Acts 13:50
But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.
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Acts 13:50
But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.
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Genesis 34:19
The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.
Genesis 41:20
The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle;
Numbers 22:15
Balak again sent princes, more, and more honorable than they.
1 Samuel 22:14
Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, “Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, captain of your body guard, and honored in your house?
2 Kings 5:1
Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria; he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
1 Chronicles 4:9
Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him with sorrow.”
Isaiah 3:3
the captain of fifty, the honorable man, the counselor, the skilled craftsman, and the clever enchanter.
Isaiah 3:4
I will give boys to be their princes, and children shall rule over them.
Isaiah 3:5
The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the wicked against the honorable.
Isaiah 5:13
Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
Isaiah 23:8
Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?
Isaiah 23:9
Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
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Deuteronomy 32:20
He said, “I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.
Proverbs 14:12
There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
Isaiah 59:15
Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
Jeremiah 44:17
But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.
Matthew 17:17
Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”
Matthew 23:23
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
Luke 18:8
I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”
John 9:34
They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.
Romans 10:2
For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Romans 10:16
But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”
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.
Hebrews 6:6
and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.
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Joshua 10:1
Now when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them,
Joshua 10:2
they were very afraid, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.
Joshua 10:3
Therefore Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, saying,
Joshua 10:4
“Come up to me and help me. Let’s strike Gibeon; for they have made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.”
Joshua 10:5
Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together and went up, they and all their armies, and encamped against Gibeon, and made war against it.
Joshua 10:6
The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, “Don’t abandon your servants! Come up to us quickly and save us! Help us; for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill country have gathered together against us.”
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Judges 14:2
He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. Now therefore get her for me as my wife.”
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1 Kings 21:11
The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed them in the letters which she had written and sent to them.
1 Kings 21:12
They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
1 Kings 21:13
The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.
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1 Kings 22:8
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”
Psalms 37:33
Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.
Matthew 5:12
Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Matthew 24:10
Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.
Mark 13:9
“But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.
Luke 21:17
You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake.
Acts 20:23
except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.
Acts 20:24
But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.
Acts 23:12
When it was day, some of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
2 Corinthians 12:10
Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
James 5:10
Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
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Nehemiah 5:13
Also I shook out my lap, and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn’t perform this promise; even may he be shaken out and emptied like this.” All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.
Mark 6:11
Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!”
Luke 9:5
As many as don’t receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.”
Luke 10:10
But into whatever city you enter and they don’t receive you, go out into its streets and say,
Luke 10:11
‘Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’
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Psalms 2:1
Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
Acts 4:26
The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take council together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.’
Acts 4:27
“For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,
Acts 4:28
to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.
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Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.
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Proverbs 15:18
A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.
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1 Samuel 17:28
Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the evil of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”
1 Samuel 18:8
Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, “They have credited David with ten thousands, and they have only credited me with thousands. What can he have more but the kingdom?”
Isaiah 65:5
who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.
Matthew 20:11
When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,
Mark 15:10
For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up.
Luke 5:30
Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”
Luke 7:39
Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”
Luke 15:2
The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”
Romans 10:19
But I ask, didn’t Israel know? First Moses says, “I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation. I will make you angry with a nation void of understanding.”
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Amos 7:12
Amaziah also said to Amos, “You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there,
Mark 5:17
They began to beg him to depart from their region.
Acts 16:37
But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!”
Acts 16:38
The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,
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Jonah 4:1
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
Jonah 4:2
He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.
Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
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Matthew 10:16
“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
Matthew 10:17
But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.
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 10:19
But when they deliver you up, don’t be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.
Matthew 10:20
For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
Matthew 10:21
“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.
Matthew 10:22
You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
John 16:2
They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
Acts 9:16
For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”
Acts 20:19
serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;
Acts 22:23
As they cried out, threw off their cloaks, and threw dust into the air,
2 Corinthians 11:25
Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.
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Matthew 14:2
and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptizer. He is risen from the dead. That is why these powers work in him.”
Matthew 14:7
Therefore he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask.
Matthew 16:6
Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
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John 2:23
Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.
John 2:24
But Jesus didn’t entrust himself to them, because he knew everyone,
John 2:25
and because he didn’t need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.
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John 12:31
Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.
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Jeremiah 26:9
Why have you prophesied in Yahweh’s name, saying, ‘This house will be like Shiloh, and this city will be desolate, without inhabitant?’ ” All the people were crowded around Jeremiah in Yahweh’s house.
Matthew 27:20
Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus.
Acts 5:17
But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy
Acts 5:18
and laid hands on the apostles, then put them in public custody.
Acts 5:26
Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.
Acts 5:27
When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them,
Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.
Acts 16:21
and advocate customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans.”
Acts 17:7
whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”
Acts 17:8
The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.
1 Thessalonians 2:14
For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews
James 5:6
You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.
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Acts 8:4
Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around preaching the word.
Acts 9:1
But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
Acts 9:2
and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
Acts 9:13
But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem.
Acts 9:14
Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.”
Acts 12:1
Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.
Acts 12:2
He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.
Acts 12:3
When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread.
Acts 12:4
When he had arrested him, he put him in prison and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.
Acts 12:17
But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, “Tell these things to James and to the brothers.” Then he departed and went to another place.
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Acts 4:37
having a field, sold it and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
Acts 9:27
But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.
Acts 14:24
They passed through Pisidia and came to Pamphylia.
Acts 15:25
it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
Acts 15:38
But Paul didn’t think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and didn’t go with them to do the work.
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Acts 11:2
When Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who were of the circumcision contended with him,
Acts 11:3
saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men and ate with them!”
Acts 11:17
If then God gave to them the same gift as us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?”
Acts 11:18
When they heard these things, they held their peace and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”
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Acts 14:14
But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their clothes and sprang into the multitude, crying out,
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Acts 14:15
“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of the same nature as you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
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Luke 4:31
He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching them on the Sabbath day,
Acts 9:24
but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,
Acts 9:25
but his disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.
Acts 14:7
There they preached the Good News.
Acts 17:1
Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
Acts 17:2
Paul, as was his custom, went in to them; and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
Acts 17:3
explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”
Acts 17:10
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
Acts 17:11
Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
Acts 17:14
Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.
Acts 17:16
Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
Acts 18:4
He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
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Acts 19:24
For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen,
Acts 19:25
whom he gathered together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, “Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth.
Acts 19:26
You see and hear that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods that are made with hands.
Acts 19:27
Not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing and her majesty destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships.”
Acts 19:30
When Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples didn’t allow him.
Acts 19:31
Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.
Acts 19:32
Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn’t know why they had come together.
Acts 21:32
Immediately he took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.
Acts 21:34
Some shouted one thing and some another, among the crowd. When he couldn’t find out the truth because of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into the barracks.
Acts 21:35
When he came to the stairs, he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd;
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Acts 13:7
who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God.
Acts 17:15
But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.
Acts 20:1
After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia.
Acts 20:2
When he had gone through those parts and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece.
Acts 28:17
After three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, “I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,
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Romans 11:4
But how does God answer him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
Romans 11:5
Even so too at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
Romans 11:6
And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
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Zephaniah 3:12
But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.
Luke 2:35
Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”
1 Corinthians 1:27
but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.
1 Corinthians 1:28
God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist,
1 Corinthians 1:29
that no flesh should boast before God.
James 1:10
and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
Revelation 2:9
“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
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2 Corinthians 4:3
Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,
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2 Corinthians 4:4
in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
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Acts 25:2
Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him,
Romans 15:23
but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you,
2 Corinthians 4:10
always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
2 Corinthians 11:27
in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
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Matthew 13:21
yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
Matthew 23:15
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves.
Luke 11:52
Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”
Acts 15:1
Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”
Galatians 4:21
Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?
Galatians 6:12
As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised, just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
Galatians 6:17
From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body.
Ephesians 3:8
To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
Ephesians 3:13
Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.
2 Timothy 4:10
for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.
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