Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.
Bible References
Understand
Matthew 13:11
He answered: "It is you and not they who are granted the privilege of knowing the secrets of the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 28:20
and teach them to practice all the commands that I have given you. And I myself will surely be with you all the days, down to the very close of an age."
Luke 24:44
Then He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you, that everything which is written about me in the law of Moses, in the prophets, and in the Psalms, had to be fulfilled."
Acts 4:2
because they were very much disturbed over their continuing to teach the people and to declare in the case of Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
Acts 11:26
and after he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. Now for a whole year their meeting with the church lasted, and they taught large numbers of people. It was at Antioch too that the disciples first came to be known as "Christians."
Acts 14:21
They told the good news in that town, and after winning many disciples there, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
2 Timothy 2:24
and a slave of the Lord must not quarrel but must be gentle to everybody; he must be a skillful teacher, and not resentful under injuries.
Yet
Matthew 10:21
One brother will turn another over to death, and a father his child, and children will take a stand against their parents, and will have them put to death.
Matthew 20:23
He said to them, "You will drink the cup that I am to drink, but seats at my right and at my left are not mine to give, but they will be given to those for whom they have been prepared by my Father."
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.
John 16:2
Men will turn you out of their synagogues. Yes, indeed, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think that he is rendering a religious service to God.
Acts 12:2
He had James the brother of John murdered with a sword,
1 Corinthians 4:9
For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on exhibition at the disgraced end of the procession, as they do with men who are doomed to die in the arena.
2 Timothy 1:12
This is why I am suffering so, but I am not ashamed of it, for I know whom I have trusted and I am absolutely sure that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.
2 Timothy 4:6
My life, indeed, is already ebbing out, and the time has come for me to sail away.
Hebrews 11:34
stopped the force of fire, escaped from dying by the sword, out of weakness found great strength, grew mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.
Revelation 1:9
I, John, your brother and companion with you in the trouble, the kingdom, and the patient endurance which Jesus gives, found myself on the island called Patmos, for preaching God's message and testifying to Jesus.
Revelation 2:13
"I know where you live, where Satan has his throne. Yet you are clinging to my name and have never renounced your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my faithful martyred witness, who was put to death among you, right where Satan lives,
Revelation 6:9
When He broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered for being faithful to God's message and for the testimony they bore to it.
Revelation 7:14
I answered him, "You know, my lord." He said to me: "These are the people who are coming through the great persecution, who have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Revelation 13:7
Permission was given to him to make war on God's people and to conquer them; authority was given to him over every tribe, people, language, and nation.
Revelation 17:6
I saw the woman drinking herself drunk with the blood of God's people and the blood of the martyred witnesses to Jesus. When I saw her, I was utterly astonished,