Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Bible References

Marvel not

Ecclesiastes 5:8
Don't be surprised when you see the poor oppressed and the violent perverting both justice and verdicts in a province, for one high official watches another, and there are ones higher still over them.
John 3:7
Don't be astonished that I told you, "All of you must be born from above.'
Acts 3:12
When Peter saw this, he told the people: "Fellow Israelis, why are you wondering about this, and why are you staring at us as if by our own power or godliness we made him walk?
Revelation 17:7
"Why are you surprised?" The angel asked me. "I will tell you the secret of the woman and the beast with the seven heads and the ten horns that carries her.

If

Matthew 10:22
You will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the person who endures to the end will be saved.
Matthew 24:9
"Then they'll hand you over to suffer and will kill you, and you'll be hated by all the nations because of my name.
Mark 13:13
You will be hated continuously by everyone because of my name. But the person who endures to the end will be saved."
Luke 6:22
"How blessed are you whenever people hate you, avoid you, insult you, and slander you because of the Son of Man!
Luke 21:17
You will be hated continuously by everyone because of my name.
John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its actions are evil.
John 15:18
"If the world hates you, you should realize that it hated me before you.
John 16:2
You'll be thrown out of the synagogues. Yes, a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he's serving God.
John 17:14
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I don't belong to the world.
Romans 8:7
That is why the mind that focuses on human nature is hostile toward God. It refuses to submit to the authority of God's Law because it is powerless to do so.
2 Timothy 3:12
Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in union with the Messiah Jesus will be persecuted.
James 4:4
You adulterers! Don't you know that friendship with the world means hostility with God? So whoever wants to be a friend of this world is an enemy of God.

General references

Exodus 20:13
"You are not to commit murder.
Proverbs 29:27
The unjust man is detestable to the righteous, and whoever lives blamelessly is detestable to the wicked.
John 13:35
This is how everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
John 15:18
"If the world hates you, you should realize that it hated me before you.

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