Acts 9:16

Ananias Sent To Saul

¹⁵ The Lord said to him: Be on your way. This man is a chosen vessel to bear my name to the people of the nations, and kings and the children of Israel. ¹⁶ for I will show him how much he must suffer for My name’s sake.” ¹⁷ Ananias went his way. He entered the house and put his hands on him and said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared to you along the road sent me, that you might receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit.

For My Name

For My Sake

Great Things

Acts 21:11

Coming to us he took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands. He said: The Holy Spirit says, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owns this belt, and shall deliver him into the hands of the nations.

2 Corinthians 11:23-27

Are they ministers of Christ? I speak as a fool. I am more in labors more abundant, beaten beyond number, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.

Isaiah 33:1

Woe to you who destroy for you have not been destroyed! Woe to you who betray for you who have not been betrayed! When you stop destroying you will be destroyed; when you stop betraying you will be betrayed.

Matthew 5:11

Blessed are you when men revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake.

Matthew 10:21-25

People will hand over their brothers to be put to death. Parents will oppose children and children will oppose parents, causing them to be put to death.

Matthew 24:9

People will cause you tribulation, and kill you. You will be hated by all the nations for my name's sake.

John 15:20

Remember the word I said to you. A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours also.

John 16:1-4

I have spoken these things to you that you should not be made to stumble.

Acts 9:14

He has authority from the chief priests to arrest all who call on your name.

Acts 20:22-23

I am compelled by the spirit to go to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me there.

Acts 21:4

Having found the disciples, we stayed there seven days. Guided by the Spirit the disciples urged Paul not to go to Jerusalem.

1 Corinthians 4:9-13

For I think that God has placed us apostles last as men appointed to death. We are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.

2 Corinthians 6:4

In everything we commend ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

1 Thessalonians 3:3

We do not want anyone to be discouraged by these troubles. You know we were bound to suffer persecution.

2 Timothy 1:12

It is for this reason that I suffer these things. But I am still full of confidence, because I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to keep safe until that day what he has entrusted to me.

2 Timothy 2:9-10

I suffer hardship even to imprisonment as a criminal. But the word of God is not imprisoned.

2 Timothy 3:11

and also persecutions and sufferings. The things that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured. Out of them the Lord delivered me.

1 Peter 4:14

If you are reproached for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.

Revelation 1:9

I, John, your brother and companion in tribulation and kingdom and perseverance (patience) of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, because of the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.