Matthew 5:12
Be glad and rejoice, because your reward in Heaven will be great; for so men persecuted the Prophets who lived before you.
Matthew 23:30-32
and say 'Had we been living in the days of our ancestors, we should have taken part in their murder of the Prophets!
Luke 17:26-30
As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be again in the days of the Son of Man.
Acts 7:51
O! stubborn race, heathen in heart and ears, you are for ever resisting the Holy Spirit; your ancestors did it, and you are doing it still.
1 Thessalonians 2:14-16
For you, Brothers, began to follow the example of the Churches of God in Judea which are in union with Jesus Christ; you, in your turn, suffering at the hands of your fellow-citizens, in the same way as those Churches did at the hands of the Jews--
2 Timothy 3:8
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these people, in their turn, oppose the Truth. Their minds are corrupted, and, as regards the Faith, they are utterly worthless.