This will be your opportunity to serve as witnesses.
Parallel translations
- WEB It will turn out as a testimony for you.
- KJV And it shall turn to you for a testimony.
- NKJV But it will turn out for you as an occasion for testimony.
- NASB It will lead to an opportunity for your testimony.
- NLT But this will be your opportunity to tell them about me.
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Quick answer
This persecution will become an opportunity to bear witness to Christ.
Overview
Jesus reframes suffering as a platform for testimony before rulers and the powerful. What looks like defeat becomes the occasion for the gospel to be proclaimed. God turns the hostility of the world into a means of advancing His truth.
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Cross-references · 4
- Phil 1:12Now I want you to know, brothers, that my circumstances have actually served to advance the gospel.
- Phil 1:28without being frightened in any way by those who oppose you. This is a clear sign of their destruction but of your salvation, and it is from God.
- 2 Th 1:5All this is clear evidence of God’s righteous judgment. And so you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering.
- 1 Th 3:3–4so that none of you would be shaken by these trials. For you know that we are destined for this.
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