Matthew 21:33-41
Listen to another parable. There was a householder who planted a vineyard, put a fence round it, dug a wine-vat inside it, and built a watchtower: then he leased it to vinedressers and went abroad.
Matthew 23:2
"The scribes and Pharisees sit on the seat of Moses;
Matthew 23:29-36
Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the tombs of the just,
Luke 6:22
Blessed are you when men will hate you, when they will excommunicate you and denounce you and defame you as wicked on account of the Son of man;
John 16:2
They will excommunicate you; indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will imagine he is performing a service to God.
Acts 5:40-41
They gave in to him, and after summoning the apostles and giving them a flogging, they released them with instructions that they were not to speak about the name of Jesus.
Acts 20:29-30
I know that when I am gone, fierce wolves will get in among you, and they will not spare the flock; yes.
Acts 26:9-10
I once believed it my duty indeed actively to oppose the name of Jesus the Nazarene.
1 Corinthians 4:10-13
We, for Christ's sake, are 'fools'; you in Christ are sensible. We are weak, you are strong; you are honoured, we are in disrepute.
2 Corinthians 11:13
'Apostles'? They are spurious apostles, false workmen ??they are masquerading as 'apostles of Christ.'
Philippians 3:6
in point of ardour a persecutor of the church, immaculate by the standard of legal righteousness.
Hebrews 11:36-37
others, again, had to experience scoffs and scourging, aye chains and imprisonment ??37 they were stoned, sawn in two, and cut to pieces; they had to roam about in sheepskins and goatskins, forlorn, oppressed, ill-treated
Hebrews 12:2
our eyes fixed upon Jesus as the pioneer and the perfection of faith ??upon Jesus who, in order to reach his own appointed joy, steadily endured the cross, thinking nothing of its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
1 Peter 4:14-16
If you are denounced for the sake of Christ, you are blessed; for then the Spirit of glory and power, the Spirit of God himself, is resting on you.
Revelation 17:5-6
and on her forehead a name was written by way of symbol, "Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and of all abominations on earth."
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