Romans 15:31

But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much harm he did to Your saints at Jerusalem.

Now I exhort you, brothers (you know the household of Stephanas, that they were the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves for service to the saints),

who rescued us from so great a peril of death, and will rescue us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet rescue us,

begging us with much urging for the grace of sharing in the ministry to the saints,

Because of the proven character given by this ministry, they will glorify God for your obedience to your confession of the gospel of Christ and for the generosity of your fellowship toward them and toward all,

and that we will be rescued from perverse and evil men, for not all have faith.

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!

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.