Rejection

If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated you.

unto whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed of men, but with God elect, precious,

And he hath said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

He came unto his own, and they that were his own received him not.

He that heareth you heareth me; and he that rejecteth you rejecteth me; and he that rejecteth me rejecteth him that sent me.

casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you.

What then shall we say to these things? If Godisfor us, whoisagainst us?

There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.

Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

And my God shall supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

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

Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee.

Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake. — read the full passage →

Think not that I came to send peace on the earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

Wherefore receive ye one another, even as Christ also received you, to the glory of God.

For judgment is without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.

Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.

Jesus saith unto them, Did ye 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, And it is marvellous in our eyes?

For narrow is the gate, and straitened the way, that leadeth unto life, and few are they that find it.

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

If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated you. — read the full passage →

But this cometh to pass, that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

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 that hath endured such gainsaying of sinners against himself, that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls.

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

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my sayings, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I spake, the same shall judge him in the last day.

And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, as ye go forth out of that house or that city, shake off the dust of your feet.

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

who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:

The last enemy that shall be abolished is death.

Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.

we are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair; — read the full passage →

and he is before all things, and in him all things consist.

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

And as Jesus passed by from thence, he saw a man, called Matthew, sitting at the place of toll: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him. — read the full passage →

Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.

For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.

and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose, yea and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are:

but I say unto you, Love your enemies, and pray for them that persecute you;

rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing stedfastly in prayer;

And Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Beroea: who when they were come thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →

See that ye despise not one of these little ones: for I say unto you, that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Therefore he that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.

Brethren, I count not myself yet to have laid 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 commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. — read the full passage →

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

Blessedbethe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ: — read the full passage →

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

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

And coming into his own country he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works? — read the full passage →

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

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

and stedfastness, approvedness; and approvedness, hope:

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her own brood under her wings, and ye would not!

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;

In that hour came the disciples unto 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 only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Now when he was 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 offence; for they stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

inasmuch as he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

and Paul, as his custom was, went in unto them, and for three sabbath days reasoned with them from the scriptures,

And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way. — read the full passage →