6 Bible Verses about Abuse, To God's People

Some others sneered, "They are brim-full of new wine!"

and it astonishes them that you will not plunge with them still into the same flood of profligacy. They abuse you,

Blessed are you when men denounce you and persecute you and utter all manner of evil against you for my sake;

But on hearing of a 'resurrection of dead men,' some sneered, while others said, "We will hear you again on that subject."

But as they opposed and abused him, he shook out his garments in protest, saying, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am not responsible! After this I will go to the Gentiles."

I know your distress and your poverty (but you are rich!): I know how you are being slandered by those who style themselves Jews (no Jews are they, but a mere synagogue of Satan!).