Acts 9:16
For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name."
Acts 21:11
He came to us, took Paul's belt, tied his own hands and feet with it, and said, "The Holy Spirit says this: 'This is the way the Jews in Jerusalem will tie up the man whose belt this is, and will hand him over to the Gentiles.'"
2 Corinthians 11:23-27
Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.
Isaiah 33:1
The destroyer is as good as dead, you who have not been destroyed! The deceitful one is as good as dead, the one whom others have not deceived! When you are through destroying, you will be destroyed; when you finish deceiving, others will deceive you!
Matthew 5:11
"Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things about you falsely on account of me.
Matthew 10:21-25
"Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.
Matthew 24:9
"Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name.
John 15:20
Remember what I told you, 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too.
John 16:1-4
"I have told you all these things so that you will not fall away.
Acts 9:14
and here he has authority from the chief priests to imprison all who call on your name!"
Acts 20:22-23
And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem without knowing what will happen to me there,
Acts 21:4
After we located the disciples, we stayed there seven days. They repeatedly told 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 men condemned to die, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.
2 Corinthians 6:4
But as God's servants, we have commended ourselves in every way, with great endurance, in persecutions, in difficulties, in distresses,
1 Thessalonians 3:3
so that no one would be shaken by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this.
2 Timothy 1:12
Because of this, in fact, I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, because I know the one in whom my faith is set and I am convinced that he is able to protect what has been entrusted to me until that day.
2 Timothy 2:9-10
for which I suffer hardship to the point of imprisonment as a criminal, but God's message is not imprisoned!
2 Timothy 3:11
as well as the persecutions and sufferings that happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, and in Lystra. I endured these persecutions and the Lord delivered me from them all.
1 Peter 4:14
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory, who is the Spirit of God, rests on you.
Revelation 1:9
I, John, your brother and the one who shares with you in the persecution, kingdom, and endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony about Jesus.