2 They will excommunicate you; but a time is coming when everyone who kills you will think that he is offering God a service.
John 16:2 Cross References - CAB
Isaiah 65:5
5 who say, Depart from me, draw not near to me, for I am pure. This is the smoke of My wrath, a fire burns with it continually.
Isaiah 66:5
5 Hear the words of the Lord, you that tremble at His word; speak, our brethren, to them that hate you and abominate you, that the name of the Lord may be glorified, and may appear their joy; but they shall be ashamed.
Matthew 10:28
28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both the soul and the body in hell.
Matthew 24:9
9 Then they will hand you over to tribulation and they will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations, on account of My name.
Luke 6:22
22 Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude you, and shall revile you, and cast out your name as evil, because of the Son of Man.
John 4:21
21 Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father.
John 9:22
22 These things his parents said because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already that if anyone should confess that He was Christ, he would be excommunicated.
John 9:34
34 They answered and said to him, "You were completely born in sins, and do you teach us?" And they cast him out.
John 12:42
42 Nevertheless even from among the rulers many believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, lest they should be excommunicated;
Acts 5:33
33 But when they heard this, they were infuriated and were resolving to kill them.
Acts 6:13-14
Acts 7:56-8:3
56 and he said, "Behold! I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!"
Acts 9:1-2
1 Then Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
2 and requested from him letters of authority to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he should find any who were of the Way, both men or women, he might bring them, having been bound, to Jerusalem.
Acts 22:3-4
3 "I am indeed a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but having been brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been educated according to the exactness of the law of our forefathers, being zealous for God just as you all are today.
4 I, who persecuted this Way to death, binding and handing over to prisons both men and women,
Acts 22:19-23
19 "And I said, 'Lord, they know that in every synagogue I was imprisoning and beating those believing on You.
20 And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was shed, I myself was standing by consenting to his murder, and guarding the clothes of those murdering him.'
21 "Then He said to me, 'Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.' "
22 Now they were listening to him until this statement, and they lifted their voice saying, "Take away such a man from the earth, for it is not fitting for him to live!"
23 And as they were crying out and throwing off their clothes, and throwing dust in the air,
Acts 26:9-11
9 Therefore I thought in myself that it was necessary to do many hostile things against the name of Jesus the Nazarene;
10 which also I did in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I shut up in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were being put to death, I cast my vote against them.
11 And I punished them often in all the synagogues, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even as far as to foreign cities.
Romans 10:2-3
1 Corinthians 4:13
13 being defamed, we encourage; we have become as the sweepings of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.
Galatians 1:13-14
Philippians 3:6
6 with respect to zeal, persecuting the church; with respect to righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
Revelation 6:9
9 And when He opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held.