Acts 17:6-8
17:6 When they did not find them, they dragged
Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials,
screaming, “These people who have stirred up trouble
throughout the world
have come here too,
17:7 and
Jason has welcomed them as guests! They
are all acting against Caesar’s
decrees, saying there is another king named
Jesus!”
17:8 They caused confusion among
the crowd and the city officials
who heard these things.
Acts 28:22
28:22 But we would like to hear from you what you think, for regarding this sect we know
that people
everywhere speak against
it.”
Acts 28:1
Paul on Malta
28:1 After we had safely reached shore, we learned that the island was called Malta.
Acts 18:17-18
18:17 So they all seized Sosthenes, the president of the synagogue,
and began to beat
him in front of the judgment seat.
Yet none of these things were of any concern
to Gallio.
Paul Returns to Antioch in Syria
18:18 Paul, after staying many more days in Corinth, said farewell to the brothers and sailed away to Syria accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. He had his hair cut off at Cenchrea because he had made a vow.
Matthew 2:3
2:3 When King Herod
heard this he was alarmed, and all Jerusalem with him.
John 15:18-20
The World’s Hatred
15:18 “If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.
15:19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.
15:20 Remember what I told you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too.
Romans 12:2
12:2 Do not be conformed
to this present world,
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve
what is the will of God – what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.
James 4:4
4:4 Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy.