Persecution

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you. — read the full passage →

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. — read the full passage →

For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.

But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”

Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.

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

Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men. — read the full passage →

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had. — read the full passage →

But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair; — read the full passage →

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News, — read the full passage →

My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

I John, your brother and partner with you in oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you. — read the full passage →

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? — read the full passage →

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. — read the full passage →

Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten.

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? — read the full passage →

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. — read the full passage →

I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.

They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only.

We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair; — read the full passage →

What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it; — read the full passage →

But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News; — read the full passage →

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you. — read the full passage →

But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness, — read the full passage →

“These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble. — read the full passage →

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch, — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.

They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!” — read the full passage →

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

“By your endurance you will win your lives.

Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed? — read the full passage →

Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

“To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: “The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things: — read the full passage →

concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

When they lead you away and deliver you up, don’t be anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit. — read the full passage →

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake. — read the full passage →

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth. — read the full passage →

But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake. — read the full passage →

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. — read the full passage →

It will turn out as a testimony for you. — read the full passage →

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’

for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.

Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me. — read the full passage →

They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.