2 Timothy 3:11
as well as the persecutions and sufferings that happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, and in Lystra. I endured these persecutions and the Lord delivered me from them all.
as well as the persecutions and sufferings that happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, and in Lystra. I endured these persecutions and the Lord delivered me from them all.
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12Now in fact all who want to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
10Continue in What You Have Learned You, however, have followed my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,
16At my first defense no one appeared in my support; instead they all deserted me– may they not be held accountable for it.
17But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed for all the Gentiles to hear. And so I was delivered from the lion’s mouth!
18The Lord will deliver me from every evil deed and will bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory for ever and ever! Amen.
25Three times I was beaten with a rod. Once I received a stoning. Three times I suffered shipwreck. A night and a day I spent adrift in the open sea.
26I have been on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers from false brothers,
27in hard work and toil, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, many times without food, in cold and without enough clothing.
28Apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxious concern for all the churches.
4As a result we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you are enduring.
5Encouragement in Persecution This is evidence of God’s righteous judgment, to make you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which in fact you are suffering.
30since you are encountering the same conflict that you saw me face and now hear that I am facing.
9for which I suffer hardship to the point of imprisonment as a criminal, but God’s message is not imprisoned!
10So I endure all things for the sake of those chosen by God, that they too may obtain salvation in Christ Jesus and its eternal glory.
23except that the Holy Spirit warns me in town after town that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me.
24But I do not consider my life worth anything to myself, so that I may finish my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.
13For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.
19serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots of the Jews.
10Therefore I am content with weaknesses, with insults, with troubles, with persecutions and difficulties for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.
19The godly face many dangers, but the LORD saves them from each one of them.
3so that no one would be shaken by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this.
4For in fact when we were with you, we were telling you in advance that we would suffer affliction, and so it has happened, as you well know.
19I replied,‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat those in the various synagogues who believed in you.
12Ministry as a Prisoner I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that my situation has actually turned out to advance the gospel:
14For you became imitators, brothers and sisters, of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you too suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they in fact did from the Jews,
28and by not being intimidated in any way by your opponents. This is a sign of their destruction, but of your salvation– a sign which is from God.
11I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to force them to blaspheme. Because I was so furiously enraged at them, I went to persecute them even in foreign cities.
13even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I was treated with mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief,
16But here is why I was treated with mercy: so that in me as the worst, Christ Jesus could demonstrate his utmost patience, as an example for those who are going to believe in him for eternal life.
9we are persecuted, but not abandoned; we are knocked down, but not destroyed,
4But as God’s servants, we have commended ourselves in every way, with great endurance, in persecutions, in difficulties, in distresses,
5in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in troubles, in sleepless nights, in hunger,
12Because of this, in fact, I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, because I know the one in whom my faith is set and I am convinced that he is able to protect what has been entrusted to me until that day.
18May the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that day! And you know very well all the ways he served me in Ephesus.
11Now, brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.
8I asked the Lord three times about this, that it would depart from me.
35Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
9For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
13For this reason I ask you not to lose heart because of what I am suffering for you, which is your glory.
8So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me, a prisoner for his sake, but by God’s power accept your share of suffering for the gospel.
8For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, regarding the affliction that happened to us in the province of Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of living.
32But remember the former days when you endured a harsh conflict of suffering after you were enlightened.
24Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body– for the sake of his body, the church– what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.
7So in all our distress and affliction, we were reassured about you, brothers and sisters, through your faith.
4I persecuted this Way even to the point of death, tying up both men and women and putting them in prison,
21For this reason the Jews, after they seized me while I was in the temple courts, were trying to kill me.
17From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear the marks of Jesus on my body.
7But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ.
32In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus in order to arrest me,
33but I was let down in a rope-basket through a window in the city wall, and escaped his hands.