6 Bible Verses about Abuse, To God's People

But there were some who said with a sneer: "They have had too much new wine."

And, because you do not run to the same extremes of profligacy as others, they are astonished, and malign you.

Blessed are you when people taunt you, and persecute you, and say everything evil about you--untruly, and on my account.

On hearing of a resurrection of the dead, some began jeering, but others said that they would hear what he had to say about that another time.

However, as they set themselves against him and became abusive, Paul shook his clothes in protest and said to them: "Your blood be on your own heads. My conscience is clear. From this time forward I shall go to the Gentiles."

I know your persecution and your poverty--yet you are rich! I know, too, the slander that come from those who declare that they are Jews, though they are not, but are a Congregation of Satan.