Luke 6:22
Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they separate you from their company, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
Matthew 10:22
Men will hate you because of me. He who endures to the end will be saved.
John 16:2
They will throw you out of the synagogues. Yes, the hour comes that whoever kills you will think that he offered service to God.
John 12:42
Many of the rulers believed in him, although they did not confess their faith because of the Pharisees, for they would be expelled from the synagogue.
Isaiah 65:5
They say: 'Keep away! Do not come near me, for I am too sacred for you! Such people are smoke in my nostrils, a fire that keeps burning all day.'
Isaiah 66:5
Listen to the word of Jehovah, all who tremble at his word. Your brothers, who hate you, exclude you because of my name. They say: Let Jehovah show his glory and then we will see your joy. But they will be put to shame.
Matthew 5:10-12
Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 10:18
You will be taken before governors and kings for my sake. This will serve as a testimony to them and to the people of the nations.
Matthew 10:39
Whoever finds his life will lose it. Whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
Mark 13:9-13
Be on guard for they will deliver you up to courts. You will be beaten in the meeting places. You will be taken before governors and kings for a testimony to them for my sake.
Luke 20:15
They threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What will the owner of the vineyard do to them?
Luke 21:17
Men will hate you because of my name.
John 7:7
The world has no reason to hate you. But it hates me because I testify that its works are evil.
John 9:22-28
The parents said these things because they feared the Jews. The Jews had agreed that if any man should confess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
John 9:34
They answered: You were born in sin and you teach us? Then they threw him out.
John 15:18-21
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
John 17:14
I gave them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Acts 9:16
I will show him plainly how many things he must suffer for my name.
Acts 22:22
The people listened to Paul until he said this. Then they shouted at the top of their voices: Away with him! Kill him! He is not fit to live!
Acts 24:5
We have found this man to be a troublemaker who stirs up sedition (resists lawful authority) among all the Jews throughout the world. He is 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 honorable, but we are despised.
2 Corinthians 11:23-26
Are they ministers of Christ? I speak as a fool. I am more in labors more abundant, beaten beyond number, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.
Philippians 1:28-30
Do not be frightened by opponents. This is evidence of destruction for them and salvation for you from God.
1 Thessalonians 2:14-15
You brothers became imitators of the congregations of God that are in Judea in Christ Jesus. You also suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews.
2 Timothy 3:11-12
and also persecutions and sufferings. The things that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured. Out of them the Lord delivered me.
1 Peter 2:19-20
For this is to your credit to suffer wrongfully and endure grief because of your conscience toward God.
1 Peter 3:14
Even if you suffer for righteousness' sake, you are blessed. Do not fear! Do not be troubled (distressed) (intimidated)!
1 Peter 4:12-16
Beloved ones do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, for it comes upon you like a test, as though some strange thing were happening to you.