and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, "Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me, that you may receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit."

For My Name

For My Sake

Great Things

Acts 21:11

Coming to us, and taking Paul's belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit: 'So will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"

2 Corinthians 11:23-27

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

Isaiah 33:1

Woe to you who destroy, but you weren't destroyed; and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have made an end of betrayal, you will be betrayed.

Matthew 5:11

"Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Matthew 10:21-25

"Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

Matthew 24:9

Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name's sake.

John 15:20

Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

John 16:1-4

"These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn't be caused to stumble.

Acts 9:14

Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name."

Acts 20:22-23

Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;

Acts 21:4

Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

1 Corinthians 4:9-13

For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

2 Corinthians 6:4

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

1 Thessalonians 3:3

that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

2 Timothy 1:12

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

2 Timothy 2:9-10

in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God's word isn't chained.

2 Timothy 3:11

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.

1 Peter 4:14

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

Revelation 1:9

I John, your brother and partner with you in oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God's Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.