paul evil doer

 Paul writes in II Timothy 2:9, "Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound."

“He wasn’t an evil doer but he suffered trouble AS an evildoer," explains Jordan. "There were people who thought Paul was a crook. That’s why he says in I Thessalonians 2:10 says, ‘Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe.’

“Among the Believers, they knew better. The Romans, the world, the government would have said whatever. The ‘lewd fellows of baser sort’ could have said whatever they wanted to, accused him of sedition and all kind of riot.

“But the people who knew him, and can I tell you that’s one of things you learn . . . Paul says in I Thessalonians 5:12, ‘And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you.’

“One of the reasons for that is you know who they are (you're putting the right people into the jobs), but the other thing is you know them so that when you hear things about them . . . ”