Ecclesiastes 1:10
Does anything exist about which someone might say, "Look at this! Is this new?" It happened ages ago; it existed before we did.
Matthew 5:12
Rejoice and be extremely glad, because your reward in heaven is great! That's how they persecuted the prophets who came before you."
Matthew 23:30-32
Then you say, "If we had been living in the days of our ancestors, we would have had no part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'
Luke 17:26-30
"Just as it was in Noah's time, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man.
Acts 7:51
"You stubborn people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.
1 Thessalonians 2:14-16
For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea that are in union with the Messiah Jesus. You suffered the same persecutions from the people of your own country as they did from those Jews
2 Timothy 3:8
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and their faith is a counterfeit.