Matthew 24:9

Persecution Of Disciples Predicted

⁸ All these things are the beginning of birth pains. ⁹ "Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name. ¹⁰ Then many will be led into sin, and they will betray one another and hate one another.

Called by My Name

For My Name

Hated by All

John 16:2

They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

Matthew 23:34

"For this reason I am sending you prophets and wise men and experts in the law, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town,

John 15:19-20

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.

Revelation 2:10

Do not be afraid of the things you are about to suffer. The devil is about to have some of you thrown into prison so you may be tested, and you will experience suffering for ten days. Remain faithful even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown that is life itself.

Matthew 10:17-22

Beware of people, because they will hand you over to councils and flog you in their synagogues.

Matthew 22:6

The rest seized his slaves, insolently mistreated them, and killed them.

Mark 13:9-13

"You must watch out for yourselves. You will be handed over to councils and beaten in the synagogues. You will stand before governors and kings because of me, as a witness to them.

Luke 11:49

For this reason also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,'

Luke 21:12

But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you, handing you over to the synagogues and prisons. You will be brought before kings and governors because of my name.

Luke 21:16-17

You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will have some of you put to death.

Acts 4:2-3

angry because they were teaching the people and announcing in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.

Acts 5:40-41

and they summoned the apostles and had them beaten. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them.

Acts 7:59

They continued to stone Stephen while he prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"

Acts 12:1-5

About that time King Herod laid hands on some from the church to harm them.

Acts 21:31-32

While they were trying to kill him, a report was sent up to the commanding officer of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

Acts 22:19-22

I replied, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat those in the various synagogues who believed in you.

Acts 28:22

But we would like to hear from you what you think, for regarding this sect we know that people everywhere speak against it."

1 Thessalonians 2:14-16

For you became imitators, brothers and sisters, of God's churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you too suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they in fact did from the Jews,

1 Peter 4:16

But if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but glorify God that you bear such a name.

Revelation 2:13

I know where you live -- where Satan's throne is. Yet you continue to cling to my name and you have not denied your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was killed in your city where Satan lives.

Revelation 6:9-11

Now when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been violently killed because of the word of God and because of the testimony they had given.

Revelation 7:14

So I said to him, "My lord, you know the answer." Then he said to me, "These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb!