²⁰ Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’^[a](A) If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also.^(B) If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.

¹² In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,^(A)

¹⁶ Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master,^(A) nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

²⁴ “The student is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his master.^(A)

⁷ But the people of Israel are not willing to listen^(A) to you because they are not willing to listen to me, for all the Israelites are hardened and obstinate.^(B)

¹⁵ who killed the Lord Jesus^(A) and the prophets^(B) and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to everyone

⁹ persecuted,^(A) but not abandoned;^(B) struck down, but not destroyed.^(C)

¹² We work hard with our own hands.^(A) When we are cursed, we bless;^(B) when we are persecuted,^(C) we endure it;

³¹ Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him,^(A)