Matthew 23:34
"For this cause, behold! I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and pursue from city to city;
Matthew 10:16-17
"Behold, it is I who am sending you forth like sheep among wolves. Be then as serpents and as guileless as doves.
Matthew 10:23
"But when they persecute you in one city, flee to the next. In solemn truth I tell you that you shall not have completed the cities of Israel, before the Son of man comes.
Matthew 13:52
"Then," said he, "every scribe who has been instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his storehouse new things and old."
Acts 13:1
Now there were in the church in Antioch prophets and teachers; Barnabas and Symeon, surnamed "the Black," Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen, the foster-brother of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul.
Matthew 23:34-36
"For this cause, behold! I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and pursue from city to city;
Matthew 28:19-20
Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit;
Luke 11:49-51
"For this reason also said the Wisdom of God. 'I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and some they will persecute;
Luke 24:47
"and that repentance unto remission of sins should be preached in his name unto all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
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 20:21
Then Jesus said to them again. "Peace to you. As my Father has sent me forth, I also now am sending you."
Acts 1:8
"yet you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you are to be my witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and to the very ends of the earth."
Acts 5:40
They gave in to him; and called the apostles in, and after flogging them, released them, with instructions not to speak about the name of Jesus.
Acts 7:51-52
"Stiff-necked, uncircumcised in heart and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Ghost! As your fathers did, so do you.
Acts 7:58-59
dragged him outside the city, and stoned him, the witnesses throwing off their outer garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
Acts 9:1-2
Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
Acts 11:27
At that time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.
Acts 12:2
and beheaded James, the brother of John, with the sword.
Acts 14:19
And now a party of Jews came down form Antioch and Iconium, and after persuading the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.
Acts 15:32
And Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with many a good counsel.
Acts 22:19-20
"'Lord,' I replied, 'they themselves well know that I was beating and imprisoning in synagogue after synagogue those who believed in you,
1 Corinthians 2:6
Notwithstanding, among those who are mature I do teach philosophy; though not the philosophy of the present age, nor of its rulers who are coming to nought.
1 Corinthians 3:10
According to the grace of God vouchsafed me, like a skillful master-builder, I have laid a foundation; but another will be building upon it. Let each take heed how he builds on it.
1 Corinthians 12:3-11
Wherefore I want you to understand that no one who speaks in the Spirit of God says, "Jesus is accursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except in the Holy Spirit.
2 Corinthians 11:24-25
Five times at the hands of the Jews, I have received one short of forty lashes.
Ephesians 4:8-12
Thus it is said, When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive and gave gifts to men.
Colossians 1:28
Him I am ever proclaiming, warning every one and teaching every one, in all wisdom; that I may bring every man into his presence, full grown in Christ.
1 Thessalonians 2:16
They forbid me to speak to the Gentiles with a view to their salvation. They continue always to fill up the measure of their sins; but the wrath of God is come upon them to the full!
Hebrews 11:37
They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, persecuted, tormented??38 of whom the world was not worthy??andering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground.
Revelation 11:10
"And those who dwell on the earth are rejoicing over them, and making merry; and they will send gifts to one another; because these two prophets were a torment to those who dwell on the earth.