6 Bible Verses about Abuse, To God's People

But others in derision were saying, "They are running over with new wine."

They are astonished that you are not still rushing hand in hand with them into the same excesses of profligate living, and they abuse you for it;

"Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and keep on falsely telling all sorts of evil against you for my sake.

But when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some sneered, but others said, "We will hear you again on this subject."

But as they opposed and abused him, he shook out his clothes in protest and said to them, "Your blood be upon your own heads! I am not to blame for it myself. Hereafter I am going to the heathen."

"I know your pressing trouble and poverty, but still you are rich; I know how you are abused by those who claim to be Jews although they are not, but are only a synagogue of Satan.