Again he sent other slaves, more than the first, and they treated them the same way.

As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his own children,

So ¹  he sent another slave to them again. This one they struck on the head and treated outrageously.

So ¹  he sent another slave. They beat this one too, treated him outrageously, and sent him away empty-handed. ² 

To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, poorly clothed, brutally treated, and without a roof over our heads.

choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin’s fleeting pleasure.

Even Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Then, ¹  dressing him in elegant clothes, ²  Herod ³  sent him back to Pilate.

For how ¹  were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this injustice!

These things may be treated as an allegory, ¹  for these women represent two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai bearing children for slavery; this is Hagar.

even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor, and an arrogant ¹  man. But I was treated with mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief,

At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and afflictions, and at other times you came to share with others who were treated in that way.

They were stoned, sawed apart, ¹  murdered with the sword; they went about in sheepskins and goatskins; they were destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

Remember those in prison as though you were in prison with them, ¹  and those ill-treated as though you too felt their torment. ² 

When ¹  his parents ²  saw him, they were overwhelmed. His ³  mother said to him, “Child, ⁴  why have you treated ⁵  us like this? Look, your father and I have been looking for you anxiously.” ⁶ 

But here is why I was treated with mercy: so that ¹  in me as the worst, ²  Christ Jesus could demonstrate his utmost patience, as an example for those who are going to believe in him for eternal life.