2 Corinthians 4:10-11
4:10 always carrying around in our body the death of Jesus,
so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible
in our body.
4:11 For we who are alive are constantly being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible
in our mortal body.
2 Corinthians 11:23-30
11:23 Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.
11:24 Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes less one.
11:25 Three times I was beaten with a rod.
Once I received a stoning.
Three times I suffered shipwreck. A night and a day I spent adrift in the open sea.
11:26 I have been on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers,
in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness,
in dangers at sea, in dangers from false brothers,
11:27 in hard work and toil,
through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, many times without food, in cold and without enough clothing.
11:28 Apart from other things,
there is the daily pressure on me of my anxious concern
for all the churches.
11:29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin,
and I do not burn with indignation?
11:30 If I must boast,
I will boast about the things that show my weakness.
Acts 9:4
9:4 He
fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul,
why are you persecuting me?”
Acts 9:1
The Conversion of Saul
9:1 Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats to murder the Lord’s disciples, went to the high priest
Colossians 4:10-13
4:10 Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, sends you greetings, as does Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (about whom you received instructions; if he comes to you, welcome him).
4:11 And Jesus who is called Justus also sends greetings. In terms of Jewish converts, these are the only fellow workers for the kingdom of God, and they have been a comfort to me.
4:12 Epaphras, who is one of you and a slave of Christ, greets you. He is always struggling in prayer on your behalf, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.
4:13 For I can testify that he has worked hard for you and for those in Laodicea and Hierapolis.
Philippians 1:20
1:20 My confident hope
is that I will in no way be ashamed
but that with complete boldness, even now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body, whether I live or die.
Philippians 3:10
3:10 My aim is to know him,
to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings,
and to be like him in his death,
Colossians 1:24
1:24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body – for the sake of his body, the church – what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.