Psalms 69:7-9
7For it is afor your sake that I have borne reproach,that dishonor has covered my face.
8I have become ba stranger to my brothers,
an alien to my mother’s sons.
9 For czeal for your house has consumed me,
and dthe reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
Jeremiah 11:21
21Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the men of eAnathoth, fwho seek your life, and say, g“Do not prophesy in the name of the Lord, or you will die by our hand”—Jeremiah 15:10
Jeremiah’s Complaint
10 hWoe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! iI have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.Jeremiah 20:8
8For whenever I speak, I cry out,I shout, j“Violence and destruction!”
For kthe word of the Lord has become for me
la reproach and mderision all day long.
Matthew 5:10-12
10 n“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for otheirs is the kingdom of heaven.11 p“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely qon my account. 12 rRejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for sso they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Matthew 10:22
22 tand you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. uBut the one who endures to the end will be saved.Matthew 19:29
29 vAnd 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 ▼▼Some manuscripts manifold
and will xinherit eternal life. Luke 6:22-23
22“Blessed are you when ypeople hate you and when they zexclude you and revile you and aaspurn your name as evil, abon account of the Son of Man! 23 acRejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for adso their fathers did to the prophets.
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