Luke 11:49
"For this reason also said the Wisdom of God. 'I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and some they will persecute;
1 Corinthians 1:30
It is of him that you are in Christ Jesus, whom God made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
Colossians 2:3
In Him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge!
1 Corinthians 1:24
but to those who are the called, whether Jews or Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God.
Matthew 22:6
"while the rest seized his slaves and maltreated and murdered them.
Matthew 23:34-36
"For this cause, behold! I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and pursue from city to city;
Luke 21:16-17
"You will be betrayed even by parents or brothers and kinsfolk, and friends.
Luke 24:47
"and that repentance unto remission of sins should be preached in his name unto all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
John 16:2
"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 1:8
"yet you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you are to be my witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and to the very ends of the earth."
Acts 7:57-1
With a loud outcry they stopped their ears, and rushed upon Stephen in a body,
Acts 8:3
But Saul was laying waste the church. He was wont to enter into every house, and to drag off men and women, and to commit them to prison.
Acts 9:1-2
Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
Acts 12:1-2
Now, at about that time, Herod the king put forth his hands to ill-treat certain members of the church;
Acts 22:4-5
"I persecuted to the death this way, continually binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women.
Acts 22:20
"'and when the blood of your martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by and consenting, and holding the garments of his murders.'
Acts 26:10-11
"And this also I did in Jerusalem. Armed with authority from the chief priests, I shut up many of the saints in prison, and when they were condemned to death I gave my vote against them.
2 Corinthians 11:24-25
Five times at the hands of the Jews, I have received one short of forty lashes.
Ephesians 4:11
It is he who made some men apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,