11 “Blessed are you when people insult you,(A) persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.(B)

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14 If you are insulted because of the name of Christ,(A) you are blessed,(B) for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

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17 Everyone will hate you because of me.(A)

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13 Everyone will hate you because of me,(A) but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.(B)

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“Then you will be handed over to be persecuted(A) and put to death,(B) and you will be hated by all nations because of me.(C)

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23 When they hurled their insults at him,(A) he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats.(B) Instead, he entrusted himself(C) to him who judges justly.(D)

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21 They will treat you this way because of my name,(A) for they do not know the one who sent me.(B)

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22 Blessed are you when people hate you,
    when they exclude you(A) and insult you(B)
    and reject your name as evil,
        because of the Son of Man.(C)

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22 You will be hated by everyone because of me,(A) but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.(B)

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Hear the word of the Lord,
    you who tremble at his word:(A)
“Your own people who hate(B) you,
    and exclude you because of my name, have said,
‘Let the Lord be glorified,
    that we may see your joy!’
    Yet they will be put to shame.(C)

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You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name,(A) and have not grown weary.

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39 Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.(A)

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35 For whoever wants to save their life[a] will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 8:35 The Greek word means either life or soul; also in verses 36 and 37.

29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife[a] or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.(A)

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  1. Matthew 19:29 Some manuscripts do not have or wife.

11 For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake,(A) so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body.

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10 We are fools for Christ,(A) but you are so wise in Christ!(B) We are weak, but you are strong!(C) You are honored, we are dishonored!

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12 “But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. They will hand you over to synagogues and put you in prison, and you will be brought before kings and governors, and all on account of my name.

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24 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.(A)

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25 It is enough for students to be like their teachers, and servants like their masters. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul,(A) how much more the members of his household!

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36 As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;
    we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”[a](A)

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  1. Romans 8:36 Psalm 44:22

16 I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.”(A)

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39 Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads(A)

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22 Yet for your sake we face death all day long;
    we are considered as sheep(A) to be slaughtered.(B)

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17 But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.

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28 Then they hurled insults at him and said, “You are this fellow’s disciple! We are disciples of Moses!(A)

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