Hear Me, those knowing righteousness, the people of My Law in their heart; do not fear the reproach of man, and do not be bowed from their blasphemings.
For I think that God pointed us out as last, the apostles, as condemned to death, because we became a spectacle to the world, even to angels and to men.
Therefore I am pleased in weaknesses, in insults, in calamities, in persecutions, in distresses, for the sake of Christ. For whenever I may be weak, then I am powerful.
as it is righteous for me to think this of you all because you have me in your heart, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you are all sharers of the grace with me.
For, brothers, you became imitators of the assemblies of God, the ones being in Judea in Christ Jesus, because you also suffered these things by your own fellow countrymen, as they did also by the Jews,