As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.