Matthew 21:33-41
"Listen to another story. There was once an owner of an estate who planted a vineyard and built a fence around it, and hewed out a wine-vat in it, and built a tower, and rented it to tenant farmers, and then went abroad.
Matthew 23:2
"The scribes and Pharisees have taken Moses' seat as teachers.
Matthew 23:29-36
"A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you build tombs for the prophets, and decorate monuments for the upright,
Luke 6:22
Blessed are you when people hate you and exclude you and denounce you, and spurn your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man.
John 16:2
Men will turn you out of their synagogues. Yes, indeed, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think that he is rendering a religious service to God.
Acts 5:40-41
They were convinced by him, and after calling the apostles in and having them flogged, they charged them to stop speaking on the authority of Jesus, and then turned them loose.
Acts 20:29-30
Because I know that after I have gone violent wolves will break in among you and will not spare the flock.
Acts 26:9-10
I myself, indeed, once thought it my duty to take extreme measures in hostility to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
1 Corinthians 4:10-13
For we have become a spectacle to the universe, to angels as well as men. For Christ's sake we are held as fools, while you through union with Christ are men of wisdom. We are weak; you are strong. You are held in honor; we in dishonor.
2 Corinthians 11:13
For such men are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
Philippians 3:6
by the standard set by zeal, I was a persecutor of the church, and measured by the uprightness reached by keeping the law, I was faultless.
Hebrews 11:36-37
Still others stood the test of taunts and tortures, and even chains and prisons.
Hebrews 12:2
keeping our eyes on Jesus, the perfect leader and example of faith, who, instead of the joy which lay before Him, endured the cross with no regard for its shame, and since has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
1 Peter 4:14-16
If you are suffering abuse because you bear the name of Christ, you are happy, because the glorious Spirit of God is resting upon you.
Revelation 17:5-6
On her forehead was written a name with a symbolical meaning, "Mighty Babylon, the mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations."
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