Philippians 1:16

For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

For it is only right for me to think this way about you all, because I have you in my heart, since both in my chains and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are fellow partakers with me in this grace.

Now I want you to know, brothers, that my circumstances have turned out for the greater progress of the gospel,

But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that through me the preaching might be fulfilled, and that all the Gentiles might hear. And I was rescued out of the lion’s mouth.