"Even those closest to you--your parents, brothers, relatives, and friends--will betray you. They will even kill some of you. And everyone will hate you because you are my followers. But not a hair of your head will perish! By standing firm, you will win your souls."
"Even those closest to you--your parents, brothers, relatives, and friends--will betray you. They will even kill some of you."
Matthew 10:28
"Don't be afraid of those who want to kill your body; they cannot touch your soul. Fear only God, who can destroy both soul and body in hell."
Matthew 10:35-36 " 'I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in -law against her mother-in-law. Your enemies will be right in your own household!" (Micah 7:6)
Mark 13:12 "A brother will betray his brother to death, a father will betray his own child, and children will rebel against their parents and cause them to be killed."
Luke 12:52-53 "From now on families will be split apart, three in favor of me, and two against--or two in favor and three against. 'Father will be divided against son and son against father; mother against daughter and daughter against mother; and mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.' (Micah 7:6)"
John 16:1-3 "I have told you these things (chapter 15) so that you won't abandon your faith. For you will be expelled from the synagogues, and the time is coming when those who kill you will think they are doing a holy service for God. This is because they have never known the Father or me."
(parentheses are mine)
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