TSK · Acts 16:19

"Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

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 I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake."

But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

When they didn't find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, "These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen,

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?