Luke 6:22
blessed are you, when men shall hate you, discard you, reproach you, and treat you as infamous, for your attachment to the son of man.
Matthew 10:22
and ye shall be hated by all the world for professing my name: but he that perseveres unto the end, shall escape.
John 16:2
they shall expel you out of the synagogues: yea, the time is coming, when it will be thought an agreeable sacrifice to God for any one to take away your lives.
John 12:42
nevertheless there were many even among the chief rulers, who believed on him; but they did not own it publickly for fear the Pharisees should excommunicate them.
Matthew 5:10-12
Blessed are they who are persecuted upon the account of righteousness: for their's is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 10:18
and ye shall be brought before governors and kings upon my account, to bear testimony of me to them and the rest of the Gentiles.
Matthew 10:39
he that would preserve his life, shall lose it: and he that exposeth his life for my sake, shall save it.
Mark 13:9-13
these are the beginning of sorrows. then look to your selves: for they will deliver you up to the tribunals, and scourge you in the synagogues: you will be brought before governours, and princes upon my account, to be my witnesses against them.
Luke 20:15
so they kill'd him, and threw him out of the vineyard. what punishment now will the master inflict upon them?
Luke 21:17
you will be hated by all mankind for professing my name,
John 7:7
the world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I plainly show, that their works are evil.
John 9:22-28
his parents said this, because they were afraid of the Jews: for the Jews had agreed in this, that if any man did own him for the Messias, he should be excommunicated.
John 9:34
they answered, you were a vicious fellow from your very birth, and do you pretend to preach to us? and then they excommunicated him.
John 15:18-21
if the world hate you, consider that it hated me before it hated you.
John 17:14
I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Acts 9:16
for I will make him see how much he must suffer for my name.
Acts 22:22
Till that word, the Jews had given their attention, but then they broke out into a full cry, "out of the world with such a fellow: for it is not fit he should live."
Acts 24:5
this man is known to be a pernicious fellow that goes about the world to raise seditions among the Jews: he is the ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,
1 Corinthians 4:10-11
we are made fools for our attachment to Christ, while you, who are christians too, still pass for the wise: we are in poverty, but you are in power: you meet with esteem, but we find contempt.
2 Corinthians 11:23-26
so am I: are they ministers of Christ? is it my vanity? I am more so: in toilsome labours I surpass them, in stripes I am exceedingly beyond them, in prisons I have been oftner, and frequently in the very jaws of death.
Philippians 1:28-30
without being under any the least apprehension from your adversaries: this will be to them a sign of their ruin, and to you of salvation, by the divine appointment.
1 Thessalonians 2:14-15
for, my brethren, you have followed the example of the christian churches in Judea; by having suffer'd the same persecutions from your own nation, as the churches have suffer'd from the Jews,
2 Timothy 3:11-12
my persecutions, and the sufferings that befel me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions did I endure? but the Lord deliver'd me out of them all: yes,
1 Peter 2:19-20
but even to the morose. for it is a recommendation to the divine favour, to suffer unjust persecution
1 Peter 3:14
However, if you suffer in the cause of virtue, it is your happiness: and instead of being over-awed by their threats, and struck with concern,
1 Peter 4:12-16
My dear brethren, don't be surpriz'd at your being brought as it were to the test of fire; as if some strange thing had happen'd to you.