TSK · Acts 9:16

“Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things about you falsely on account of me.

Persecution of Disciples“Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name.

“I have told you all these things so that you will not fall away.

And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem without knowing what will happen to me there,

He came to us, took Paul’s belt, tied his own hands and feet with it, and said,“The Holy Spirit says this:‘This is the way the Jews in Jerusalem will tie up the man whose belt this is, and will hand him over to the Gentiles.’”

But as God’s servants, we have commended ourselves in every way, with great endurance, in persecutions, in difficulties, in distresses,

so that no one would be shaken by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this.

for which I suffer hardship to the point of imprisonment as a criminal, but God’s message is not imprisoned!

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory, who is the Spirit of God, rests on you.