³³ Sometimes you were exposed to public ridicule and were beaten, and sometimes you helped others who were suffering the same things.

⁹ Instead, I sometimes think God has put us apostles on display, like prisoners of war at the end of a victor’s parade, condemned to die. We have become a spectacle to the entire world—to people and angels alike.

¹⁴ Even so, you have done well to share with me in my present difficulty.

⁷ So it is right that I should feel as I do about all of you, for you have a special place in my heart. You share with me the special favor of God, both in my imprisonment and in defending and confirming the truth of the Good News.

³⁶ Some were jeered at, and their backs were cut open with whips. Others were chained in prisons.

¹⁴ And then, dear brothers and sisters, you suffered persecution from your own countrymen. In this way, you imitated the believers in God’s churches in Judea who, because of their belief in Christ Jesus, suffered from their own people, the Jews.

¹³ So let us go out to him, outside the camp, and bear the disgrace he bore.

²⁶ He thought it was better to suffer for the sake of Christ than to own the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to his great reward.