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.

²² strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to remain true to the faith.^(A) “We must go through many hardships^(B) to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.

⁹ persecuted,^(A) but not abandoned;^(B) struck down, but not destroyed.^{(C) 10} We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus,^(D) so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.^(E)