- #Mt7:6 Give not to dogs what is holy, and cast not your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet and turn to attack you.
- To those who claim to prophesy in my name, (#Mt7:23 ), I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye who work iniquity.
- To a disciple who wishes to bury his father before joining His discipleship, Jesus says, Follow me; and let the dead bury the dead (#Mt8:22).
- #Mt10:34,35 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
- #Lk 15:26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
- In #Rev2, Jesus warns against those churches that do not repent: #Rev2:16 Repent, or else I will come unto thee quickly and fight with the sword of my mouth. #Rev2:23 And I will kill her children with death.
- To the angel of the church of Laodicea, Jesus says (#Rev3:15,16) I know thy works, that thou art neither cold not hot. I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.