10 Bible Verses about Troubling Groups Of People

And the locusts were not given the power to kill these people, but [only] to torture them for five months. And the torment they would inflict was like a scorpion stinging a person.

Their pathways are strewn with ruin and misery [i.e., caused by them].

[However], I have confidence in you, since we both have a relationship with the Lord, that you will not think differently [than I do] about this matter. But whoever is causing you trouble will be rightfully judged [and punished] for it.

I wish that those who are causing such a problem over wanting people to be circumcised would just mutilate themselves [while they are at it!].

Women received their dead [loved ones] back to life. Others were tortured but refused to be rescued, so they could obtain a better resurrection.

When they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials and shouted, "These men have turned the world upside down [i.e., disrupted society by their preaching] and have [now] come here also [i.e., to do the same thing in our community].

And when they brought them before the city officials, they made this charge [against them]: "These Jewish men are causing too much trouble in our city,

For it is a just thing for God to repay with affliction those people who are troubling you,

So, my advice is not to make it difficult for those who turn to God from among the Gentiles,

We have heard that certain [men] who left here have been upsetting you people and [even] undermining [some people's] spiritual lives by what they have been teaching. This was done without our authorization [or approval].