Acts 20:23

¹⁶For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

⁴Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

³that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

²²strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

³³Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.

¹¹Coming to us and taking Paul’s belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy Spirit says: ‘So the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”

¹²If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

²⁹The Spirit said to Philip, “Go near, and join yourself to this chariot.”

³³I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”