Some were mocked and whipped, and others were put in chains and taken off to prison.

My life has been an example to many, because you have been my strong defender.

I will treat you with contempt and cover you with filth. People will stare at you in horror.

Listen then, Joshua, you who are the High Priest; and listen, you fellow priests of his, you that are the sign of a good future: I will reveal my servant, who is called The Branch!

For it seems to me that God has given the very last place to us apostles, like people condemned to die in public as a spectacle for the whole world of angels and of human beings.

He reckoned that to suffer scorn for the Messiah was worth far more than all the treasures of Egypt, for he kept his eyes on the future reward.

Let us, then, go to him outside the camp and share his shame.

My devotion to your Temple burns in me like a fire; the insults which are hurled at you fall on me.

Rouse yourself, God, and defend your cause! Remember that godless people laugh at you all day long.

Lord, pay the other nations back seven times for all the insults they have hurled at you.

Your enemies insult your chosen king, O LORD! They insult him wherever he goes.

"Listen to me, you that know what is right, who have my teaching fixed in your hearts. Do not be afraid when people taunt and insult you;

I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

You are always in my heart! And so it is only right for me to feel as I do about you. For you have all shared with me in this privilege that God has given me, both now that I am in prison and also while I was free to defend the gospel and establish it firmly.

But it was very good of you to help me in my troubles.

Our friends, the same things happened to you that happened to the churches of God in Judea, to the people there who belong to Christ Jesus. You suffered the same persecutions from your own people that they suffered from the Jews,

Do not be ashamed, then, of witnessing for our Lord; neither be ashamed of me, a prisoner for Christ's sake. Instead, take your part in suffering for the Good News, as God gives you the strength for it.

May the Lord show mercy to the family of Onesiphorus, because he cheered me up many times. He was not ashamed that I am in prison,

May the Lord grant him his mercy on that Day! And you know very well how much he did for me in Ephesus.