Acts 9:16
I will myself show him all that he has to suffer for my Name."
Acts 21:11
He came to see us, and, taking Paul's girdle, and binding his own feet and hands with it, said: "This is what the Holy Spirit says--'The man to whom this girdle belongs will be bound like this at Jerusalem by the Jews, and they will give him up to the Gentiles'."
2 Corinthians 11:23-27
Are they 'Servants of Christ'? Though it is madness to talk like this, I am more so than they! I have had more of toil, more of imprisonment! I have been flogged times without number. I have been often at death's door.
Matthew 5:11
Blessed are you when people taunt you, and persecute you, and say everything evil about you--untruly, and on my account.
Matthew 10:21-25
Brother will betray brother to death, and the father his child; and children will turn against their parents, and cause them to be put to death;
Matthew 24:9
When that time comes, they will give you up to persecution, and will put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations on account of my Name.
John 15:20
Remember what I said to you--'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have laid my Message to heart, they will lay yours to heart also.
John 16:1-4
I have spoken to you in this way so that you may not falter.
Acts 9:14
And, here, too, he holds authority from the Chief Priests to put in chains all those who invoke your Name."
Acts 20:22-23
And now, under spiritual constraint, I am here on my way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there,
Acts 21:4
There we found the disciples and stayed a week with them. Speaking under the influence of the Spirit, they warned Paul not to set foot in Jerusalem.
1 Corinthians 4:9-13
For, as it seems to me, God has exhibited us, the Apostles, last of all, as men doomed to death. We are made a spectacle to the universe, both to angels and to men!
2 Corinthians 6:4
No, we are trying to commend ourselves under all circumstances, as God's ministers should--in many an hour of endurance, in troubles, in hardships, in difficulties,
1 Thessalonians 3:3
So that none of you should be shaken by the troubles through which you are passing. You yourselves know that we are destined to meet with such things.
2 Timothy 1:12
That is why I am undergoing these sufferings; yet I feel no shame, for I know in whom I have put my faith, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until 'That Day.'
2 Timothy 2:9-10
in the service of which I am suffering hardships, even to being put in fetters as a criminal. But the Message of God is not fettered;
2 Timothy 3:11
as well as of my persecutions, and of the sufferings which I met with at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. You know what persecutions I underwent; and yet the Lord brought me safe out of all!
1 Peter 4:14
If you are reviled for bearing the name of Christ, count yourselves blessed; because the divine Glory and the Spirit of God are resting upon you.
Revelation 1:9
I, John, who am your Brother, and who share with you in the suffering and kingship and endurance of Jesus, found myself on the island called Patmos, for the sake of the Message of God and the testimony to Jesus.