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Matthew 5:11
“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

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1 Kings 18:17
When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”

Esther 3:8
Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to allow them to remain.

Psalms 27:12
Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

Jeremiah 38:4
Then the princes said to the king, “Please let this man be put to death, because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them; for this man doesn’t seek the welfare of this people, but harm.”

Jeremiah 43:3
but Baruch the son of Neriah has turned you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death or carry us away captive to Babylon.”

Luke 23:2
They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

Acts 6:13
and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

Acts 16:20
When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, are agitating our city

Acts 17:6
When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

Acts 24:13
Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.

Acts 25:7
When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove,

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Psalms 32:1
Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

Psalms 119:1
Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

Matthew 16:17
Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

Luke 11:28
But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

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Matthew 10:18
Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

Matthew 10:23
But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man has come.

Matthew 10:24
“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.

Mark 8:35
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.

Mark 13:13
You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

John 17:14
I have given them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

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Psalms 69:7
Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.

Psalms 89:51
With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.

Matthew 5:13
“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

Matthew 27:39
Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads

John 8:48
Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”

John 9:28
They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

John 9:34
They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.

Romans 3:8
Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let’s do evil, that good may come?” Those who say so are justly condemned.

Galatians 4:29
But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

1 Peter 2:23
When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

1 Peter 4:19
Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

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John 16:4
But I have told you these things so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

2 Corinthians 12:9
He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

Philippians 2:17
Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.

2 Thessalonians 1:7
and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

Hebrews 12:2
looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

James 1:3
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

James 1:4
Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Revelation 7:14
I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering. They washed their robes and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

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