they reported

Proverbs 28:4
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them.

John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.

John 15:19
If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.

1 John 4:5
They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world's perspective, and the world listens to them.

words.

Nehemiah 6:9, 13
For they were all trying to frighten us, saying, "Their hands will be weakened in the work, and it will never be finished." But now, my God, strengthen my hands. . . .

Isaiah 37:10-14
"Tell Hezekiah king of Judah, 'Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. . . .

Acts 4:18-21
Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. . . .