1 Corinthians 4:10
For we have become a spectacle to the universe, to angels as well as men. For Christ's sake we are held as fools, while you through union with Christ are men of wisdom. We are weak; you are strong. You are held in honor; we in dishonor.
1 Corinthians 2:3
Yes, as for myself, it was in weakness and fear and great trembling that I came to you,
Acts 17:18
Some of the Epicurean and the Stoic philosophers began to debate with him; and some said, "What is this scraps-of-truth-picker trying to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a preacher of foreign deities." They said so because he was telling the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.
Acts 26:24
As Paul continued to make his defense, Festus shouted aloud, "You are going crazy, Paul! That great learning of yours is driving you crazy!"
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no one deceive himself. If any one of you supposes that he is wise in this world's wisdom, as compared with the rest of you, to become really wise he must become a fool.
2 Corinthians 13:9
I am glad to be consciously weak, if you are really strong. This is my continual prayer, the perfecting of your characters.
Matthew 5:11
"Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and keep on falsely telling all sorts of evil against you for my sake.
Matthew 10:22-25
And you will be hated by all men, because you bear my name, but whoever bears up to the end will be saved.
Matthew 24:9
At that time they will turn you over to torture, and will murder you, and you will be hated by all the heathen, because you bear my name.
Luke 6:22
Blessed are you when people hate you and exclude you and denounce you, and spurn your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man.
Luke 10:16
Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever pays no attention to you pays no attention to me, and whoever pays no attention to me pays no attention to Him who sent me."
Luke 18:9
To some people who were confident that they themselves were upright, but who scorned everybody else, He told the following story:
Acts 9:16
For I am going to show him how great are the sufferings he must endure for my name's sake."
Acts 17:32
But when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some sneered, but others said, "We will hear you again on this subject."
1 Corinthians 1:1-3
Paul, by the will of God called as an apostle of Jesus Christ, and our brother Sosthenes,
1 Corinthians 1:18-20
For the message of the cross is nonsense to those who are in the process of being destroyed, but it is the power of God to those who are in the process of being saved.
1 Corinthians 1:26-28
For consider, brothers, the way God called you; that not many of you, in accordance with human standards, were wise, not many influential, not many of high birth.
1 Corinthians 2:14
An unspiritual man does not accept the things that the Spirit of God teaches, for they are nonsense to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are appreciated by spiritual insight.
1 Corinthians 3:2
I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you could not take it. Why, you cannot take it even now,
1 Corinthians 4:8
Are you satisfied already? Have you grown rich already? Have you ascended your thrones without us to join you? Yes, I could wish that you had ascended your thrones, that we too might join you on them!
1 Corinthians 10:12
So the man who thinks he stands securely must be on the lookout not to fall.
1 Corinthians 10:14-15
So then, my dearly beloved, keep on running from idolatry.
2 Corinthians 10:10
For they say, "His letters are impressive and forceful, but his physical personality is unimpressive, and his delivery is perfectly contemptible."
2 Corinthians 11:19
For you who are so wise yourselves are glad to listen to fools!
2 Corinthians 11:29
Who is weak without my being weak too? Who is caused to fall without my being fired with indignation?
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
but He said to me, "My spiritual strength is sufficient, for it is only by means of conscious weakness that perfect power is developed."
2 Corinthians 13:3-4
since you demand a proof that Christ is speaking through me. For Christ is not exhibiting weakness toward you but power in you.
1 Thessalonians 4:8
So whoever rejects this teaching is rejecting not man but God who continues to put His Spirit in you.
1 Peter 4:14
If you are suffering abuse because you bear the name of Christ, you are happy, because the glorious Spirit of God is resting upon you.