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Old Mother Shudders

An essay by Old Mother Shudders, as provided by Tom McGee Art by Leigh Legler

There was a time when everyone knew to come to me for advice … but then my hair began to grey, my back began to stoop, my hands, once so strong, so capable, became frail and wrinkled. I began to shake, to tremble as my joints seized up one-by-one. Needed my ancient cane to prop myself up.

In a word, I got old.

“Old Mother Shudders” they began to call me. The kids at first, then the adults … then even I accepted it. If you live as long as I have, you carry many names: daughter, mother, wife … you come to realize that perhaps names don’t mean as much as we think.

What does matter is what we do.

I tell you all this, because I want you to understand what happened the night the women and children stayed home.

The night the lycanthropes returned.

The evening was bitterly cold, the kind of cold that gets deep into your bones no matter how much you bundle up, no matter how close you sit to the fire. There was an air of panic and agitation in our village. For years the mayor and the “elders” (a pack of ninnies several years my junior and very self-important) were convinced that the lycanthropes were gone for good. The last werewolf we’d seen had been in my youth, long enough ago that the hunters and village councilmen could pretend we were safe.

You live long enough, you come to realize we’re never really safe.

You learn to be ready.

When the first little girl went missing, the village councilmen were happy to concoct all manner of excuses and justifications, anything to avoid facing the truth: the monsters had returned.

Little girls don’t just go missing without reason on the night of the full moon around these parts.

Of course, when I told them that, they all ignored me.

“Crazy Old Mother Shudders,” they laughed, “Wants to live in the superstitious past. We’re modern people. All that unpleasantness is behind us.”

It took four more deaths before the word “lycanthrope” was even mentioned by anyone other than me.

We could hear them, stalking the woods. Howling. Waiting for the coming of the Long Night when the full moon would hang in the sky for hours and hours. It only happens once every seventy years … how could there be any doubt that the lycanthropes were just biding their time?

But now, of course, it was too late: they had claimed too many of our number, turned them. The remaining able-bodied men decided they had to take the fight to the monsters, before the Long Night began.

I offered advice on hunting the beasts as given to me by my grandmother, passed down from generation to generation, but of course they didn’t have time for me.

“Not now, Old Mother Shudders! The time for fables and fairy tales is over. Now is a time for steel and fire!” They declared, arming themselves and setting out to end the threat “once and for all.”

“The women and children stay home,” the lead huntsman declared and then they were gone, off into the woods.

The Long Night began early that year.

But where the men of the village had not the time nor care for the stories of an old woman, the women and the children listened. And listened well.

And so when the lycanthropes came for us, we were ready.

“Like this, Mother Shudders?” The little girl with flaxen hair handled the herb carefully, wearing gloves and placing it into the small stone basin. I nodded to her mother, who began grinding the herb with the pestle, into a fine powder–fine enough to be inhaled. We should have enough wolfsbane powder to defeat the creatures, but a little more can’t hurt.

“Just be ready to throw when you can smell the rot of their breath,” I told them. “It’s vital you wait until they are that close before you throw.”

The little girl nodded very solemnly. She would do well tonight.

We could hear them, in the woods, getting closer. The wolves had seen the hated fire leave held aloft in the hands of our clueless husbands, brothers, sons, and fathers. Fire is effective, to be sure, but it’s too obvious: every creature, living and undead knows inherently to avoid flame, why rely on something we fundamentally know to fear?

Better to hit them with the things do not yet know they should fear.

Amongst the sewing, weaving, and leatherwork the women of the village do, I’ve been having them make these pouches out of scraps. They’ve been doing it since the first little girl went missing, and now we have plenty. The powder bombs will buy us vital time to close the distance.

Then comes the silver.

The night is long, The wolves are fierce, Hands be strong, Their hearts to pierce.

When the children came to me and asked to hear the old tales, the ones that about monsters and genies and witches and faeries … the tales that actually teach you the important things in life, I made sure to always stress the importance of silver. Their parents would covet silver for status and vanity–mirrors and utensils, mostly. Nary a dagger or sword left amongst them–nothing so practical left unsold since the olden days.

And so, I told the children: when the day comes, when the monsters step out of myth and onto our doorstep, you must run and bring all the silver you can, no matter how unlikely its shape, for it is the silver that will save us all.

The children listened.

When the Long Night arrived, they brought it: spoons, forks, mirrors, combs, and best of all, knifes. We made a grand pile, and each person in the village took one. The one they’d use, when the time came.

I had already showed them how to use it, how to press it to the heart of the wolf and say the rhyme the whole way through. The one I’d taught them as it had been taught to me. As I had taught it to their parents, not that they’d remember it now.

The night is long, The wolves are fierce, Hands be strong, Their hearts to pierce.

It was the exact length of time it took silver to burn through a lycanthrope’s chest and into its heart. Decapitation works too, but takes more work than is strictly necessary.

And so, armed with powder bombs, silver, and tales of monsters defeated and vanquished through valour and bravery by clever little people just like them, the children stood side-by-side with their mothers, grandmothers, and a little old lady, who shook gently and leaned on her ancient cane. My ancient cane.

Made entirely of silver.

In our lives, we carry many names–I am told that the monsters still have many for me. To the lycanthropes, I am Wolfsbane. They made a mistake, coming back here; I have killed hundreds of their kind.

It would seem that the lycanthropes have forgotten that their monsters, too, are real.

Together, we spend the Long Night reminding them.

The men returned in the morning, having gotten lost in the woods, to find their women and children enjoying breakfast, telling tales of our heroic exploits, and drying dozens of wolf pelts by the fire.

To say our heroic huntsman and the village council were humbled would be an understatement, but true nevertheless.

They were eying our food hungrily and our wolf pelts sheepishly. We’d made enough for them, of course.

We’re good at planning ahead.

As we ate, I agreed to tell them the stories they had forgotten if they vowed never again to disregard the lessons of age and the wisdom of stories.

Gathering at my feet as they did when they were young, we defenders of the village shared our stories and laughed and cried.

Together.

So that, little ones, is why you must carry garlic in your pockets tonight and help your parents sharpen the stakes. You know the story of the night the women and children saved home, but now it will be up to you. When the Long Night comes, the undead will follow. Wrap yourself tight in your wolf cloaks, they will keep you warm and make you brave.

Oh, do be a dear and bring the silver.

It works on vampyrs, too.

Once a feared and fearsome monster hunter, Old Mother Shudders now spends her times teaching the children of her village the important stories (which is, of course, to say the ones about monsters, genies, ghosts, and faeries), ensuring that whenever evil rears its head, her people will be ready. If you were to ask any of the monsters of the realm their thoughts, you’d hear all manner of fables about Old Mother Shudders as well … after all, even monsters have a boogeyman.

Tom McGee is a Toronto-based writer, playwright, producer, dramaturge, and puppeteer. If you enjoyed this story, check out Tom’s first novel, The Bloody Lullaby, on Wattpad! He is the co-founder of Theatre Brouhaha and Shakey-Shake and Friends Puppet Shakespeare Company in Toronto. He is also the show runner and Game Master for Dumb-Dumbs and Dragons and Star Trek: Redundancy, two narrative podcasts where comedians play RPGs for the first time with hilarious, disastrous, and occasionally heartbreaking results. Both podcasts are available at GarbageProductions.net and on iTunes. For more of Tom’s writing, go to WhaHappen.ca.

Leigh’s professional title is “illustrator,” but that’s just a nice word for “monster-maker,” in this case. More information about them can be found at http://leighlegler.carbonmade.com/.

Old Mother Shudders was originally published on Mad Scientist Journal

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thefandomfires · 7 years

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'Archer'

(This is loosely based on Captain America: the Winter Soldier and Alec getting dragged away in episode 19 of season 2 of Shadowhunters.)

The last time Alec Lightwood was seen was almost 70 years ago when he went missing during a mission. He, his sister Isabelle, his friend Clary, and his parabatai Jace had gone after Jonathan and Valentine. They had split into pairs Izzy with Clary and Alec with Jace. As they were searching, Jace and Alec were ambushed by a group of Forsaken mundanes that Valentine and Jonathan had turned. While they were fighting Alec had gotten grabbed by what Jace thought was a Forsaken. Before he could save his parabatai though he was attacked by Jonathan who put a chain around his neck and dragged him away. Some time later, after Jace and Izzy killed Jonathan, Clary showed up alone. They searched the graveyard for hours before heading back to the Institute to inform the Clave and Downworlders of what happened. They continued to search for Alec for weeks. Asking for the help of the werewolves, warlocks, and vampires to find him. The werewolves couldn't find his scent, the warlocks couldn't track him, and the vampires couldn't find him in any part of New York. Jace knew he was alive and in unimaginable pain. He could feel it through their bond. He tried tracking him through the bond but it didn't give him even a glimpse of where Alec was or who had him. After a month of searching the Clave gave up and declared him dead. On that same day the bond just stopped. Jace could no longer feel Alec's pain or fear. It was just...cold. Jace, Izzy, Magnus, and Clary didn't stop looking. If they even had the smallest lead as to where Alec was, they followed it. That was until the leads stopped after about a year. Jace and Izzy never gave up hope that they'd see their friend and brother again. Magnus never gave up hope that he'd see his boyfriend again, even if they hadn't been on the best terms when he disappeared. So when Clary created an immortality rune two years after Alec disappeared, Jace, Izzy, and Clary drew it on themselves and didn't tell the Clave.

--70 years after Alec's disappearance --

"Really Magnus? Of all the colors you could have made my hair you had to make it blue?" Jace laughed shaking his head at his long time friend. "Well it's only fitting seeing as it's the same color as that shirt of mine you made fun of last week." Magnus grinned. Just as Jace was about to respond Isabelle called for him and Clary to get their gear on. "Jace! Clary! The Clave has a mission for us. You both know they only call for us if it's an emergency so let's go!" Izzy called. "Think you can change my hair back for the mission?" Jace grinned. Magnus rolled his eyes and changed Jace's hair back to the original blond. "Duty calls." Jace saluted and walked out with Izzy and Clary behind him. "So where are we off to?" Jace asked. Izzy sighed before speaking "We are to head to the New York Institute to speak to Inquisitor Gabriel about the mission." Jace and Clary both stiffened. They hadn't been to the New York Institute since they drew the immortality runes on themselves. It had taken a lot of time and persuasion for the Clave to back off about the immortality the three possessed before they mutually agreed that the rune was too dangerous for anyone else to posses or for it to be included with other runes. They also agreed that Jace, Izzy, and Clary only be called in on extreme emergencies. Usually they met in Idris for their missions so being called to the Institute was unusual to say the least. As they entered the Institute all three of them stiffened and made their way to the Inquisitor's office. They approached the Inquisitor and he spoke. "Jonathan, Isabelle, and Clarissa I presume? Lovely to finally meet you all. I am Inquisitor Gabriel. Please sit." The three sat across from him before Clary spoke "You have a mission for us, sir?" Inquisitor Gabriel nodded and handed them each a file. "This is what or who much of the Clave refers to as 'Archer'. He has killed at least 30 shadowhunters, 25 vampires, 78 seelies, and 14 werewolves in the past 5 or so decades. He's a master archer, hence the name, but is also an expert in guns and hand to hand combat." Gabriel crossed his arms. Jace looked through the thin file with blurry pictures, information on him, and a list of known victims. Jace looked up and gave Gabriel a look. "Why are you just now bringing this to us if he has been a threat for half a century?" Gabriel sighed "We weren't sure he was real. He seems more like a ghost story than anything. But he recently attacked the council so now we have more information on him and know he is indeed real." Isabelle sat up at this "The council? Are they okay? Any casualties? What new information?" Gabriel looked at her "There were 4 casualties. We were able to get most of the Council out before he got to them. As for the new information, he has black hair, is about 6'3", and has a metal arm. We were unable to determine if he is a shadowhunter, vampire, werewolf, or seelie. Our best bet is that he is a warlock seeing as how he has been around for over 50 years, hasn't killed any warlocks, and got through the wards without being detected. We want him alive to interrogate." Jace nods and closes the file. "We're on it." The three get up and hurry out of the Institute and back to Magnus's.

They walk through the door and go to their usual set up in Magnus's living room. "Well, well, well look who's back!" Magnus smiled, walking out of the kitchen. "What is it this time? Rouge vampire nest? Wolves turning mundanes?" Magnus's smile dropped slightly as he registered the tense shadowhunters. "What happened?" Jace handed him the file "The Clave is having us hunt a ghost story that happened to be true." He sighs and sits on the couch. Magnus looks though the files and scrunches up hid eyebrows. "They think this person is a warlock?" Clary nods and sits next to Jace "It makes sense. He hasn't killed any warlocks, he got through the wards without being detected, and has been around for at least half a century." Magnus nods and looks at the blurry pictures before stiffening. "Look at his metal arm in this picture. What does that look like near his shoulder?" Isabelle squints before stiffening. "A circle rune. Only it's not a rune. It's just painted on. So that means whoever this is, is either working for the Circle or being controlled by the Circle?" Magnus nods "It would seem so."

--Later--

Izzy storms into the room with her weapons ready. "We gotta go." Jace, Clary, and Magnus all stand up and follow Izzy. Jace looks at her concerned "Iz what's going on?" She turns and looks at him "The Institute is under attack. We have to go. Now." Magnus quickly opens a portal to the Institute and the four step through only to see dozens of dead shadowhunters and what looks to be the man from the blurry photos attacking shadowhunters and trying to make his way to the Inquisitors office. Jace looks at Izzy and Clary and nods. They had gone over what to do if they ran into him. Izzy and Clary get into position and Jace gets the mans attention. "Hey! Metal man! Over here!" Jace calls. The man turns to face Jace. He was wearing protective covering over his eyes and a mask on the lower part of his face. Jace feels a light tug at his parabatai rune. One he hasn't felt in 70 years. He doesn't process it though because the man is coming towards him with a dagger in hand. Jace takes a breath and engages. He punches only for the man to duck. He kicks only for the man to dodge. It's as if he knows all his fight patterns. When he finally does hit the man, causing him to stumble and his protective goggles to fall off, he signals for Clary and Izzy. Clary uses a sunlight rune to temporarily blind him while Izzy uses her whip to bind his hands. When Izzy goes to use her whip to bind him though he grabs it, pulls her forward, and punches her. Which effectively knocks her out. Jace, stunned for a moment, engages again with Clary engaging as well. Clary comes up behind the man, only for him to swing around and kick her in the head, knocking her out as well, and going for Jace next. Magnus steps through a portal, he had been getting the shadowhunters left to a safe house of his in Brooklyn, and looks at the sight before him. He summons his magic and throws a ball of it at the man, knocking him to the ground and the mask off his face, the man looks up and both Magnus and Jace freeze. "Alexander?" Magnus says in disbelief. "Who the hell is Alexander?" Alec says and goes to throw a knife at Magnus before Izzy, who had just woken up, knocks him out and Magnus binds him with magic. Magnus portals the five of them to his loft and putting Alec, or what used to be Alec, in a containment cell in the corner of his living room. Magnus sits down on his couch and looks up at Izzy, Clary, and Jace who are all in some degree of shock. "What the hell happened to him?"

--To Be Continued?--

(If you want this continued let me know that's all for now though :p)

#malec #shadowhunters #magnus bane #alec lightwood #shadowhunters season 2 #shadowhunters season 2b #jace wayland #shadowhunters 2x19 #Captain America: Winter Soldier #isabelle lightwood #clary fray #valentine morgenstern #jonathan morgenstern #Archer

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tj-van-heerden · 7 years

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Trials, testing, persecution, in the New Testament

Matt 4:1 [WEB] Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

Matt 4:4 But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’ ” Matt 4:7 7 Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’ ” Matt 4:10 Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

Matt 5:10-12 10 Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. 11 “Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 12 Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Matt 5:44 But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

Matt 10:16-22 16 “Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. 17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you. 18 Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations. 19 But when they deliver you up, don’t be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say. 20 For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you. 21 “Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death. 22 You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

Matt 10:28 Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna [or, Hell].

Matt 13:21 yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

Matt 16:24-27 24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it. 26 For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life? 27 For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

Matt 24:9-13 9 Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake. 10 Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another. 11 Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray. 12 Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But he who endures to the end will be saved.

Matt 24:21 for then there will be great suffering [or, oppression], such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.

Matt 24:29-31 29 But immediately after the suffering [or, oppression] of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken; 30 and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. 31 He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

Matt 26:41 Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Mark 1:13 He was there in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals; and the angels were serving him.

Mark 4:17 They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

Mark 10:29-30 29 Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News, 30 but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life. 31 But many who are first will be last; and the last first.”

Mark 13:9-13 9 But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them. 10 The Good News must first be preached to all the nations. 11 When they lead you away and deliver you up, don’t be anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit. 12 “Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death. 13 You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

Mark 13:19 For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.

Mark 13:24-27 24 But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, 25 the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken. 26 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. 27 Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the sky.

Mark 14:38 Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Luke 4:1-2 1 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness 2 for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.

Luke 4:4 Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’ ” Luke 4:8 Jesus answered him, “Get behind me Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ” Luke 4:12 Jesus answering, said to him, “It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ ”

Luke 6:22-23 22 Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake. 23 Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

Luke 6:27... “But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you...

Luke 8:13 Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

Luke 11:4 Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’ ”

Luke 12:4-5 4 “I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. 5 But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna [or, Hell]. Yes, I tell you, fear him.

Luke 21:12-19 12 But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake. 13 It will turn out as a testimony for you. 14 Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer, 15 for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict. 16 You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death. 17 You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake. 18 And not a hair of your head will perish. 19 “By your endurance you will win your lives.

Luke 22:40 When he was at the place, he said to them, “Pray that you don’t enter into temptation.”

Luke 22:46 and said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

John 10:10 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

John 12:25 He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

John 15:18-20 18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

John 16:2-3 They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God. 3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

John 16:33 I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

John 17:14 I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Acts 7:59-60 59 They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!” 60 He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.

Acts 8:1-2 1 Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles. 2 Devout men buried Stephen and lamented greatly over him.

Acts 11:19 They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only.

Acts 13:50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.

Acts 20:19 serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

Rom 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Rom 12:14 Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.

Rom 16:18 For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

1Cor 4:12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

1Cor 6:9-10 9 Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

1Cor 7:5 Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

1Cor 10:13 No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

2Cor 11:3 3 But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

2Cor 12:10 Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

Gal 6:1 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Eph 5:1-6 1 Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. 2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance. 3 But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints; 4 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks. 5 Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

1Thess 3:5 For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

2Thess 1:4 so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

2Tim 3:10-13 10 But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness, 11 persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all. 12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. 13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Heb 2:18 For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

Heb 3:8 don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

Heb 4:15 For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

Heb 10:23-33 23 let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful. 24 Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, 25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. 26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries. 28 A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses. 29 How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me;” says the Lord, “I will repay.” Again, “The Lord will judge his people.” 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. 32 But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings; 33 partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.

Heb 11:35-38 35 Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. 36 Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment. 37 They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated— 38 of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.

Jas 1:2-4 2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4 Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Jas 1:12 Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

1Pet 1:6-7 6 Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials, 7 that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

1Pet 4:12-13 12 Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you. 13 But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

2Pet 2:9 the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

1John 3:13 Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

Rev 1:9 I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Rev 2:9-11 9 “I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. 10 Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life. 11 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death.

Rev 2:13 “I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

Rev 3:10 Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

Rev 6:9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.

Rev 6:11 A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.

Rev 12:9 The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Rev 12:11 They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

Rev 12:17 The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.

Rev 13:10 If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

Rev 19:20 The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

Rev 20:2-3 2 He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years, 3 and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.

Rev 20:4-6 4 I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5 The rest of the dead didn’t live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.

Rev 20:10 The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Rev 12:11 I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.

Rev 21:8 But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers [includes users of potions and drugs], idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

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