Luke 6:22

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

When men

Separate

General references

John 15:18

Hebrews 13:13

Bible References

When men

Blessed are those who have been persecuted in the cause of righteousness, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

And you will be hated by every one on account of my Name. Yet the man that endures to the end shall be saved.

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.

The world cannot hate you, but it does hate me, because I testify that its ways are evil.

If the world hates you, you know that it has first hated me.

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.

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.

Without ever shrinking from your opponents. To them this will be a sign of their Destruction and of your Salvation--a sign from God.

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--

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!

For this wins God's approval when, because conscious of God's presence, a man who is suffering unjustly bears his troubles patiently.

Even if you should suffer for righteousness, count yourselves blessed! 'Do not let men terrify you, or allow yourselves to be dismayed.'

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.

Separate

So they threw him outside the vineyard and killed him. Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

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.

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;

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.

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!"

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.

General references

If the world hates you, you know that it has first hated me.

Therefore let us go out to him 'outside the camp,' bearing the same reproaches as he;