Luke 6:22
"Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject you as evil on account of the Son of Man!
Matthew 10:22
And you will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
John 16:2
They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.
John 12:42
Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue.
Isaiah 65:5
They say, 'Keep to yourself! Don't get near me, for I am holier than you!' These people are like smoke in my nostrils, like a fire that keeps burning all day long.
Isaiah 66:5
Hear the word of the Lord, you who respect what he has to say! Your countrymen, who hate you and exclude you, supposedly for the sake of my name, say, "May the Lord be glorified, then we will witness your joy." But they will be put to shame.
Matthew 5:10-12
"Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.
Matthew 10:18
And you will be brought before governors and kings because of me, as a witness to them and the Gentiles.
Matthew 10:39
Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life because of me will find it.
Mark 13:9-13
"You must watch out for yourselves. You will be handed over to councils and beaten in the synagogues. You will stand before governors and kings because of me, as a witness to them.
Luke 20:15
So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?
Luke 21:17
You will be hated by everyone because of my name.
John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.
John 9:22-28
(His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.
John 9:34
They replied, "You were born completely in sinfulness, and yet you presume to teach us?" So they threw him out.
John 15:18-21
"If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.
John 17:14
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
Acts 9:16
For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name."
Acts 22:22
The crowd was listening to him until he said this. Then they raised their voices and shouted, "Away with this man from the earth! For he should not be allowed to live!"
Acts 24:5
For we have found this man to be a troublemaker, one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
1 Corinthians 4:10-11
We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, we are dishonored!
2 Corinthians 11:23-26
Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.
Philippians 1:28-30
and by not being intimidated in any way by your opponents. This is a sign of their destruction, but of your salvation -- a sign which is from God.
1 Thessalonians 2:14-15
For you became imitators, brothers and sisters, of God's churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you too suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they in fact did from the Jews,
2 Timothy 3:11-12
as well as the persecutions and sufferings that happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, and in Lystra. I endured these persecutions and the Lord delivered me from them all.
1 Peter 2:19-20
For this finds God's favor, if because of conscience toward God someone endures hardships in suffering unjustly.
1 Peter 3:14
But in fact, if you happen to suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. But do not be terrified of them or be shaken.
1 Peter 4:12-16
Dear friends, do not be astonished that a trial by fire is occurring among you, as though something strange were happening to you.