09/10/2025
Matthew 10:22 AMP
[22] And you will be hated by everyone because of [your association with] My name, but it is the one who has patiently persevered and endured to the end who will be saved.
Matthew 5:11-12 AMP
[11] “Blessed [morally courageous and spiritually alive with life-joy in God’s goodness] are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil things against you because of [your association with] Me. [12] Be glad and exceedingly joyful, for your reward in heaven is great [absolutely inexhaustible]; for in this same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you. [2 Chr 36:16]
Acts 7:54-60 AMP
[54] Now when they heard this [accusation and understood its implication], they were cut to the heart, and they began grinding their teeth [in rage] at him. [55] But he, being full of the Holy Spirit and led by Him, gazed into heaven and saw the glory [the great splendor and majesty] of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God; [56] and he said, “Look! I see the heavens opened up [in welcome] and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!” [57] But they shouted with loud voices, and covered their ears and together rushed at him [considering him guilty of blasphemy]. [58] Then they drove him out of the city and began stoning him; and the witnesses placed their outer robes at the feet of a young man named Saul. [Acts 22:20] [59] They continued stoning Stephen as he called on the Lord and said, “Lord Jesus, receive and accept and welcome my spirit!” [60] Then falling on his knees [in worship], he cried out loudly, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them [do not charge them]!” When he had said this, he fell asleep [in death].
John 16:2-3 AMP
[2] They will put you out of the synagogues and make you outcasts. And a time is coming when whoever kills you will think that he is offering service to God. [3] And they will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.