Acts 9:16
For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name."
Acts 21:11
And he came to us and took Paul's belt. Tying up his own feet and hands, he said, "This is what the Holy Spirit says: 'In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will tie up the man whose belt this is, and will deliver [him] into the hands of the Gentiles.'"
2 Corinthians 11:23-27
Are they servants of Christ?--I am speaking as though I were beside myself--I [am] more so, with far greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with beatings to a much greater degree, in [danger of] death many times.
Isaiah 33:1
Ah, destroyer, and yourself not destroyed! And treacherous one, and no one has dealt treacherously with him! When you {cease} destroying, you will be destroyed. When you stop dealing treacherously, one will deal treacherously with you.
Matthew 5:11
Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute [you] and say all kinds of evil things against you, lying on account of me.
Matthew 10:21-25
"And brother will hand over brother to death, and a father [his] children, and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death,
Matthew 24:9
"Then they will hand you over to persecution and will kill you, and you will be hated by all the nations because of my name.
John 15:20
Remember the word that I said to you: 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.
John 16:1-4
"I have said these [things] to you so that you will not fall away.
Acts 9:14
and here he has authority from the chief priests to tie up all who call upon your name!"
Acts 20:22-23
"And now behold, bound by the Spirit I am traveling to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me {there},
Acts 21:4
And we stayed there seven days [after we] found the disciples, who kept telling Paul through the Spirit not to set foot in Jerusalem.
1 Corinthians 4:9-13
For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as condemned to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to people.
2 Corinthians 6:4
but commending ourselves as servants of God in every [way], in much endurance, in afflictions, in distresses, in difficulties,
1 Thessalonians 3:3
[so that] no one would be shaken by these afflictions. For [you] yourselves know that we are appointed for this,
2 Timothy 1:12
for which reason also I suffer these [things]. But [I am] not ashamed, because I know in whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard [what] I have entrusted until that day.
2 Timothy 2:9-10
in connection with which I suffer misfortune to the point of {imprisonment} as a criminal, but the word of God is not bound.
2 Timothy 3:11
persecutions, [and] sufferings that happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, [and] in Lystra, what sort of persecutions I endured, and the Lord delivered me from all [of them].
1 Peter 4:14
If you are reviled on account of the name of Christ, [you are] blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
Revelation 1:9
I, John, your brother and co-sharer in the affliction and kingdom and steadfastness in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony about Jesus.