Bible Cross References
the remnant
Matthew 5:10-12
10
"Happy are those who are persecuted because they do what God requires; the Kingdom of heaven belongs to them!
11
"Happy are you when people insult you and persecute you and tell all kinds of evil lies against you because you are my followers.
12
Be happy and glad, for a great reward is kept for you in heaven. This is how the prophets who lived before you were persecuted.
Matthew 10:12-18
12
When you go into a house, say, 'Peace be with you.'
13
If the people in that house welcome you, let your greeting of peace remain; but if they do not welcome you, then take back your greeting.
14
And if some home or town will not welcome you or listen to you, then leave that place and shake the dust off your feet.
15
I assure you that on the Judgment Day God will show more mercy to the people of Sodom and Gomorrah than to the people of that town!
16
"Listen! I am sending you out just like sheep to a pack of wolves. You must be as cautious as snakes and as gentle as doves.
17
Watch out, for there will be those who will arrest you and take you to court, and they will whip you in the synagogues.
18
For my sake you will be brought to trial before rulers and kings, to tell the Good News to them and to the Gentiles.
Matthew 10:22-25
22
Everyone will hate you because of me. But whoever holds out to the end will be saved.
23
When they persecute you in one town, run away to another one. I assure you that you will not finish your work in all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
24
"No pupil is greater than his teacher; no slave is greater than his master.
25
So a pupil should be satisfied to become like his teacher, and a slave like his master. If the head of the family is called Beelzebul, the members of the family will be called even worse names!
Matthew 21:35-39
35
The tenants grabbed his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
36
Again the man sent other slaves, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way.
37
Last of all he sent his son to them. 'Surely they will respect my son,' he said.
38
But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, 'This is the owner's son. Come on, let's kill him, and we will get his property!'
39
So they grabbed him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
Matthew 23:34-37
34
And so I tell you that I will send you prophets and wise men and teachers; you will kill some of them, crucify others, and whip others in the synagogues and chase them from town to town.
35
As a result, the punishment for the murder of all innocent people will fall on you, from the murder of innocent Abel to the murder of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.
36
I tell you indeed: the punishment for all these murders will fall on the people of this day!
37
"Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets and stone the messengers God has sent you! How many times I wanted to put my arms around all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me!
John 15:19
If you belonged to the world, then the world would love you as its own. But I chose you from this world, and you do not belong to it; that is why the world hates you.
John 15:20
Remember what I told you: 'Slaves are not greater than their master.' If people persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours too.
John 16:2
You will be expelled from the synagogues, and the time will come when those who kill you will think that by doing this they are serving God.
John 16:3
People will do these things to you because they have not known either the Father or me.
Acts 4:1-3
1
Peter and John were still speaking to the people when some priests, the officer in charge of the Temple guards, and some Sadducees arrived.
2
They were annoyed because the two apostles were teaching the people that Jesus had risen from death, which proved that the dead will rise to life.
3
So they arrested them and put them in jail until the next day, since it was already late.
Acts 5:40
They called the apostles in, had them whipped, and ordered them never again to speak in the name of Jesus; and then they set them free.
Acts 5:41
As the apostles left the Council, they were happy, because God had considered them worthy to suffer disgrace for the sake of Jesus.
Acts 7:51-57
51
"How stubborn you are!" Stephen went on to say. "How heathen your hearts, how deaf you are to God's message! You are just like your ancestors: you too have always resisted the Holy Spirit!
52
Was there any prophet that your ancestors did not persecute? They killed God's messengers, who long ago announced the coming of his righteous Servant. And now you have betrayed and murdered him.
53
You are the ones who received God's law, that was handed down by angels---yet you have not obeyed it!"
54
As the members of the Council listened to Stephen, they became furious and ground their teeth at him in anger.
55
But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw God's glory and Jesus standing at the right side of God.
56
"Look!" he said. "I see heaven opened and the Son of Man standing at the right side of God!"
57
With a loud cry the Council members covered their ears with their hands. Then they all rushed at him at once,
Acts 8:1
And Saul approved of his murder. That very day the church in Jerusalem began to suffer cruel persecution. All the believers, except the apostles, were scattered throughout the provinces of Judea and Samaria.
1 Thessalonians 2:14
Our friends, the same things happened to you that happened to the churches of God in Judea, to the people there who belong to Christ Jesus. You suffered the same persecutions from your own people that they suffered from the Jews,
1 Thessalonians 2:15
who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us. How displeasing they are to God! How hostile they are to everyone!