Bible Verses About Persecution

for of a truth in this city against thy holy Servant Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, were gathered together,

and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in public ward.

Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them that showed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers;

And Saul was consenting unto his death. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church which was in Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judæa and Samaria, except the apostles.

and he fell upon the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest:

Now about that time Herod the king put forth his hands to afflict certain of the church.

For they that dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

And though they found no cause of death in him, yet asked they of Pilate that he should be slain.

And when they had fulfilled all things that were written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.

But the Jews urged on the devout women of honorable estate, and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their borders.

And when there was made an onset both of the Gentiles and of the Jews with their rulers, to treat them shamefully and to stone them,

And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:

and I persecuted this Way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

I verily thought with myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

And this I also did in Jerusalem: and I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

And punishing them oftentimes in all the synagogues, I strove to make them blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto foreign cities.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Bless them that persecute you; bless, and curse not.

and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

If after the manner of men I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver: on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed;

But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted himthat was bornafter the Spirit, so also it is now.