Luke 6:22
Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they expel you from among them, and taunt you, and reject your Name as an evil thing--on account of the Son of Man.
Matthew 10:22
And you will be hated by every one on account of my Name. Yet the man that endures to the end shall be saved.
John 16:2
They will expel you from their Synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will think that he is making an offering to God.
John 12:42
Yet for all this, even among the leading men there were many who came to believe in Jesus; but, on account of the Pharisees, they did not acknowledge it, for fear that they should be expelled from their Synagogues;
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 brought before governors and kings for my sake, that you may witness for me before them and the nations.
Matthew 10:39
He who has found his life will lose it, while he who, for my sake, has lost his life shall find it.
Mark 13:9-13
See to yourselves! They will betray you to courts of law; and you will be taken to Synagogues and beaten; and you will be brought up before governors and kings for my sake, that you may bear witness before them.
Luke 20:15
So they threw him outside the vineyard and killed him. Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them?
Luke 21:17
And you will be hated by every one on account of my Name.
John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but it does hate me, because I testify that its ways are evil.
John 9:22-28
His parents spoke in this way because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that, if any one should acknowledge Jesus as the Christ, he should be expelled from their synagogues.
John 9:34
"You," they retorted, "were born totally depraved; and are you trying to teach us?" So they expelled him.
John 15:18-21
If the world hates you, you know that it has first hated me.
John 17:14
I have given them thy Message; and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world, even as I do not belong to the world.
Acts 9:16
I will myself show him all that he has to suffer for my Name."
Acts 22:22
Up to this point the people had been listening to Paul, but at these words they called out: "Kill him! A fellow like this ought not to have been allowed to live!"
Acts 24:5
We have found this man a public pest; he is one who stirs up disputes among the Jews all the world over, and is a ringleader of the Nazarene heretics.
1 Corinthians 4:10-11
We, for Christ's sake, are 'fools,' but you, by your union with Christ, are men of discernment. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are despised.
2 Corinthians 11:23-26
Are they 'Servants of Christ'? Though it is madness to talk like this, I am more so than they! I have had more of toil, more of imprisonment! I have been flogged times without number. I have been often at death's door.
Philippians 1:28-30
Without ever shrinking from your opponents. To them this will be a sign of their Destruction and of your Salvation--a sign from God.
1 Thessalonians 2:14-15
For you, Brothers, began to follow the example of the Churches of God in Judea which are in union with Jesus Christ; you, in your turn, suffering at the hands of your fellow-citizens, in the same way as those Churches did at the hands of the Jews--
2 Timothy 3:11-12
as well as of my persecutions, and of the sufferings which I met with at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. You know what persecutions I underwent; and yet the Lord brought me safe out of all!
1 Peter 2:19-20
For this wins God's approval when, because conscious of God's presence, a man who is suffering unjustly bears his troubles patiently.
1 Peter 3:14
Even if you should suffer for righteousness, count yourselves blessed! 'Do not let men terrify you, or allow yourselves to be dismayed.'
1 Peter 4:12-16
Dear friends, do not be astonished at the fiery trials that you are passing through, to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.