Jeremiah 15:10
Sadness is mine! Why did my mother bring me into the world? I have to quarrel and argue with everyone in the whole earth. I have not lent any money or borrowed any; yet everyone curses me.
Exodus 22:25
When you lend money to any of my people who are poor, do not act like a moneylender and require him to pay interest.
Psalm 15:5
The one who does not collect interest on a loan or take a bribe against an innocent person. Whoever does these things will never fall or be upset.
Jeremiah 1:18-19
Today I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and a copper wall. You will be able to stand up to the whole land. You will be able to stand up to Judah's kings, its officials, its priests, and all the common people.
Jeremiah 15:20
I will make you a fortified wall of copper to these people. Though they fight against you, they will not prevail over you. For I am with you to save you and deliver you, declares Jehovah.
Jeremiah 20:7-8
O Jehovah, You have deceived me. I was deceived! You have overcome me and prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.
Leviticus 25:36
Do not collect interest or make any profit from him. Respect your God by respecting other Israelites' lives.
Deuteronomy 23:19-20
Do not charge interest to your brothers, interest on money, food, anything that may be loaned at interest.
1 Kings 18:17-18
Ahab saw Elijah. He said: Is it you, Israel's troublemaker?
1 Kings 21:20
Ahab said to Elijah: Have you come face to face with me, O my enemy? Elijah said: I have come to you because you have given yourself up to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah.
1 Kings 22:8
Ahab answered: There is one more, Micaiah son of Imlah. But I hate him because he never prophesies anything good for me, always something bad. The king should not say such things! Jehoshaphat replied.
Nehemiah 5:1-6
Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews.
Job 3:1-26
JOB OPENED HIS MOUTH and cursed the day of his birth.
Psalm 109:28
They may curse, but you will bless. Let those who attack me be ashamed, but let your servant rejoice.
Psalm 120:5-6
How horrible it is to live as a foreigner in Meshech or to stay in the tents of Kedar.
Proverbs 26:2
Like the bird by wandering, like the swallow by flying, so a curse without cause does not land.
Jeremiah 20:14-18
Cursed is the day when I was born. Let the day not be blessed when my mother bore me!
Ezekiel 2:6-7
Son of man, do not be afraid of them or the things they say. Do not be afraid, even though thorns and thistles are around you and you live among scorpions. Do not let the things they say frighten you. Do not be terrified in their presence even though they are rebellious people.
Ezekiel 3:7-9
But the people of Israel will refuse to listen to you because they refuse to listen to me. All the people of Israel are very stubborn and hardheaded.
Matthew 5:44
I say love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you!
Matthew 10:21-23
People will hand over their brothers to be put to death. Parents will oppose children and children will oppose parents, causing them to be put to death.
Matthew 24:9
People will cause you tribulation, and kill you. You will be hated by all the nations for my name's sake.
Luke 2:34
Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother: This child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel and for a sign that is spoken against.
Luke 6:22
Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they separate you from their company, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
Acts 16:20-22
They took them to the magistrates and said: These men, being Jews, cause great trouble in our city.
Acts 17:6-8
When they did not find them they dragged Jason and other brothers before the rulers of the city. They said: These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also.
Acts 19:8-9
He entered the synagogue and spoke boldly reasoning and persuading about the kingdom of God. He did this for three months.
Acts 19:25-28
They gathered together along with similar related workmen, and said: Sirs, You know we receive a good income from this business.
Acts 28:22
We desire to hear your opinion concerning this sect. We have knowledge that it is attacked in all places.
1 Corinthians 4:9-13
For I think that God has placed us apostles last as men appointed to death. We are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.