Acts 9:16

Now Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

but rise up and enter the city, and it will be told you what you must do.”

strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying, “Through many afflictions we must enter the kingdom of God.”

except that the Holy Spirit solemnly testifies to me in every city, saying that chains and afflictions await me.

And coming to us, he took Paul’s belt and bound his own feet and hands, and said, “This is what the Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”

Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, crying and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but even to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but having been brought up in this city, having been instructed at the feet of Gamaliel according to the strictness of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God just as you all are today,

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

so that no one would be shaken by these afflictions, for you yourselves know that we have been destined for this.