TSK · Acts 9:16

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

"These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn't be caused to stumble.

Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;

Coming to us, and taking Paul's belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit: 'So will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God's word isn't chained.

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.