Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples. "If any man wishes to come after me, let him renounce self, take up his cross, and follow me.
John 15:19
"If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, for that reason the world hates you.
John 16:2-3
"They will excommunicate you from their synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will suppose that he is doing God's service.
Acts 9:23-27
And when many days were fulfilled the Jews made a plot to kill Saul;
Acts 21:28
"Men of Israel, help! This is the man who goes everywhere preaching to everybody against the people, and the Law, and this place. And he has actually brought Gentiles even into the temple, and has desecrated the holy place."
2 Timothy 3:12
Yes, and all who purpose to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
James 4:4
You adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whoever, then, desires to be a friend of the world, makes himself and enemy of God.
1 Peter 4:4
They are astonished at this, that you do not run into the same excesses of profligacy as they do; and they speak evil of you.
Revelation 16:14
For these are the spirits of demons performing miracles, who go forth to the kings of the habitable earth, to gather them together for the battle of the great Day of God, the Almighty.
Revelation 20:8-10
and will go forth to seduce the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to marshal them for war??heir number is like the sands of the sea.