Luke 6:22
"Blessed are you when men shall hate you, And excommunicate you and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil because of the Son of man.
Matthew 10:22
"You will be hated by all men because of my name; and he who endures to the end shall be saved.
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.
John 12:42
Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed on him, but did not confess in on account of the Pharisees, for fear lest they be put out of the Synagogue.
Matthew 5:10-12
"Blessed are those who have been persecuted in the cause of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 10:18
"And you will be taken before governors and kings for my sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.
Matthew 10:39
"He who has saved his life shall lose it; and he who has lost his life for my sake shall find it.
Mark 13:9-13
"You yourselves must be on your guard. They will hand you over to the courts, and you will be flogged on the synagogues; and you will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, to witness to them for me.
Luke 20:15
"So they turned him out of the vineyard and killed him. "What will the master of the vineyard do to them?
Luke 21:17
"Some of you they will put to death. And you shall be hated by all men for the sake of my name.
John 7:7
"The world cannot hate you, but me it does hate, because I am bearing testimony against it, that its ways are wicked.
John 9:22-28
This his parents said because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if any one should confess that he was the Christ, he should be expelled from the synagogue.
John 9:34
They answered, "You were wholly born in sins, and do you teach us?" Then they cast him out.
John 15:18-21
"do not forget that it hated me first.
John 17:14
I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Acts 9:16
"for I am going to show him all he has to suffer for the sake of my name."
Acts 22:22
Until they heard this last statement, the people were listening to Paul, but now they roared out. "Away with such a fellow from the earth! He is not fit to live!"
Acts 24:5
"For we have found this fellow a pest, an inciter of insurrection among all the Jews of the empire, and a ringleader in the heresy of the Nazarenes.
1 Corinthians 4:10-11
For Christ's sake we are fools, but you are quite philosophic in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are outcast.
2 Corinthians 11:23-26
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as though I were beside myself), such, far, more, am I; in labors more abundant, in imprisonments also more abundant, in floggings beyond measure, in deaths often.
Philippians 1:28-30
and in no way terrorized by its enemies. For you fearlessness is a clear indication of coming ruin for them, but of salvation for you at the hands of God.
1 Thessalonians 2:14-15
For you, brothers, began to follow the example of the churches of God in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus; and you in your turn suffered at the hands of your fellow citizens persecutions like to those which they endured from the Jews??15 The men who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out??hey are displeasing to God, and are the enemies of all mankind.
2 Timothy 3:11-12
as well as the persecutions and sufferings which befell me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. You know all the persecutions I endured, and how the Lord delivered me out of them all!
1 Peter 2:19-20
For it is an acceptable thing to God, if from a sense of duty to him, a man endures a wrong, even suffering unjustly.
1 Peter 3:14
But even if you should suffer in behalf of righteousness, you are happy. Do not be afraid of their terror, neither be troubled.
1 Peter 4:12-16
Do not think it strange, beloved, that a fiery ordeal has come to test you, as though some surprising thing had befallen you.