10 Bible Verses about Troubling Groups Of People

and to them was power given, not to kill them, but to torment them five months: and their pain was like the pain which a scorpion produces when it strikes a man.

destruction and misery are in their ways:

I have confidence in you, that, through the Lord, you will be of the same mind with me, so that he who troubles you shall fall under the censure he deserves, whoever he be.

I wish they who unsettle you were entirely circumcised.

women recovered their children, tho' dead, by their being raised to life again: some expired under torments, refusing to be delivered; that they might obtain a better deliverance at the resurrection.

but not finding them, they dragg'd Jason and some of the brethren to the magistrates, crying out, these that have been every where the disturbers of the publick peace, are come hither also, and have been entertain'd by Jason.

having presented them to the Officers, they said, these men, who are Jews, raise great disorders in our city, and preach such maxims,

since it is agreeable to his justice to afflict those in their turn, who afflict you:

wherefore my opinion is not to disquiet the Gentile converts: but only to write to them,

Whereas we have been appriz'd, that some who went from us, have embarass'd you with their discourse, and unsettled your minds, maintaining, that you ought to be circumcised, and to observe the law, though we gave them no such injunction: after having been assembled,