Habakkuk 1:13-14

13You who are aof purer eyes than to see evil
and cannot look at wrong,
bwhy do you idly look at traitors
and cremain silent when the wicked swallows up
the man more righteous than he?
14You make mankind like the fish of the sea,
like crawling things that have no ruler.

Acts 9:1

The Conversion of Saul

1But Saul, dstill ebreathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to fthe high priest

Acts 9:23

Saul Escapes from Damascus

23 gWhen many days had passed, the Jews
The Greek word Ioudaioi refers specifically here to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, who opposed the Christian faith in that time
plotted to kill him,

Romans 8:36

36As it is written,

i“For your sake jwe are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

Hebrews 11:36-38

36Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even kchains and imprisonment. 37 lThey were stoned, they were sawn in two,
Some manuscripts add they were tempted
nthey were killed with the sword. oThey went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated
38of whom the world was not worthypwandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

1 John 3:11-12

Love One Another

11For qthis is the message that you have heard from the beginning, rthat we should love one another. 12We should not be like sCain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? tBecause his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous.
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