understand.

Daniel 12:3, 4, 10
Then the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever. . . .

Isaiah 32:3, 4
Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen. . . .

Zechariah 8:20-23
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Peoples will yet come--the residents of many cities-- . . .

Malachi 2:7
For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts."

Matthew 13:11, 51, 52
He replied, "The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. . . .

Matthew 28:20
and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."

Luke 24:44-47
Jesus said to them, "These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms." . . .

Acts 4:2-4
greatly disturbed that they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead. . . .

Acts 11:26
and when he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. So for a full year they met together with the church and taught large numbers of people. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.

Acts 14:21
They preached the gospel to that city and made many disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

2 Timothy 2:24, 25
And a servant of the Lord must not be quarrelsome, but he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, and forbearing. . . .

yet.

Matthew 10:21
Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.

Matthew 20:23
"You will indeed drink My cup, " Jesus said. "But to sit at My right or left is not Mine to grant. These seats belong to those for whom My Father has prepared them."

Matthew 24:9
Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations on account of My name.

John 16:2
They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.

Acts 12:2, 3
He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword. . . .

1 Corinthians 4:9
For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.

2 Timothy 1:12
For this reason, even though I suffer as I do, I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him for that day.

2 Timothy 4:6
For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand.

Hebrews 11:34
quenched the raging fire, and escaped the edge of the sword; who gained strength from weakness, became mighty in battle, and put foreign armies to flight.

Revelation 1:9
I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and kingdom and perseverance that are in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God and my testimony about Jesus.

Revelation 2:13
I know where you live, where the throne of Satan sits. Yet you have held fast to My name and have not denied your faith in Me, even in the day when My faithful witness Antipas was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

Revelation 6:9
And when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony they had upheld.

Revelation 7:14
"Sir, " I answered, "you know." So he replied, "These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Revelation 13:7-10
Then the beast was permitted to wage war against the saints and to conquer them, and it was given authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation. . . .

Revelation 17:6
I could see that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and of the witnesses for Jesus. And I was greatly astonished at the sight of her.