⁹ But they will not succeed in their efforts. As was the case with those men, their folly will become obvious to everyone.

¹⁰ Remain Faithful in Persecution. As for you, however, you have followed my teaching, my way of life, my aims, my faith, my patience, my love, my perseverance, ¹¹ my persecutions, my sufferings—the things that I faced in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra and that I endured. Yet the Lord brought me out safely from all of them.^[a]