Bible Verses About Persecution

Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name’s sake.

Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.

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

So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:

Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.

Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:

But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.

But the Lord is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.

And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:

And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.

For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

But and if ye suffer for righteousness’ sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;

But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.

And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.

Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.

For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.

But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.

And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.

And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

And the Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.

But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.

Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

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