qSee Acts 26:28
Isaiah 47:6
6 aI was angry with my people;I profaned my heritage;
I gave them into your hand;
byou showed them no mercy;
on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.
Isaiah 51:21
21 cTherefore hear this, you who are afflicted,who are drunk, but not with wine:
Daniel 9:16
16“O Lord, daccording to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, eyour holy hill, fbecause for our sins, and for gthe iniquities of our fathers, hJerusalem and your people have become ia byword among all who are around us.Matthew 5:11-12
11 j“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely kon my account. 12 lRejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for mso they persecuted the prophets who were before you.Hebrews 12:6-7
6For nthe Lord disciplines the one he loves,and chastises every son whom he receives.”
7It is for discipline that you have to endure. oGod is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
1 Peter 4:16-17
16Yet pif anyone suffers as a qChristian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God rin that name. 17For it is time for judgment sto begin at the household of God; and tif it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who udo not obey the gospel of God?
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