36 Just as it is written: “For your sake we are being put to death all day long; we have been accounted as sheep for slaughtering.”+

9 For it seems to me that God has put us the apostles last on exhibition as men condemned to death,+ because we have become a theatrical spectacle to the world,+ and to angels and to men.

31 Daily I face death. This is as sure as my exultation over you, brothers, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

8 For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the tribulation we experienced in the province of Asia.+ We were under extreme pressure beyond our own strength, so that we were very uncertain even of our lives.+