Matthew 10:35

“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, ‘You must die, because you speak lies in Yahweh’s name;’ and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.

Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” There was division among them.

Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words.

You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.

I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.

Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men,

Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

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

“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”

You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.

There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.”

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.

My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.

Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might.

Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.

“Therefore Yahweh says concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy in Yahweh’s name, that you not die by our hand;’

For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together,” says Yahweh: “I will not pity, spare, or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.” ’ ”

I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Every man’s sword will be against his brother.

For ships of Kittim will come against him. Therefore he will be grieved, and will return, and have indignation against the holy covenant, and will take action. He will even return, and have regard to those who forsake the holy covenant.

“Those who are wise among the people will instruct many; yet they will fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder, many days.

For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land,” says Yahweh; “but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor’s hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.”

Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.

They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house.”

But he who hears, and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”

Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.

So a division arose in the multitude because of him.

“I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.

But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.

They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.

But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles.

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.

“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.