Rejection

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.

Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake. — read the full passage →

“Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?’

Hownarrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. — read the full passage →

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, — read the full passage →

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.

Whoever doesn’t receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet.

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life — read the full passage →

Who, when he was cursed, didn’t curse back. When he suffered, didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;

The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”

We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair; — read the full passage →

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, “Follow me.” He got up and followed him. — read the full passage →

Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house.”

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, — read the full passage →

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. — read the full passage →

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ; — read the full passage →

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom, and these mighty works? — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. — read the full passage →

and, “a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”

Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Being warned in a dream that they shouldn’t return to Herod, they went back to their own country another way. — read the full passage →