Bible Verses About Persecution

“This has come true in this city, since Herod and Pontius Pilate, with Goyim and the peoples of Isra’el, all assembled against your holy servant Yeshua, whom you made Messiah,

They arrested the emissaries and put them in the public jail.

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who told in advance about the coming of the Tzaddik, and now you have become his betrayers and murderers! —

and Sha’ul gave his approval to his murder. Starting with that day, there arose intense persecution against the Messianic Community in Yerushalayim; all but the emissaries were scattered throughout the regions of Y’hudah and Shomron.

Falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Sha’ul! Sha’ul! Why do you keep persecuting me?”

“Sir, who are you?” he asked. “I am Yeshua, and you are persecuting me.

It was around this time that King Herod began arresting and persecuting certain members of the Messianic community;

For the people living in Yerushalayim and their leaders did not recognize who Yeshua was or understand the message of the Prophets read every Shabbat, so they fulfilled that message by condemning him.

They could not find any legitimate ground for a death sentence; nevertheless they asked Pilate to have him executed;

and when they had carried out all the things written about him, he was taken down from the stake and placed in a tomb.

But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the women ‘God-fearers’ of high social standing and the leading men of the city, and they organized persecution against Sha’ul and Bar-Nabba and expelled them from their district.

Eventually the unbelievers, both Jews and Gentiles, together with their leaders, made a move to mistreat the emissaries, even to stone them;

After giving them a severe beating, they threw them in prison, charging the jailer to guard them securely.

I persecuted to death the followers of this Way, arresting both men and women and throwing them in prison.

“I used to think it was my duty to do all I could to combat the name of Yeshua from Natzeret;

and in Yerushalayim I did so. After receiving authority from the head cohanim, I myself threw many of God’s people in prison; when they were put to death, I cast my vote against them.

Often I went from one synagogue to another, punishing them and trying to make them blaspheme; and in my wild fury against them, I even went so far as to persecute them in cities outside the country.

Who will separate us from the love of the Messiah? Trouble? Hardship? Persecution? Hunger? Poverty? Danger? War?

Bless those who persecute you — bless them, don’t curse them!

we exhaust ourselves working with our own hands for our living. When we are cursed, we keep on blessing; when we are persecuted, we go on putting up with it;

If it is only for this life that we have put our hope in the Messiah, we are more pitiable than anyone.

If my fighting with “wild beasts” in Ephesus was done merely on a human basis, what do I gain by it? If dead people are not raised, we might as well live by the saying, “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

He rescued us from such deadly peril, and he will rescue us again! The one in whom we have placed our hope will indeed continue to rescue us.

persecuted, yet not abandoned; knocked down, yet not destroyed.

But just as then the one born according to limited human capability persecuted the one born through the Spirit’s supernatural power, so it is now.