Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples: "If any man wishes to walk in my steps, let him renounce self, and take up his cross, and follow me.
John 15:19
If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world--that is why the world hates you.
John 16:2-3
They will expel you from their Synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will think that he is making an offering to God.
Acts 9:23-27
After some time the Jews laid a plot to kill Saul,
Acts 21:28
"Men of Israel! help! This is the man who teaches every one everywhere against our People, our Law, and this Place; and, what is more, he has actually brought Greeks into the Temple and defiled this sacred place."
2 Timothy 3:12
Yes, and all who aim at living a religious life in union with Christ Jesus will have to suffer persecution;
James 4:4
Unfaithful people! Do not you know that to be friends with the world means to be at enmity with God? Therefore whoever chooses to be friends with the world makes himself an enemy to God.
1 Peter 4:4
And, because you do not run to the same extremes of profligacy as others, they are astonished, and malign you.
Revelation 16:14
They are the spirits of demons, and perform marvels; they go to kings all over the world, to collect them for the battle on the Great Day of Almighty God.
Revelation 20:8-10
and he will come out to deceive the nations that live in 'the four corners of the earth--Gog and Magog.' He will come to gather them together for battle; and their number will be as great as the sand on the sea-shore.