Psalm 69:8
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8 I have become a stranger to my kindred,
an alien to my mother’s children.(A)
Galatians 4:29
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29 But just as at that time the child who was born according to the flesh persecuted the child who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now also.(A)
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Acts 14:22
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22 There they strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying, “It is through many persecutions that we must enter the kingdom of God.”(A)
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Luke 12:51-53
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51 Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!(A) 52 From now on five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three; 53 they will be divided:
father against son
and son against father,
mother against daughter
and daughter against mother,
mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law
and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”(B)
Mark 4:6
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6 And when the sun rose, it was scorched, and since it had no root it withered away.
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Matthew 10:35-36
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35 For I have come to set a man against his father,
and a daughter against her mother,
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,(A)
36 and one’s foes will be members of one’s own household.(B)
Matthew 10:25
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25 it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher and the slave like the master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household!(A)
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Matthew 10:22
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22 and you will be hated by all because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.(A)
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Micah 7:6
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6 for the son treats the father with contempt,
the daughter rises up against her mother,
the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
your enemies are members of your own household.(A)
Lamentations 4:8
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8 Now their visage is blacker than soot;
they are not recognized in the streets.
Their skin has shriveled on their bones;
it has become as dry as wood.(A)
Jeremiah 12:6
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6 For even your kinsfolk and your own family,
even they have dealt treacherously with you;
they are in full cry after you;
do not believe them,
though they speak friendly words to you.(A)
Job 30:30
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30 My skin turns black and falls from me,
and my bones burn with heat.(A)
Ruth 1:19-21
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19 So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they came to Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women said, “Is this Naomi?” 20 She said to them,
“Call me no longer Naomi;[a]
call me Mara,[b]
for the Almighty[c] has dealt bitterly with me.(A)
21 I went away full,
but the Lord has brought me back empty;
why call me Naomi
when the Lord has dealt harshly with[d] me
and the Almighty[e] has brought calamity upon me?”(B)
Jeremiah 8:21
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21 For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am broken,
I mourn, and horror has seized me.(A)
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