2 Corinthians 11:23

And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am confined; I cannot go into the house of Yahweh.

for I will show him how much he must suffer for My name.”

Just as it is written, “For Your sake we are being put to death all day long; We were counted as sheep for the slaughter.”

For, I think that God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.

To this present hour we hunger and thirst, and are poorly clothed, and roughly treated, and homeless;

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

For if we are out of our mind, it is for God, or if we are of right mind, it is for you.

but in everything commending ourselves as ministers of God, in much perseverance, in afflictions, in distresses, in hardships,

You are looking at things as they are outwardly. If anyone is confident in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again within himself, that just as he is Christ’s, so also are we.

From now on let no one cause trouble for me, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.

In pointing out these things to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being nourished on the words of the faith and of the sound doctrine which you have been following.

persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra. What persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me!