Take your share of suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

He immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran down to the crowd. When they saw the commanding officer and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine,

Then the soldiers cut the ropes of the ship’s boat and let it drift away.

Now when the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and made four shares, one for each soldier, and the tunic remained. (Now the tunic was seamless, woven from top to bottom as a single piece.)

After they had assembled with the elders and formed a plan, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,

So the soldiers led him into the palace (that is, the governor’s residence) and called together the whole cohort.

The soldiers braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they clothed him in a purple robe.

But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and blood and water flowed out immediately.

At daybreak there was great consternation among the soldiers over what had become of Peter.

When he came to the steps, Paul had to be carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob,

So the soldiers, in accordance with their orders, took Paul and brought him to Antipatris during the night.

Now the soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners so that none of them would escape by swimming away.

When we entered Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself, with the soldier who was guarding him.

Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the governor’s residence and gathered the whole cohort around him.

So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the two men who had been crucified with Jesus, first the one and then the other.

When the angel who had spoken to him departed, Cornelius called two of his personal servants and a devout soldier from among those who served him,

When he had seized him, he put him in prison, handing him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him. Herod planned to bring him out for public trial after the Passover.

Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay with the ship, you cannot be saved.”

For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I say to this one, ‘Go’ and he goes, and to another ‘Come’ and he comes, and to my slave ‘Do this’ and he does it.”