Bible Verses About Persecution

for gathered together of a truth against Thy holy child Jesus, whom Thou didst anoint, were both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and peoples of Israel,

and laid their hands upon the apostles, and did put them in a public prison;

which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become,

And Saul was assenting to his death, and there came in that day a great persecution upon the assembly in Jerusalem, all also were scattered abroad in the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles;

and having fallen upon the earth, he heard a voice saying to him, `Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute?'

And he said, `Who art thou, Lord?' and the Lord said, `I am Jesus whom thou dost persecute; hard for thee at the pricks to kick;'

And about that time, Herod the king put forth his hands, to do evil to certain of those of the assembly,

for those dwelling in Jerusalem, and their chiefs, this one not having known, also the voices of the prophets, which every sabbath are being read--having judged him --did fulfil,

and no cause of death having found, they did ask of Pilate that he should be slain,

and when they did complete all the things written about him, having taken him down from the tree, they laid him in a tomb;

And the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the first men of the city, and did raise persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and did put them out from their borders;

and when there was a purpose both of the nations and of the Jews with their rulers to use them despitefully, and to stone them,

many blows also having laid upon them, they cast them to prison, having given charge to the jailor to keep them safely,

`And this way I persecuted unto death, binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women,

`I, indeed, therefore, thought with myself, that against the name of Jesus of Nazareth it behoved me many things to do,

which also I did in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I in prison did shut up, from the chief priests having received the authority; they also being put to death, I gave my vote against them,

and in every synagogue, often punishing them, I was constraining them to speak evil, being also exceedingly mad against them, I was also persecuting them even unto strange cities.

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

Bless those persecuting you; bless, and curse not;

and labour, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;

if in this life we have hope in Christ only, of all men we are most to be pitied.

if after the manner of a man with wild beasts I fought in Ephesus, what the advantage to me if the dead do not rise? let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die!

who out of so great a death did deliver us, and doth deliver, in whom we have hoped that even yet He will deliver;

persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

but as then he who was born according to the flesh did persecute him according to the spirit, so also now;