Zechariah 11:8

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name’s sake, Yahweh; for our rebellions are many. We have sinned against you.

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

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!”

coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.

For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.

He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

so he will cleanse many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him; for they will see that which had not been told them, and they will understand that which they had not heard.

and say, ‘You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh! The Lord Yahweh says to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys: “Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places.

and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says to Jerusalem: “Your origin and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite. An Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.

“Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, yet don’t let Judah offend; and don’t come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beth Aven, nor swear, ‘As Yahweh lives.’

The rebels are deep in slaughter; but I discipline all of them.

But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

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

But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”

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.

He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.

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

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”

He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men’s bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.

The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘Yahweh’s Throne;’ and all the nations will be gathered to it, to Yahweh’s name, to Jerusalem. They will no longer walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

Then the princes said to the king, “Please let this man be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn’t seek the welfare of this people, but harm.”

that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.” ’

When I tell the righteous that he will surely live; if he trusts in his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed.

He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell among the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places;

If Gilead is wicked, surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls. Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.

I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

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.

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

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.”

They answered him, “If this man weren’t an evildoer, we wouldn’t have delivered him up to you.”

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.

God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.

His tabernacle is also in Salem; His dwelling place in Zion.

You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.

Yes, you didn’t hear. Yes, you didn’t know. Yes, from of old your ear was not opened, for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

“Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel,” says Yahweh.

A glorious throne, set on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.

You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

They are unfaithful to Yahweh; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you.

I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God.

Yahweh saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”

They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.

Yahweh examines the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and him who loves violence.

When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel,

But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.

Therefore Yahweh burned with anger against his people. He abhorred his inheritance.

A righteous man hates lies, but a wicked man brings shame and disgrace.

A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.

My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.

My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest. She has uttered her voice against me. Therefore I have hated her.

Do not abhor us, for your name’s sake. Do not disgrace the throne of your glory. Remember, and don’t break your covenant with us.

The wind will feed all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Surely then you will be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.

So she uncovered her prostitution and uncovered her nakedness. Then my soul was alienated from her, just like my soul was alienated from her sister.

You will stumble in the day, and the prophet will also stumble with you in the night; and I will destroy your mother.

“All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels.

“The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself,” says Yahweh, the God of Armies: “I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.

Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, you nation that has no shame,

A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.

Pilate said to them, “What then shall I do to Jesus, who is called Christ?” They all said to him, “Let him be crucified!”

Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees, and the elders, said,

But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’

But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.

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

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

The arrogant will not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!