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- Isa 53:1-3 : 1 Who hath believed our message? and to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been revealed? 2 For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He was despised, and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we esteemed him not.
- 1 Cor 4:12 : 12 and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
- Acts 4:27-30 : 27 for of a truth in this city against thy holy Servant Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, were gathered together, 28 to do whatsoever thy hand and thy council foreordained to come to pass. 29 And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants to speak thy word with all boldness, 30 while thy stretchest forth thy {G4571} hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of thy holy Servant Jesus.
- Acts 7:52-60 : 52 Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them that showed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers; 53 ye who received the law as it was ordained by angels, and {G5442} kept it not. 54 Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. 55 But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, 56 and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God. 57 But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed upon him with one accord; 58 and they cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. 59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon [the Lord], and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. 60 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- John 15:14-196 verses80%
14Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which I command you.
15No longer do I call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I heard from my Father, I have made known unto you.
16Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and [that] your fruit should abide: that {G5100} whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
17These things I command you, that ye may love one another.
18If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before [it hated] you.
19If ye were of the world, the world would love {G302} its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore {G5124} the world hateth you.
- Matt 10:22-254 verses76%
22And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.
23But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone through the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
24A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.
25It is enough for the disciple that he be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more them of his household!
- John 16:1-44 verses75%
1These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be caused to stumble.
2They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you shall think that he offereth service unto God.
3And these things will they do, {G5213} because they have not known the Father, nor me.
4But these things have I spoken unto you, that when their hour is come, ye may remember them, how that I told you. And these things I said not unto you from the beginning, because I was with you.
- Matt 5:10-123 verses74%
10Blessed are they that have been persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11Blessed are ye when [men] shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you.
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- John 15:7-126 verses73%
7If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever {G1437} ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
8Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and [so] shall ye be my disciples.
9Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love.
10If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
11These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy may be in you, and [that] your joy may be made full.
12This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.
- John 15:23-253 verses72%
23He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
24If I had not done among them the works which none other did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
25But [this cometh to pass], that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
- John 16:32-332 verses71%
32Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is {G3568} come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and [yet] I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
33These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
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