Acts 21:38

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake.

Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.

When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.

These accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of Beroea; Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians; Gaius of Derbe; Timothy; and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.

Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.

Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.

You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples.

If therefore they tell you, ‘Behold, he is in the wilderness,’ don’t go out; or ‘Behold, he is in the inner rooms,’ don’t believe it.

But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, will save it.

But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.

Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me.

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

Embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to places on the coast of Asia, we put to sea, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you received commandments, “if he comes to you, receive him”),

as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.

“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.

But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one,

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth.

Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.

A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,

For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will lead many astray.

Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray.

Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness.

Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves. He was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nothing.

When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

Having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.

Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.

I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius,

We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn away from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days, because you will do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.”

He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the vision of God; and as long as he sought Yahweh, God made him prosper.

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,

With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind,

All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.

Pilate answered, “I’m not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?”

Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel.

Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn’t know why they had come together.

For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning today’s riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn’t be able to give an account of this commotion.”

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

All the city was moved and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.

As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble,

For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron,

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.