10 Bible Verses about Troubling Groups Of People

Yet they were not allowed to kill them, but it was ordered that those men should be tortured for five months. Their torture was like the torture caused by a scorpion when it stings a man.

Distress and trouble dog their steps,

I, through my union with the Lord, am persuaded that you will learn to think with me. But the man who is disturbing your minds will have to bear his punishment, whoever he may be.

I could even wish that the people who are unsettling you would go further still and mutilate themselves.

Women received back their dead raised to life. Some were tortured on the wheel, and refused release in order that they might rise to a better life.

And, not finding them there, they proceeded to drag Jason and some of the Brethren before the City Magistrates, shouting out: "These men, who have turned the world upside down, have now come here,

And took them before the Magistrates. "These men are causing a great disturbance in our town," they complained;

Since God deems it just to inflict suffering upon those who are now inflicting suffering upon you,

In my judgment, therefore, we should not add to the difficulties of those Gentiles who are turning to God,

As we had heard that some of our number had upset you by their assertions, and unsettled your minds--without instructions from us--