And these things they will do to you because they do not know the Father nor Me.

because I have borne reproach for Your sake, shame has covered my face.

Hear the Word of Jehovah, you who tremble at His Word: Your brothers who hated you, who cast you out because of My name, said, Let Jehovah be glorified. But He will appear for your joy, and they shall be ashamed.

Blessed are you when they shall revile and persecute you, and shall say every evil word against you falsely because of Me.

And you will be brought before governors and kings for My sake, for a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.

And you will be hated by everyone on account of My name. But he who endures to the end will be kept safe.

He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life on account of Me will find it.

Then they will deliver you up to affliction and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude you, and revile you, and cast out your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man.

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for My name.

but rejoice in so far as you partake of Christ's sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also rejoice with exceeding joy.

Then they said to Him, Where is Your Father? Jesus answered, You know neither Me nor My Father. If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also.

Jesus answered, If I glorify Myself, My honor is nothing. It is My Father who glorifies Me, of whom you say that He is your God.

for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your devotion, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the One to whom you show reverence without knowing, Him I proclaim to you:

So when they did not agree among themselves, they were dismissed after Paul had said one word: The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,

for the heart of this people has grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, that they should not see with their eyes nor hear with their ears, that they should not understand with their hearts and turn, and I should heal them.

And even as they do not like to have God in their full true knowledge, God gives them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

Awake to righteousness, and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak to your shame.

But also if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing,

For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus' sake.

in flaming fire giving full vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.

He who says, I know Him, and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.