Psalms 35:11

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.

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.

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

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.

“ ‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “ ‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.

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

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

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!

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,

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.

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

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.

They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you release this man, you aren’t Caesar’s friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!”

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

Gaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Isn’t he the son of Jerubbaal? Isn’t Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem, but why should we serve him?

He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?

Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.

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

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

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.

and said to them, “You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and behold, having examined him before you, I found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him.

whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”

Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.

Festus said, “King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, you see this man about whom all the multitude of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.

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.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

His brothers asked him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.

She spoke to him according to these words, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.

‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,’ says Yahweh; ‘and I will repay you in this plot of ground,’ says Yahweh. Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot of ground, according to Yahweh’s word.”

It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.

But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city. Disputes are like the bars of a fortress.

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.

Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.

“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.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?”

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

A man’s foes will be those of his own household.

and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,

Jesus answered them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” They marveled greatly at him.

Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”

They threw him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

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,

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

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.

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.

“If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,

Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim. The men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the middle of Ephraim, and in the middle of Manasseh.”

Rehoboam took a wife for himself, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse.

God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.

When he was in Benjamin’s gate, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans!”

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

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

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

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, “Behold, he has brought a Hebrew in to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.

Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”

David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’

Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.

The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.

because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.

The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.

Then Jeremiah said, “That is false! I am not defecting to the Chaldeans.” But he didn’t listen to him; so Irijah seized Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.

Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none.

and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove,

Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.