Acts 7:52

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute?  They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers  you have now become.

Cross References

Matthew 5:12

Be glad and rejoice, because your reward is great in heaven. For that is how they persecuted   the prophets who were before you.

2 Chronicles 36:16

But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers,  despising his words,  and scoffing at his prophets, until the Lord’s wrath was so stirred up against his people that there was no remedy.

1 Kings 19:10

He replied, ‘I have been very zealous  for the Lord God of Armies, but the Israelites have abandoned your covenant,  torn down your altars,  and killed your prophets  with the sword. I alone am left,  and they are looking for me to take my life.’

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed the Lord Jesus  and the prophets and persecuted us.  They displease God and are hostile to everyone,

Jeremiah 2:30

I have struck down your children in vain; they would not accept discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a ravaging lion.

Revelation 19:10

Then I fell at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, ‘Don’t do that!  I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers and sisters who hold firmly to the testimony of Jesus.  Worship God, because the testimony of Jesus is the spirit  of prophecy.’

1 John 2:1

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate  with the Father #– #Jesus Christ the righteous one.

Acts 22:14

And he said, “The God of our ancestors has appointed  you to know his will, to see  the Righteous One,  and to hear the words from his mouth,

Nehemiah 9:26

But they were disobedient and rebelled against you. They flung your law behind their backs and killed your prophets who warned them in order to turn them back to you. They committed terrible blasphemies.

1 Peter 1:11

They enquired into what time or what circumstances the Spirit of Christ  within them was indicating when he testified in advance  to the sufferings of Christ  and the glories  that would follow.

Acts 4:10

let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead #– #by him this man is standing here before you healthy.

Acts 3:24

‘In addition, all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those after him, have also foretold these days.

Acts 3:18

In this way God fulfilled what he had predicted through all the prophets #– #that his Messiah would suffer.

Acts 2:23

Though he was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used  lawless people to nail him to a cross and kill him.

Zechariah 9:9

Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout in triumph, Daughter Jerusalem! Look, your King is coming to you; he is righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Jeremiah 26:23

They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who executed him with the sword and threw his corpse into the burial place of the common people.

Jeremiah 26:15

But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood  on yourselves, on this city, and on its residents, for it is certain that the Lord has sent me to speak all these things directly to you.’

Jeremiah 20:2

So Pashhur had the prophet Jeremiah beaten and put him in the stocks  at the Upper Benjamin Gate  in the Lord’s temple.

1 Kings 19:14

‘I have been very zealous for the Lord God of Armies,’ he replied, ‘but the Israelites have abandoned your covenant, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they’re looking for me to take my life.’

Revelation 3:7

‘Write to the angel of the church in Philadelphia: Thus says the Holy One, the true one,   the one who has the key of David, who opens and no one will close, and who closes and no one opens:

2 Chronicles 36:15

But the Lord, the God of their ancestors sent word against them by the hand of his messengers, sending them time and time again,  for he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place.

Luke 6:23

‘Rejoice in that day and leap for joy. Take note #– #your reward is great in heaven, for this is the way their ancestors used to treat the prophets.

John 16:10

about righteousness, because I am going to the Father   and you will no longer see me;

2 Timothy 3:4

traitors,  reckless,  conceited,  lovers of pleasure  rather than lovers of God,