Acts 26:20
but announced first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works worthy of repentance.
Luke 10:16
He that hears you, hears me; and he that rejects you, rejects me; and he that rejects me, rejects him that sent me.
Luke 13:34-35
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent to thee: how often have I desired to gather thy children together, as a bird gathers her young under her wings, and you refused.
1 Thessalonians 4:8
Therefore, he that despises, despises not man, but God, who has given us his Holy Spirit.