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John 16:2
They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.
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John 7:13
Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.
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Luke 6:22
“ Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man!
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John 9:34
They answered him,“ You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?” And they cast him out.
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Acts 5:40
and when they had called in the apostles, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
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John 19:38
After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body.
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Isaiah 57:11
Whom did you dread and fear, so that you lied, and did not remember me, did not lay it to heart? Have I not held my peace, even for a long time, and you do not fear me?
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Luke 22:56-61
Then a servant girl, seeing him as he sat in the light and looking closely at him, said,“ This man also was with him.”But he denied it, saying,“ Woman, I do not know him.”And a little later someone else saw him and said,“ You also are one of them.” But Peter said,“ Man, I am not.”And after an interval of about an hour still another insisted, saying,“ Certainly this man also was with him, for he too is a Galilean.”But Peter said,“ Man, I do not know what you are talking about.” And immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed.And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the saying of the Lord, how he had said to him,“ Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.”
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Acts 5:13
None of the rest dared join them, but the people held them in high esteem.
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Acts 4:18
So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.
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John 7:45-52
The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them,“ Why did you not bring him?”The officers answered,“ No one ever spoke like this man!”The Pharisees answered them,“ Have you also been deceived?Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him?But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.”Nicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them,“ Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?”They replied,“ Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”
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John 20:19
On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them,“ Peace be with you.”
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John 12:42-43
Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue;for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.
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Luke 12:4-9
“ I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do.But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God.Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.“ And I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man also will acknowledge before the angels of God,but the one who denies me before men will be denied before the angels of God.
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Isaiah 51:7
“ Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear not the reproach of man, nor be dismayed at their revilings.
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Galatians 2:11-13
But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party.And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.
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Psalms 27:1-2
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall.
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Proverbs 29:25
The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.
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Isaiah 51:12
“ I, I am he who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass,
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Revelation 21:8
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”