“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.
You will be hated by all for my name's sake.
And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.
“Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man!
When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.
But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
Hear the word of the Lord, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you and cast you out for my name's sake have said, ‘Let the Lord be glorified, that we may see your joy’; but it is they who shall be put to shame.
Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary.
And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.
For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.
As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake.
For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.
For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.
It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household.
For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.”
Yet for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.
“But be on your guard. For they will deliver you over to councils, and you will be beaten in synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them.
And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads
And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away.
and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them and the Gentiles.
And they reviled him, saying, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I do not know.
For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
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