Persecution

Of Jesus

• Genesis 3:15

  And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

• Psalms 2:1–5

  Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. …

• Psalms 22:1

  To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

• Psalms 22:2

  O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

• Psalms 22:6–8

  But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

• Psalms 22:11–21

  Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help. Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. …

• Psalms 69:1–21

  To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. …

• Psalms 109:25

  I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

• Isaiah 49:7

  Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.

• Isaiah 50:6

  I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

• Isaiah 52:14

  As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:

• Isaiah 53:2–5

  For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. …

• Isaiah 53:7–10

  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. …

• Micah 5:1

  Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

• Matthew 2:13

  And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.

• Matthew 11:19

  The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

• Matthew 12:14

  Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.

• Matthew 12:24

  But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.

• Matthew 16:1

  The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.

• Matthew 20:22

  But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.

• Matthew 22:15

  Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.

• Matthew 26:3

  Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

• Matthew 26:4

  And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.

• Matthew 26:14–16

  Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.

• Matthew 26:59

  Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;

• Matthew 26:67

  Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,

• Matthew 27:25–30

  Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children. Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. …

• Matthew 27:39–44

  And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross. Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said, …

• Mark 3:6

  And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

• Mark 3:21

  And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.

• Mark 3:22

  And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils.

• Mark 11:18

  And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.

• Mark 12:13

  And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.

• Mark 14:1

  After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.

• Mark 14:48

  And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me?

• Mark 14:65

  And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands.

• Mark 15:14

  Then Pilate said unto them, Why, what evil hath he done? And they cried out the more exceedingly, Crucify him.

• Mark 15:34

  And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

• Mark 16:17

  And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;

• Luke 4:28

  And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,

• Luke 4:29

  And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.

• Luke 6:11

  And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.

• Luke 7:34

  The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!

• Luke 11:15

  But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils.

• Luke 11:53

  And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:

• Luke 11:54

  Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

• Luke 12:50

  But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!

• Luke 13:31

  The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee.

• Luke 19:14

  But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.

• Luke 19:47

  And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,

• Luke 20:20

  And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.

• Luke 22:2–5

  And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people. Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve. And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them. …

• Luke 22:52

  Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?

• Luke 22:53

  When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.

• Luke 22:63–65

  And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him. And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee? And many other things blasphemously spake they against him.

• Luke 23:11

  And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.

• Luke 23:23

  And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.

• John 5:16

  And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.

• John 7:1

  After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.

• John 7:7

  The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

• John 7:19

  Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?

• John 7:20

  The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?

• John 7:30

  Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

• John 7:32

  The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.

• John 8:37

  I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.

• John 8:40

  But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.

• John 8:48

  Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?

• John 8:52

  Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.

• John 8:59

  Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

• John 10:20

  And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?

• John 10:31

  Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.

• John 10:39

  Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,

• John 11:57

  Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.

• John 14:30

  Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.

• John 15:18

  If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

• John 15:20

  Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

• John 15:21

  But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.

• John 15:24

  If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

• John 15:25

  But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

• John 18:22

  And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so?

• John 18:23

  Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me?

• John 18:29

  Pilate then went out unto them, and said, What accusation bring ye against this man?

• John 18:30

  They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee.

• John 19:6

  When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.

• John 19:15

  But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Cæsar.

• Acts 2:23

  Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

• Acts 3:13–15

  The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.

• Acts 4:27

  For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,

• Acts 7:52

  Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

• Acts 13:27–29

  For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him. And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain. And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.

• Hebrews 12:2

  Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

• Hebrews 12:3

  For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

• 1 Peter 4:1

  Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

Of the righteous

• Genesis 49:23

  The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:

• Job 1:9

  Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?

• Job 2:4

  And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

• Job 2:5

  But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

• Job 12:4

  I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

• Job 12:5

  He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

• Psalms 11:2

  For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

• Psalms 37:32

  The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

• Psalms 38:20

  They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.

• Psalms 42:3

  My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

• Psalms 42:10

  As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?

• Psalms 44:15–18

  My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger. All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. …

• Psalms 44:22

  Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

• Psalms 56:5

  Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

• Psalms 69:10

  When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

• Psalms 69:12

  They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

• Psalms 74:7

  They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

• Psalms 74:8

  They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

• Psalms 94:5

  They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.

• Psalms 119:51

  The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.

• Psalms 119:61

  The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.

• Psalms 119:69

  The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

• Psalms 119:78

  Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

• Psalms 119:85–87

  The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law. All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me. They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.

• Psalms 119:95

  The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.

• Psalms 119:110

  The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.

• Psalms 119:157

  Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.

• Psalms 119:161

  SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.

• Proverbs 29:10

  The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.

• Proverbs 29:27

  An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.

• Isaiah 26:20

  Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

• Isaiah 29:20

  For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:

• Isaiah 29:21

  That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

• Isaiah 51:12

  I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;

• Isaiah 51:13

  And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

• Isaiah 59:15

  Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

• Jeremiah 2:30

  In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

• Jeremiah 11:19

  But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

• Jeremiah 15:10

  Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

• Jeremiah 18:18

  Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

• Jeremiah 20:7

  O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.

• Jeremiah 20:8

  For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.

• Jeremiah 26:11–14

  Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die; for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears. Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard. Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you. …

• Jeremiah 50:7

  All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

• Amos 5:10

  They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

• Habakkuk 1:13

  Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

• Matthew 5:10–12

  Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

• Matthew 5:44

  But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

• Matthew 10:16–18

  Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues; And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.

• Matthew 10:21–23

  And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved. But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.

• Matthew 10:28

  And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

• Matthew 20:22

  But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.

• Matthew 20:23

  And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.

• Matthew 23:34

  Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:

• Matthew 23:35

  That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

• Matthew 24:8–10

  All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

• Mark 9:42

  And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.

• Mark 13:9

  But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.

• Mark 13:11–13

  But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost. Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

• Luke 6:22

  Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

• Luke 6:23

  Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

• Luke 6:26

  Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

• Luke 17:33

  Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

• Luke 21:12–19

  But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake. And it shall turn to you for a testimony. Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer: …

• John 12:42

  Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue:

• John 15:18

  If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

• John 15:19

  If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

• John 16:1

  These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.

• John 16:2

  They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

• John 17:14

  I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

• Acts 4:16–20

  Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it. But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name. And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. …

• Acts 5:29

  Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

• Acts 5:40–42

  And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.

• Acts 7:52

  Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

• Acts 8:4

  Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word.

• Acts 28:22

  But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.

• Romans 8:17

  And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

• Romans 8:35–37

  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

• 1 Corinthians 4:9–13

  For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men. We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised. Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace; …

• 1 Corinthians 13:3

  And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

• 2 Corinthians 4:8–12

  We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. …

• 2 Corinthians 6:4

  But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

• 2 Corinthians 6:5

  In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;

• 2 Corinthians 6:8–10

  By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true; As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

• 2 Corinthians 11:23–27

  Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; …

• 2 Corinthians 12:10

  Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

• Galatians 4:29

  But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

• Galatians 6:12

  As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

• Galatians 6:17

  From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.

• Philippians 1:12–14

  But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel; So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places; And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

• Philippians 1:28

  And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.

• Philippians 1:29

  For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

• Colossians 1:24

  Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:

• 1 Thessalonians 1:6

  And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:

• 1 Thessalonians 2:2

  But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.

• 1 Thessalonians 2:14

  For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judæa are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:

• 1 Thessalonians 2:15

  Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

• 2 Thessalonians 1:4

  So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:

• 2 Timothy 1:8

  Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;

• 2 Timothy 1:12

  For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

• 2 Timothy 2:9–12

  Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound. Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: …

• 2 Timothy 3:2

  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

• 2 Timothy 3:3

  Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

• 2 Timothy 3:12

  Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

• 2 Timothy 4:16

  At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.

• 2 Timothy 4:17

  Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

• Hebrews 10:32–34

  But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used. For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.

• Hebrews 11:25–27

  Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

• Hebrews 11:33–38

  Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: …

• Hebrews 12:3

  For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

• Hebrews 12:4

  Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

• Hebrews 13:13

  Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

• James 2:6

  But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

• James 5:6

  Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

• James 5:10

  Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

• 1 Peter 3:14

  But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;

• 1 Peter 3:16

  Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

1 Peter 3:17, 1 Peter 4:3, 1 Peter 4:4, 1 Peter 4:12–14, 1 Peter 4:16, 1 Peter 4:19, 1 John 3:1, 1 John 3:13, Revelation 2:3, Revelation 2:10, Revelation 2:13, Revelation 6:9–11, Revelation 7:13–17, Revelation 12:11, Revelation 17:6, Revelation 20:4

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