Acts 9:16
"for I am going to show him all he has to suffer for the sake of my name."
Acts 21:11
He came to us, and taking Paul's girdle, he bound his own feet and hands, saying, "Thus says the Holy Spirit, 'so will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the owner of this girdle, and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"
2 Corinthians 11:23-27
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as though I were beside myself), such, far, more, am I; in labors more abundant, in imprisonments also more abundant, in floggings beyond measure, in deaths often.
Matthew 5:11
"Blessed are you when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my name's sake.
Matthew 10:21-25
"And brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against their parents and put them to death.
Matthew 24:9
Then they will deliver you up to suffer affliction, and will put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.
John 15:20
"Remember what I told you, 'A slave is not better than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you. If they have obeyed my word, they will obey yours also.
John 16:1-4
"I have told you all this so that you may not stumble.
Acts 9:14
"In this city, too, he has authority from the chief priests to arrest all those who call upon thy name."
Acts 20:22-23
And now I am going to Jerusalem, bound in the Spirit, not knowing what will befall me there,
Acts 21:4
We looked up the local disciples and remained there seven days; and these disciples kept telling Paul, through the Spirit, that he should not set foot in Jerusalem.
1 Corinthians 4:9-13
But it seems to me that God has exhibited us apostles, last of all, like men doomed to death; for we are made a spectacle to the whole world, both to men and to angels.
2 Corinthians 6:4
but in every way I am striving to commend myself as God's minister by stedfast endurance, by afflictions, by troubles, by distresses,
1 Thessalonians 3:3
So that no one should be shaken by these troubles??or you know well that we are appointed to troubles.
2 Timothy 1:12
But I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have fully believed, and I am thoroughly persuaded that he is able to keep what I have given him until the Day.
2 Timothy 2:9-10
For preaching it I am suffering, and am even put in chains as a malefactor.
2 Timothy 3:11
as well as the persecutions and sufferings which befell me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. You know all the persecutions I endured, and how the Lord delivered me out of them all!
1 Peter 4:14
If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the spirit of glory and of God is resting upon you.
Revelation 1:9
I, John, who am your brother and who share with you in the woes and kingdom and stedfastness of Jesus, found myself in the island called Patmos, for the sake of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.