Luke 2:34
Simeon gave them his blessing, and said to Mary, the child's mother: "This child is appointed to be the cause of the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a sign much spoken against--
John 8:47
He who comes from God listens to God's teaching; the reason why you do not listen is because you do not come from God."
John 18:37
"So you are a King after all!" exclaimed Pilate. "Yes, it is true I am a King," answered Jesus. "I was born for this, I have come into the world for this--to bear testimony to the Truth. Every one who is on the side of Truth listens to my voice."
Matthew 11:19
And now that the Son of Man has come, eating and drinking, they are saying 'Here is a glutton and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and outcasts!' And yet Wisdom is vindicated by her actions."
Matthew 13:11-12
"To you," answered Jesus, "the knowledge of the hidden truths of the Kingdom of Heaven has been imparted, but not to those.
Luke 4:28-29
All the people in the Synagogue, as they listened to this, became enraged.
Luke 7:23
And blessed is the man who finds no hindrance in me."
John 3:19-20
The ground of his condemnation is this, that though the Light has come into the world, men preferred the darkness to the Light, because their actions were wicked.
John 9:39
And Jesus added: "It was to put men to the test that I came into this world, in order that those that cannot see should see, and that those that can see should become blind."
John 15:24
If I had not done among them such work as no one else ever did, they would have had no sin to answer for; but, as it is, they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Romans 7:12
And so the Law is holy, and each Commandment is also holy, and just, and good.
Romans 9:32-33
And why? Because they looked to obedience, and not to faith, to secure it. They stumbled over 'the Stumbling-block.'
2 Corinthians 2:15-16
For we are the fragrance of Christ ascending to God--both among those who are in the path of Salvation and among those who are in the path to Ruin.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-12
For at the Coming of the Lord there will be great activity on the part of Satan, in the form of all kinds of deceptive miracles, signs, and marvels, as well as of wicked attempts to delude--
1 Peter 2:7-8
It is to you, then, who believe in him that he is precious, but to those who do not believe he is 'a stone which, though rejected by the builders, has now itself become the corner-stone,'