2 Esdras 16:70: "For there shall be in every place, and in the next cities, a great insurrection upon those that fear the Lord."

2 Esdras 16:71: "They shall be like mad men, sparing none, but still spoiling and destroying those that fear the Lord."

John 15:18: "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you."

John 15:19: "If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you."

John 15:20: "Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also."

John 15:21: "But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me."

John 15:22: "If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin."

John 15:23: "He that hateth me hateth my Father also."

John 15:24: "If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father."

John 15:25: "But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause."

Luke 6:22: "Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake."

Luke 6:23: "Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets."