Afflictions and Adversities of Saints: Often Arise from the Profession of the Gospel
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Matthew 24:9
Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
John 15:21
But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.
2 Timothy 3:11, 12
my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. / Indeed, all who desire to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,