Acts 9:16

The Lord foretold that Saul would suffer much for his name. The call to serve Christ includes the call to suffer for him.

Cross-references · 19

• 1 Th 3:3so that none of you would be shaken by these trials. For you know that we are destined for this.
• Acts 21:11Coming over to us, he took Paul’s belt, bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews of Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and hand him over to the Gentiles.’”
• 2 Cor 6:4Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;
• 2 Tim 1:12For this reason, even though I suffer as I do, I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him for that day.
• John 15:20Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.
• 2 Cor 11:23–27Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.
• 1 Pet 4:14If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
• Matt 5:11Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.
• 1 Cor 4:9–13For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.
• 2 Tim 2:9–10for which I suffer to the extent of being chained like a criminal. But the word of God cannot be chained!
• 2 Tim 3:11my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
• Matt 24:9Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
• John 16:1–4“I have told you these things so that you will not fall away.
• Acts 20:22–23And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there.
• Acts 21:4We sought out the disciples in Tyre and stayed with them seven days. Through the Spirit they kept telling Paul not to go up to Jerusalem.
• Matt 10:21–25Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
• Acts 9:14And now he is here with authority from the chief priests to arrest all who call on Your name.”
• Rev 1:9I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and kingdom and perseverance that are in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God and my testimony about Jesus.
• Isa 33:1Woe to you, O destroyer never destroyed, O traitor never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed. When you have finished betraying, you will be betrayed.

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