Acts 9:16

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Summary

Acts 9:16

For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.

I will

General references

Ezekiel 3:25

Bible References

I will

“And now I am on my way to Jerusalem, bound in my spirit, not knowing what I will encounter there,

He came to us, took Paul’s belt, tied his own feet and hands, and said, “This is what the Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into Gentile hands.’”

Woe, you destroyer never destroyed,
you traitor never betrayed!
When you have finished destroying,
you will be destroyed.
When you have finished betraying,
they will betray you.

“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will even rise up against their parents and have them put to death.

Remember the word I spoke 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 also keep yours.

“I have told you these things to keep you from stumbling.

For I think God has displayed us, the apostles, in last place, like men condemned to die: We have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.

Are they servants of Christ?
I’m talking like a madman—I’m a better one:
with far more labors,
many more imprisonments,
far worse beatings, near death many times.

and that is why I suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, because I know the One I have believed in and am persuaded that He is able to guard what has been entrusted to me

until that day.

I suffer for it to the point of being bound like a criminal, but God’s message is not bound.

along with the persecutions and sufferings that came to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from them all.

General references

And you, son of man, they will put ropes on you and bind you with them so you cannot go out among them.