1 Corinthians 4:10
For Christ's sake we are fools, but you are quite philosophic in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are outcast.
1 Corinthians 2:3
In weakness and fear and great trembling came I among you.
Acts 17:18
A few of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also encountered him again and again. Some were saying, "What has this beggarly fellow to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a setter forth of strange gods," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
Acts 26:24
As Paul thus made his defense, Festus exclaimed in a loud voice. "Paul, you are raving mad; your great learning is driving you mad."
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no one deceive himself. If any one of you supposes that he is wise in the philosophy of the present age, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.
2 Corinthians 13:9
For I am always glad whenever I am weak, but you are strong. For this also I am praying, for your perfect reformation.
Matthew 5:11
"Blessed are you when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my name's sake.
Matthew 10:22-25
"You will be hated by all men because of my name; and he who endures to the end shall be saved.
Matthew 24:9
Then they will deliver you up to suffer affliction, and will put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.
Luke 6:22
"Blessed are you when men shall hate you, And excommunicate you and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil because of the Son of man.
Luke 10:16
"He who listens to you listens to me. and he who rejects you, rejects me; he who rejects me, rejects him who sent me."
Luke 18:9
Moreover he spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves because they were righteous, and looked down upon the rest.
Acts 9:16
"for I am going to show him all he has to suffer for the sake of my name."
Acts 17:32
But on hearing of the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock; but others said, "We will hear you again on that subject."
1 Corinthians 1:1-3
Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Jesus Christ, and Sosthenes, his brother.
1 Corinthians 1:18-20
For the message of the Cross is indeed for those on their way to destruction, foolishness; but for us who are on our way to salvation it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 1:26-28
For consider your own calling, brothers, that not many wise in earthly wisdom, not many powerful, not many of noble birth, have been called.
1 Corinthians 2:14
The unspiritual man rejects the teachings of God's Spirit; for him it is folly. He cannot understand it, for it is spiritually discerned,
1 Corinthians 3:2
I fed you milk, not meat; for you were unable to bear it.
1 Corinthians 4:8
But you, forsooth, are already full, are you? You are already rich? Without us you are already reigning? Yes, and I would that you did reign, so that we also might reign with you.
1 Corinthians 10:12
So then let him who imagines that he is standing so securely beware lest he fall.
1 Corinthians 10:14-15
So then, my beloved, continually flee from idolatry.
2 Corinthians 10:10
"His letters indeed," says one, "are mighty and forcible, but his personality is weak, and his speech contemptible."
2 Corinthians 11:19
Although you are wise, you put up with fools willingly enough!
2 Corinthians 11:29
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, but I burn with indignation?
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
but he has answered me. "My grace is sufficient for you; it is in weakness that my power is perfected."
2 Corinthians 13:3-4
Since you want a proof of Christ who is speaking in me, he who is not feeble toward you, but powerful among you.
1 Thessalonians 4:8
So that he who rejects this is not rejecting man, but the God who gave you his Holy Spirit.
1 Peter 4:14
If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the spirit of glory and of God is resting upon you.