Matthew 5:44
But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Matthew 10:21-23
Brother will betray brother to death, the father will betray his child, children will rise against their parents and put them to death,
Matthew 24:9
Then men will hand you over to suffer affliction, and they will kill you; you will be hated by all the Gentiles on account of my name.
Luke 2:34
but Symeon blessed them, and to his mother Mary he said, "This child is destined for the downfall as well as for the rise of many a one in Israel; destined to be a Sign for man's attack ??35 to bring out the secret aims of many a heart. And your own soul will be pierced by a spear."
Luke 6:22
Blessed are you when men will hate you, when they will excommunicate you and denounce you and defame you as wicked on account of the Son of man;
Acts 16:20-22
Bringing them before the praetors they declared, "These fellows are Jews who are making an agitation in our town;
Acts 17:6-8
but as they failed to find Paul and Silas they haled Jason and some of the brothers before the politarchs, yelling, "These upsetters of the whole world have come here too!
Acts 19:8-9
Then Paul entered the synagogue and for three months spoke out fearlessly, arguing and persuading people about the Reign of God.
Acts 19:25-28
So he got them together, along with the workmen who belonged to similar trades, and said to them: "My men, you know this trade is the source of our wealth.
Acts 28:22
We think it only right to let you tell your own story; but as regards this sect, we are well aware that there are objections to it on all hands."
1 Corinthians 4:9-13
For it seems to me that God means us apostles to come in at the very end, like the doomed gladiators in the arena! We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men!