³³ sometimes being publicly exposed to insults and afflictions and sometimes becoming partners with those so treated.^(A)

⁹ For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, as though sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to humans.^(A)

¹⁴ In any case, it was kind of you to share my distress.

⁷ It is right for me to think this way about all of you, because I hold you in my heart,^[a] for all of you are my partners in God’s grace,^[b] both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel.^(A)

³⁶ Others suffered mocking and flogging and even chains and imprisonment.^(A)

¹⁴ For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, for you suffered the same things from your own compatriots as they did from the Jews^(A)

¹³ Let us then go to him outside the camp and bear the abuse he endured.

²⁶ He considered abuse suffered for the Christ^[a] to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to the reward.