Acts 9:16
For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name."
Acts 21:11
And coming to us, he took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit, 'This is how the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"
2 Corinthians 11:23-27
Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one--I am talking like a madman--with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death.
Isaiah 33:1
Ah, you destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed, you traitor, whom none has betrayed! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betraying, they will betray you.
Matthew 5:11
"Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
Matthew 10:21-25
Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,
Matthew 24:9
"Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.
John 15:20
Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
John 16:1-4
"I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away.
Acts 9:14
And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name."
Acts 20:22-23
And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there,
Acts 21:4
And having sought out the disciples, we stayed there for seven days. And through the Spirit they were telling Paul not to go on to Jerusalem.
1 Corinthians 4:9-13
For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.
2 Corinthians 6:4
but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities,
1 Thessalonians 3:3
that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this.
2 Timothy 1:12
which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me.
2 Timothy 2:9-10
for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound!
2 Timothy 3:11
my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra--which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued 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 upon you.
Revelation 1:9
I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.