Matthew 21:33-41
"Listen to another figure. There was a land owner who planted a vineyard and fenced it in, and hewed out a wine-vat in it, and built a watch-tower, and leased it to tenants, and left the neighborhood.
Matthew 23:2
"The scribes and Pharisees have taken Moses' seat.
Matthew 23:29-36
"Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you build tombs for the prophets, and decorate the monuments of the upright,
Luke 6:22
"Blessed are you when people hate you and exclude you and denounce you and spurn the name you bear as evil, on account of the Son of Man.
John 16:2
They will exclude you from their synagogues; why, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is doing religious service to God.
Acts 5:40-41
They were convinced by him, and they called the apostles in and had them flogged, and warned them not to speak about the name of Jesus, and then let them go.
Acts 20:29-30
I know that after I am gone savage wolves will get in among you and will not spare the flock,
Acts 26:9-10
I once thought it my duty vigorously to oppose the cause of Jesus of Nazareth.
1 Corinthians 4:10-13
We are made fools of, for the sake of Christ, while you are men of sense, through being united with him. We are weak, you are strong. You are distinguished, we are despised.
2 Corinthians 11:13
Such men are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
Philippians 3:6
as to my zeal, I was a persecutor of the church; and by the Law's standard of uprightness, no fault could be found with me.
Hebrews 11:36-37
Still others had to endure taunts and blows, and even fetters and prison.
Hebrews 12:2
fixing our eyes upon Jesus, our leader and example in faith, who in place of the happiness that belonged to him, submitted to a cross, caring nothing for its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
1 Peter 4:14-16
If you are being abused for the sake of Christ, you are blessed, because the glorious Spirit of God is resting upon you.
Revelation 17:5-6
On her forehead there was written a name that was symbolic: "Mighty Babylon, mother of idolatresses and of earth's abominations."
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