And to Abiathar the priest the king said, "Go to Anathoth, to your own fields, for you [are] deserving of death; but I will not put you to death at this time, because you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before my father David, and because you were afflicted every time my father was afflicted."

"Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name's sake.

"Remember the word that I said to you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.

"They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service.

"And these things they will do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me.

Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares [us,] and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.

"And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.

"I and [My] Father are one."

"While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

that the saying might be fulfilled which He spoke, "Of those whom You gave Me I have lost none."