Bible Verses About Persecution

And I, brethren, if uncircumcision I yet preach, why yet am I persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away;

as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised--only that for the cross of the Christ they may not be persecuted,

according to zeal persecuting the assembly! according to righteousness that is in law becoming blameless!

who did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and did persecute us, and God they are not pleasing, and to all men are contrary,

since it is a righteous thing with God to give back to those troubling you--trouble,

and that we may be delivered from the unreasonable and evil men, for the faith is not of all;

who before was speaking evil, and persecuting, and insulting, but I found kindness, because, being ignorant, I did it in unbelief,

the persecutions, the afflictions, that befell me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of all the Lord did deliver me,

and all also who will to live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted,

partly both with reproaches and tribulations being made spectacles, and partly having become partners of those so living,

for also with my bonds ye sympathised, and the robbery of your goods with joy ye did receive, knowing that ye have in yourselves a better substance in the heavens, and an enduring one.

Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward,

and others of mockings and scourgings did receive trial, and yet of bonds and imprisonment;

looking to the author and perfecter of faith--Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him--did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls--being faint.

Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin,

but, according as ye have fellowship with the sufferings of the Christ, rejoice ye, that also in the revelation of his glory ye may rejoice--exulting;

and if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; and let him glorify God in this respect;

so that also those suffering according to the will of god, as to a stedfast Creator, let them commit their own souls in good doing.

and those dwelling upon the land shall rejoice over them, and shall make merry, and gifts they shall send to one another, because these--the two prophets--did torment those dwelling upon the land.'