Acts 9:16

Ananias Sent To Saul

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, Go! For this one is a chosen vessel to Me, to bear My name before nations and kings and the sons of Israel. ¹⁶ For I will show him what great things he must suffer for My name's sake. ¹⁷ And Ananias went and entered into the house. And putting his hands on him, he said, Brother Saul, the Lord, Jesus, who appeared to you in the way in which you came, has sent me to you that you might see and be filled with the Holy Spirit.

For My Name

For My Sake

Great Things

Acts 21:11

And coming to us, and taking Paul's belt, and binding his hands and feet, he said, The Holy Spirit says these things: So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man whose belt this is, and will deliver him into the hands of the nations.

2 Corinthians 11:23-27

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself,) I am more! I have been in labors more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more, in deaths many times.

Isaiah 33:1

Woe to the destroyer, and you who have not been destroyed; and betrayer, and they have not betrayed you. When you stop destroying, you shall be destroyed. When you stop betraying, they shall betray you.

Matthew 5:11

Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for My sake.

Matthew 10:21-25

And brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. And the children shall rise up against their parents and cause them to be put to death.

Matthew 24:9

Then they will deliver you up to be afflicted and will kill you. And you will be hated of all nations for My name's sake.

John 15:20

Remember the word that I said to you, The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they have kept My saying, they will also keep yours.

John 16:1-4

I have spoken these things to you so that you should not be offended.

Acts 9:14

And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on Your Name.

Acts 20:22-23

And now, behold, I am going bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall happen to me there,

Acts 21:4

And finding disciples, we stayed there seven days; who said to Paul through the Spirit that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

1 Corinthians 4:9-13

For I think that God has set forth us last, the apostles, as it were appointed to death; for we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.

2 Corinthians 6:4

but in everything commending ourselves as God's servants, in much patience, in troubles, in emergencies, in distresses,

1 Thessalonians 3:3

so that no one should be drawn aside by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are appointed to them.

2 Timothy 1:12

For this cause I also suffer these things; but I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that He is able to guard My deposit unto that Day.

2 Timothy 2:9-10

in which I suffer ill as an evildoer, even to bonds. But the Word of God is not chained.

2 Timothy 3:11

persecutions, afflictions, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra. What persecutions I endured! But the Lord delivered me out of all.

1 Peter 4:14

If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of God and of glory rests on you. Truly according to them, He is blasphemed, but according to you He is glorified.

Revelation 1:9

I, John, who also am your brother and companion in the affliction, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the island that is called Patmos, for the Word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.