I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city. They beat me and bruised me; they took away my cloak, those guardians of the walls.
I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city: “Have you seen the one I love?”
So then, I too was convinced that I ought to do all I could to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their ey
I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock.
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth, and My judgments go forth like l
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the ri
At this, they yielded to Gamaliel. They called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak
Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-hamon. He leased it to the tenants. For its fruit, each was to bring a thousand shekels o
as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.
On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD sha
Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil because of t
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, s
They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a
Let the righteous man strike me; let his rebuke be an act of loving devotion. It is oil for my head; let me not refuse i
“The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat.
And on her forehead a mysterious name was written: BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS
Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it,
The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have arrived—let Israel know it. The prophet is called a fool,
Still others endured mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishon