1 Corinthians 4:10
We [are] fools for the sake of Christ, but you [are] prudent in Christ! We [are] weak, but you [are] strong! You [are] honored, but we [are] dishonored!
1 Corinthians 2:3
And I came to you in weakness and in fear and with much trembling,
Acts 17:18
And even some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him, and some were saying, "What does this babbler want to say?" But [others said], "He appears to be a proclaimer of foreign deities," because he was proclaiming the good news [about] Jesus and the resurrection.
Acts 26:24
And [as] he was saying these things in his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, "You are out of your mind, Paul! [Your] great learning {is driving} you {insane}!"
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks [himself] to be wise among you in this age, let him become a fool, in order that he may become wise.
2 Corinthians 13:9
For we rejoice whenever we are weak, but you are strong, and we pray for this: your maturity.
2 Kings 9:11
Then Jehu came out to the officers of his master, and they said to him, "Peace? Why did this madman come to you?" And he said to them, "You know the man and his foolish talk."
Proverbs 11:12
He who lacks {sense} belittles his neighbor, but a person of intelligence will remain silent.
Isaiah 53:3
[He was] despised and rejected [by] men, a man of suffering, and acquainted with sickness, and like {one from whom others hide their faces}, [he was] despised, and we did not hold him in high regard.
Jeremiah 8:8-9
How can you say, 'We [are] wise and the law of Yahweh [is] with us'? Look, surely {the lying stylus of the scribes} has made it a lie.
Hosea 9:7
The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have come; Israel knows! The prophet [is] a fool, the man of the spirit [is] acting like a madman. Because of the greatness of your sin, [your] hostility [is] great.
Matthew 5:11
Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute [you] and say all kinds of evil things against you, lying on account of me.
Matthew 10:22-25
and you will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end--this one will be saved.
Matthew 24:9
"Then they will hand you over to persecution and will kill you, and you will be hated by all the nations because of my name.
Luke 6:22
Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and revile [you] and spurn your name as evil on account of the Son of Man.
Luke 10:16
The one who listens to you listens to me, and the one who rejects you rejects me. But the one who rejects me rejects the one who sent me."
Luke 18:9
And he also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and looked down on {everyone else}:
Acts 9:16
For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name."
Acts 17:32
Now [when they] heard about the resurrection of the dead, [some] scoffed, but [others] said, "We will hear you about this again also."
1 Corinthians 1:1-3
Paul, called [to be] an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
1 Corinthians 1:18-20
For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 1:26-28
For consider your calling, brothers, that not many [were] wise according to human standards, not many [were] powerful, not many [were] well born.
1 Corinthians 2:14
But the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to understand [them], because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 3:2
I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, for you were not yet able [to eat it]. But now you are still not able,
1 Corinthians 4:8
Already you are satiated! Already you are rich! Apart from us you reign as kings! And would that indeed you reigned as kings, in order that we also might reign as kings with you!
1 Corinthians 10:12
Therefore, the one who thinks that he stands must watch out lest he fall.
1 Corinthians 10:14-15
Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.
2 Corinthians 10:10
because it is said, "His letters [are] severe and powerful, but his bodily presence [is] weak and his speech is of no account."
2 Corinthians 11:19
For [because you] are wise, you put up with foolish people gladly!
2 Corinthians 11:29
Who is weak, and [I am] not weak? Who is caused to sin, and I do not burn [with indignation]?
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
And he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, because the power is perfected in weakness." Therefore rather I will boast most gladly in my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may reside in me.
2 Corinthians 13:3-4
since you are demanding proof that Christ, who [is] not weak toward you, but is powerful among you, is speaking in me.
1 Thessalonians 4:8
Therefore the one who rejects [this] [is] not rejecting man, but God, [who] also gives his Holy Spirit to you.
1 Peter 4:14
If you are reviled on account of the name of Christ, [you are] blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.