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.

³³ “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.^(A) In this world you will have trouble.^(B) But take heart! I have overcome^(C) the world.”

³ so that no one would be unsettled by these trials.^(A) For you know quite well that we are destined for them.^(B)

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

¹⁶ I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.”^(A)

³⁰ will fail to receive a hundred times as much^(A) in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come^(B) eternal life.^(C)

²⁸ You are those who have stood by me in my trials. ²⁹ And I confer on you a kingdom,^(A) just as my Father conferred one on me,

¹⁷ Now if we are children, then we are heirs^(A)—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings^(B) in order that we may also share in his glory.^(C)

²⁰ I eagerly expect^(A) and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage^(B) so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body,^(C) whether by life or by death.^(D)