Bible Verses About Persecution: Lawful means may be used to escape

After their departure, behold, the Angel of the Lord appeareth to Ioseph in a dreame, saying, Arise, and take the babe and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be there til I bring thee word: for Herod will seeke the babe, to destroy him.

And when they persecute you in this citie, flee into another: for verely I say vnto you, yee shall not goe ouer all the cities of Israel, till the Sonne of man be come.

Then the Pharises went out, and consulted against him, howe they might destroy him.

But whe Iesus knew it, he departed thece, and great multitudes folowed him, and he healed the al,