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John 16:2
They will ban you from the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service to God.
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John 7:13
Still, nobody was talking publicly about him for fear of the Jews.
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Luke 6:22
Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you, insult you, and slander your name as evil because of the Son of Man.
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John 9:34
“ You were born entirely in sin,” they replied,“ and are you trying to teach us?” Then they threw him out.
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Acts 5:40
After they called in the apostles and had them flogged, they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them.
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John 19:38
After this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus— but secretly because of his fear of the Jews— asked Pilate that he might remove Jesus’s body. Pilate gave him permission; so he came and took his body away.
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Isaiah 57:11
Who was it you dreaded and feared, so that you lied and didn’t remember me or take it to heart? I have kept silent for a long time, haven’t I? So you do not fear me.
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Luke 22:56-61
When a servant saw him sitting in the light, and looked closely at him, she said,“ This man was with him too.”But he denied it:“ Woman, I don’t know him.”After a little while, someone else saw him and said,“ You’re one of them too.”“ Man, I am not!” Peter said.About an hour later, another kept insisting,“ This man was certainly with him, since he’s also a Galilean.”But Peter said,“ Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.Then the Lord turned and looked at Peter. So Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him,“ Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.”
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Acts 5:13
No one else dared to join them, but the people spoke well of them.
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Acts 4:18
So they called for them and ordered them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.
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John 7:45-52
Then the servants came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them,“ Why didn’t you bring him?”The servants answered,“ No man ever spoke like this!”Then the Pharisees responded to them,“ Are you fooled too?Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in him?But this crowd, which doesn’t know the law, is accursed.”Nicodemus— the one who came to him previously and who was one of them— said to them,“ Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it?”“ You aren’t from Galilee too, are you?” they replied.“ Investigate and you will see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”[ The earliest mss do not include 7:53– 8:11.][
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John 20:19
When it was evening on that first day of the week, the disciples were gathered together with the doors locked because they feared the Jews. Jesus came, stood among them, and said to them,“ Peace be with you.”
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John 12:42-43
Nevertheless, many did believe in him even among the rulers, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, so that they would not be banned from the synagogue.For they loved human praise more than praise from God.
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Luke 12:4-9
“ I say to you, my friends, don’t fear those who kill the body, and after that can do nothing more.But I will show you the one to fear: Fear him who has authority to throw people into hell after death. Yes, I say to you, this is the one to fear!Aren’t five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten in God’s sight.Indeed, the hairs of your head are all counted. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.“ And I say to you, anyone who acknowledges me before others, the Son of Man will also acknowledge him before the angels of God,but whoever denies me before others will be denied before the angels of God.
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Isaiah 51:7
Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my instruction: do not fear disgrace by men, and do not be shattered by their taunts.
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Galatians 2:11-13
But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face because he stood condemned.For he regularly ate with the Gentiles before certain men came from James. However, when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, because he feared those from the circumcision party.Then the rest of the Jews joined his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.
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Psalms 27:1-2
The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom should I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life— whom should I dread?When evildoers came against me to devour my flesh, my foes and my enemies stumbled and fell.
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Proverbs 29:25
The fear of mankind is a snare, but the one who trusts in the LORD is protected.
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Isaiah 51:12
I— I am the one who comforts you. Who are you that you should fear humans who die, or a son of man who is given up like grass?
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Revelation 21:8
But the cowards, faithless, detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars— their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”