This will be a time for you to serve as witnesses.
From that time on, Judas began looking for an opportunity to betray him.
I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that my situation has actually turned out to advance the gospel:
and by not being intimidated in any way by your opponents. This is a sign of their destruction, but of your salvation – a sign which is from God.
This is evidence of God’s righteous judgment, to make you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which in fact you are suffering.
