Nehemiah 6:19
Furthermore, they kept reporting Tobiah's good deeds to me, and kept repeating what I told him. Tobiah kept sending letters to intimidate me.
Nehemiah 6:9
For they all were trying to make us afraid by saying, "Their hands will become tired from laboring, so the work won't be completed." "Therefore, LORD, strengthen my hands!"
Nehemiah 6:13
He had been hired to make me afraid so I would sin by doing what he suggested. Then they could create a slanderous report to use against me.
Proverbs 28:4
Those who forsake the Law praise the wicked, but whoever keeps it fights them.
Isaiah 37:10-14
When he heard it, he returned and sent messengers to Hezekiah: "Say this to Hezekiah king of Judah: "Don't let your God on whom you depend deceive you when he says, "Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria."
John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its actions are evil.
John 15:19
If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as one of its own. But because you do not belong to the world and I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.
Acts 4:18-21
So they called Peter and John back in and ordered them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.
1 John 4:5
These people belong to the world. That is why they speak from the world's perspective, and the world listens to them.