Ridicule

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

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.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

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.

The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort. — read the full passage →

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.’” — read the full passage →

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

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child, her mother, and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying.

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 →

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.

Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. — read the full passage →

There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.”

He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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 →

But one has somewhere testified, saying, “What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?

Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake.

Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.

Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?

Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.

Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.

Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense;

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”