Acts 24:5
For we have found this man a pest and a disturber of the peace among Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the Nazarene sect,
Acts 28:22
But we want to hear you state your views, for as far as this sect is concerned, we understand that everywhere it is denounced."
Acts 24:14
I admit that in worshiping the God of my forefathers I follow the way of life that they call a sect, but I believe everything that is taught in the Law or written in the prophets,
Acts 15:5
But some members of the Pharisees' party who had become believers got up and said that such converts ought to be circumcised and told to obey the Law of Moses.
Acts 26:5
for they have known from the first, if they are willing to give evidence, that I was a Pharisee and my life was that of the strictest sect of our religion.
Luke 23:2
and they made this charge against him: "Here is a man whom we have found misleading our nation, and forbidding the payment of taxes to the emperor, and claiming to be an anointed king himself."
Acts 5:17
This aroused the high priest and all his supporters, the party of the Sadducees, and filled them with jealousy,
Acts 16:20-21
and brought them before the chief magistrates. "These men," they said, "are Jews, and they are making a great disturbance in our town.
Acts 17:6-7
As they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the town magistrates, shouting, "The men who have made trouble all over the world have come here too,
Acts 21:28
shouting, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everybody everywhere against our people and the Law and this place, and besides he has actually brought Greeks into the Temple and desecrated this sacred place."
Matthew 2:23
and he went and settled in a town called Nazareth, in fulfilment of the saying of the prophets, "He shall be called a Nazarene."
Matthew 5:11-12
"Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and falsely say everything bad of you, on my account.
Matthew 10:25
A pupil should be satisfied to come to be like his teacher, or a slave, to come to be like his master. If men have called the head of the house Beelzebub, how much worse names will they give to the members of his household!
Luke 23:5
But they persisted and said, "He is stirring up the people all over Judea by his teaching. He began in Galilee and he has come here."
Luke 23:19
(He was a man who had been put in prison for a riot that had taken place in the city and for murder.)
Luke 23:25
He released the man they asked for, who had been put in prison for riot and murder, and handed Jesus over to their will.
Acts 6:13
Then they brought forward false witnesses, who said, "This man is constantly saying things against this holy place and against the Law,
Acts 22:22
They had listened to him until he said that, but then they shouted, "Kill him and get him out of the world! A creature like that ought not to be allowed to live!"
1 Corinthians 4:13
when they slander us, we try to conciliate them. We have come to be like the scum of the earth, the dregs of the world, and we are so now.
1 Corinthians 11:19
Doubtless there must be parties among you, if those who are right are to be recognized among you.
1 Peter 2:12-15
Live upright lives among the heathen, so that even if they charge you with being evil-doers, they may from observing the uprightness of your conduct come to praise God on the Day of Judgment.
1 Peter 2:19
For God approves a man if from a sense of duty he endures suffering unjustly inflicted??20 for what credit is there in your enduring being beaten for doing wrong? But if you endure suffering for doing what is right, you have God's approval.