Jeremiah 5:5
I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God. But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.

Luke 19:14
But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, 'We do not want this man to rule over us.'

1 Peter 2:7, 8
To you who believe, then, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, "The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone, " . . .