Acts 9:16

Ananias Sent To Saul

¹⁵ "Go," replied the Lord; "he is a chosen instrument of Mine to carry My name to the Gentiles and to kings and to the descendants of Israel. ¹⁶ For I will let him know the great sufferings which he must pass through for My sake." ¹⁷ So Ananias went and entered the house; and, laying his two hands upon Saul, said, "Saul, brother, the Lord--even Jesus who appeared to you on your journey--has sent me, that you may recover your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit."

For My Name

For My Sake

Great Things

Acts 21:11

When he arrived he took Paul's loincloth, and bound his own feet and arms with it, and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit, 'So will the Jews in Jerusalem bind the owner of this loincloth, and will hand him over to the Gentiles.'"

2 Corinthians 11:23-27

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as if I were out of my mind.)

Matthew 5:11

"Blessed are you when they have insulted and persecuted you, and have said every cruel thing about you falsely for my sake.

Matthew 10:21-25

Brother will betray brother to death, and father, child; and children will rise against their own parents and will put them to death.

Matthew 24:9

"At that time they will deliver you up to punishment and will put you to death; and you will be objects of hatred to all the nations because you are called by my name.

John 15:20

Bear in mind what I said to you, 'A servant is not superior to his master.' If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.

John 16:1-4

"These things I have spoken to you in order to clear stumbling-blocks out of your path.

Acts 9:14

and here he is authorized by the High Priests to arrest all who call upon Thy name."

Acts 20:22-23

"And now, impelled by a sense of duty, I am on my way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there,

Acts 21:4

Having searched for the disciples and found them, we stayed at Tyre for seven days; and, taught by the Spirit, they repeatedly urged Paul not to proceed to Jerusalem.

1 Corinthians 4:9-13

God, it seems to me, has exhibited us Apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; for we have come to be a spectacle to all creation--alike to angels and to men.

2 Corinthians 6:4

On the contrary, as God's servants, we seek their full approval--by unwearied endurance, by afflictions, by distress, by helplessness;

1 Thessalonians 3:3

that none of you might be unnerved by your present trials: for you yourselves know that they are our appointed lot.

2 Timothy 1:12

That indeed is the reason why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know in whom my trust reposes, and I am confident that He has it in His power to keep what I have entrusted to Him safe until that day.

2 Timothy 2:9-10

For preaching the Good News I suffer, and am even put in chains, as if I were a criminal: yet the word of God is not imprisoned.

2 Timothy 3:11

and the persecutions and sufferings which I have endured; the things which happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra. You know the persecutions I endured, and how the Lord delivered me out of them all.

1 Peter 4:14

You are to be envied, if you are being reproached for bearing the name of Christ; for in that case the Spirit of glory-- even the Spirit of God--is resting upon you.

Revelation 1:9

I John, your brother, and a sharer with you in the sorrows and Kingship and patient endurance of Jesus, found myself in the island of Patmos, on account of the Word of God and the truth told us by Jesus.