And now behold, I, having been bound in the spirit, am going to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me there,

except that the Holy Spirit in every city is solemnly bearing witness, saying that bonds and tribulations are waiting for me.

And coming to us and taking Paul's belt, and binding his feet and hands, he said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit, ' The man whose belt this is, the Jews will bind in this way in Jerusalem, and they will deliver [him] into the hands of the Gentiles.'"

Woe to those that afflict you; but no one makes you miserable; and he that deals treacherously with you does not deal treacherously; those that deal treacherously shall be taken and given up, and like a moth on a garment, so shall they be spoiled.

Now brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents, and put them to death.

But whenever they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For assuredly I say to you, by no means will you have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

It is enough for a disciple that he become like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call his household members!

Remember the word which I said to you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.

"These things I have spoken to you, so that you should not be made to stumble.

And these things they will do [to you] because they did not know the Father nor Me.

For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men appointed to death; for we became a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

Even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are naked, and beaten, and homeless.

being defamed, we encourage; we have become as the sweepings of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I [am] even more: in labors far more, in beatings immeasurably, in imprisonments far more, in deaths often.

Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have spent in the depth [of the sea].

in labor and hardship, in sleepless nights often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness--

For which cause I also suffer these things; but I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I have been persuaded that He is able to guard that which I have committed to Him until that Day.

in which I endure hardship unto chains as an evildoer; but the word of God is not chained.

Because of this, I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch, in Iconium, at Lystra--what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me.

and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who are calling on Your name."

"Blessed are you whenever they revile you, and they persecute you, and they say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.

Then they will hand you over to tribulation and they will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations, on account of My name.

If you are reviled in the name of Christ, blessed are you, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On the one hand He is blasphemed, but on the other He is glorified.

I, John, your brother and partaker in the tribulation and kingdom and endurance in Christ Jesus, came to be on the island that is called Patmos on account of the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.