John 9:28

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

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.

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

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

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

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”

“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

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

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.

Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.

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

They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

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

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.

Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.

I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:

He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.

Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, will save it.

But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.

You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.

May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you.

Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name.

Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.

“Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”

Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.

But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.

In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks to your name forever.

“Don’t be afraid, for you will not be ashamed. Don’t be confounded, for you will not be disappointed. For you will forget the shame of your youth. You will remember the reproach of your widowhood no more.

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

Nevertheless even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,

Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.

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

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”

They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.

We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

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.