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Acts 26:11
And I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to make them blaspheme, and in raging fury against them I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
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Isaiah 65:15
You shall leave your name to my chosen for a curse, and the Lord God will put you to death, but his servants he will call by another name,
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Psalms 69:20
Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.
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Psalms 89:51
with which your enemies mock, O Lord, with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed.
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Acts 7:54
Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him.
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Psalms 31:11-13
Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me.I have been forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.For I hear the whispering of many— terror on every side!— as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.
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Psalms 69:9-10
For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.When I wept and humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.
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Psalms 55:3
because of the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they drop trouble upon me, and in anger they bear a grudge against me.
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Psalms 2:1
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
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Acts 23:12-35
When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.There were more than forty who made this conspiracy.They went to the chief priests and elders and said,“ We have strictly bound ourselves by an oath to taste no food till we have killed Paul.Now therefore you, along with the council, give notice to the tribune to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case more exactly. And we are ready to kill him before he comes near.”Now the son of Paul’s sister heard of their ambush, so he went and entered the barracks and told Paul.Paul called one of the centurions and said,“ Take this young man to the tribune, for he has something to tell him.”So he took him and brought him to the tribune and said,“ Paul the prisoner called me and asked me to bring this young man to you, as he has something to say to you.”The tribune took him by the hand, and going aside asked him privately,“ What is it that you have to tell me?”And he said,“ The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though they were going to inquire somewhat more closely about him.But do not be persuaded by them, for more than forty of their men are lying in ambush for him, who have bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him. And now they are ready, waiting for your consent.”So the tribune dismissed the young man, charging him,“ Tell no one that you have informed me of these things.”Then he called two of the centurions and said,“ Get ready two hundred soldiers, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen to go as far as Caesarea at the third hour of the night.Also provide mounts for Paul to ride and bring him safely to Felix the governor.”And he wrote a letter to this effect:“ Claudius Lysias, to his Excellency the governor Felix, greetings.This man was seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them when I came upon them with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman citizen.And desiring to know the charge for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their council.I found that he was being accused about questions of their law, but charged with nothing deserving death or imprisonment.And when it was disclosed to me that there would be a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once, ordering his accusers also to state before you what they have against him.”So the soldiers, according to their instructions, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.And on the next day they returned to the barracks, letting the horsemen go on with him.When they had come to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they presented Paul also before him.On reading the letter, he asked what province he was from. And when he learned that he was from Cilicia,he said,“ I will give you a hearing when your accusers arrive.” And he commanded him to be guarded in Herod’s praetorium.
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Jeremiah 29:22
Because of them this curse shall be used by all the exiles from Judah in Babylon:“ The Lord make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,”
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Romans 15:3
For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written,“ The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”
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Luke 6:11
But they were filled with fury and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.