except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me.
For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.”
that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this.
And having sought out the disciples, we stayed there for seven days. And through the Spirit they were telling Paul not to go on to Jerusalem.
Then the tribune came up and arrested him and ordered him to be bound with two chains. He inquired who he was and what he had done.
And coming to us, he took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit, ‘This is how the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”
strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.
if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us;
And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and join this chariot.”
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
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