Acts 9:16
For I am going to show him what he will have to endure for my sake."
Acts 21:11
He came to see us and took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands with it, and said, "This is what the holy Spirit says: 'The Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt like this, and will hand him over to the heathen!' "
2 Corinthians 11:23-27
If they are Christian workers?? am talking like a madman!?? am a better one! with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, vastly worse beatings, and in frequent danger of death.
Matthew 5:11
"Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and falsely say everything bad of you, on my account.
Matthew 10:21-25
One brother will give up another to death, and a father his child, and children will turn against their parents, and have them put to death.
Matthew 24:9
Then they will hand you over to persecution and they will put you to death, and you will be hated by all the heathen because you bear my name.
John 15:20
Remember what I said to you: No slave is greater than his master. If they have persecuted me they will persecute you too. If they have observed my teaching, they will observe yours too.
John 16:1-4
"I have told you this to keep you from faltering.
Acts 9:14
He is here with authority to arrest everyone who calls upon your name."
Acts 20:22-23
I am here now on my way to Jerusalem, for the Spirit compels me to go there, though I do not know what will happen to me there,
Acts 21:4
So we looked up the disciples there and stayed a week with them. Instructed by the Spirit, they warned Paul not to set foot in Jerusalem.
1 Corinthians 4:9-13
For it seems to me, God has exhibited us apostles at the very end of the procession, like the men condemned to die in the arena. For we have become a spectacle to the whole universe, angels as well as men.
2 Corinthians 6:4
On the contrary, as a servant of God I try in every way to commend myself to them, through my great endurance in troubles, difficulties, hardships,
1 Thessalonians 3:3
and encourage you not to be led astray, any of you, in all these troubles. You know yourselves that this is what we must expect,
2 Timothy 1:12
This is why I am suffering as I am, but I am not ashamed of it, for I know whom I have trusted and I am sure that he is able to guard what I have intrusted to him for that Day.
2 Timothy 2:9-10
for the sake of which I even suffer imprisonment as a criminal. But God's message is not imprisoned!
2 Timothy 3:11
my persecutions, my sufferings??he things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra, the persecutions I endured; yet the Lord brought me safely out of them all.
1 Peter 4:14
If you are being abused for the sake of Christ, you are blessed, because the glorious Spirit of God is resting upon you.
Revelation 1:9
I, John, your brother and companion in the distress, the kingdom, and the endurance that Jesus brings, found myself on the island called Patmos, for uttering God's message and testifying to Jesus.