35 Bible Verses about Persecution, Forms Of

And the chief priest arose, and all those with him, being the sect of the Sadducees, and were filled with wrath, and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in the public prison.

For he knew that they had delivered him up from envy.

And the Jews seeing the multitudes were filled with envy, and contradicted the things said by Paul, disputing and blaspheming.

For where envy and strife are, there are disorder and every evil work.

And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might destroy him, for they feared the people.

And Herod the king hearing this was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him;

And there was at that time no small tumult about the way [of the Lord]. For a certain Demetrius by name, a silversmith, who made silver temples of Diana, and afforded his artisans no small gain, assembling them together and laborers of like employments, said, Men, you know that our prosperity is derived from this employment,read more.
and you see and hear, that not only at Ephesus, but in almost all Asia, this Paul has led away a great multitude by persuasion, saying that things which are made by hands are not gods. And not only this work of ours is in danger of coming into contempt, but even the temple of the great goddess Diana of being set at nought, and her majesty also which all Asia and the world worships, of being destroyed.

not as Cain was of the evil one and killed his brother; and why did he kill him? because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

The world cannot hate you, but me it hates, because I testify of it that its works are evil.

Blessed are you when they shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say every evil against you, falsely, for my sake.

And there was much complaining concerning him among the multitude; some said, He is a good man; others said, No; but he deceives the people.

Then they bribed men who said, We heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.

and they have been informed of you, that you teach all the Jews among the gentiles to apostatize from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children, nor to walk according to the customs.

For finding this man a pestilence and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a chief of the sect of the Nazoraeans,

His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for already the Jews had agreed that if any one confessed him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue;

but that it spread no further among the people, let us threaten them severely, [and charge them] to speak no more to any man in this name.

being defamed we entreat; we are made like the offscouring of the world and the vilest of all things, even till now.

Let us therefore go out to him without the encampment, bearing his reproach;

I know your affliction and poverty, but you are rich, and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

and you shall be hated by all men for my sake. But he that endures to the end shall be saved.

We know that God spoke to Moses, but we know not whence this man is.

Nevertheless, many of the rulers believed on him, but on account of the Pharisees did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogues;

They shall put you out of the synagogues; but the hour is coming when every one that kills you will think he renders God a service.

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

But beware of men; for they will deliver you to Sanhedrims, and scourge you in their synagogues,

But take heed to yourselves; they shall deliver you up to Sanhedrims, and you shall be beaten in synagogues, and shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.

I tell you most truly, that when you were young you girded yourself and walked where you would; but when you become old, you shall stretch out your hands and another shall bind you and carry you where you would not; but he said this signifying by what death he should glorify God; and having said this, he said to him, Follow me.

And they were persuaded by him, and calling the apostles and scourging them, they charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and dismissed them.

But Paul said to him, They have beaten us publicly uncondemned, being Romans, and cast us into prison; and now do they privately cast us out? No, indeed: but let them come themselves and conduct us out.

thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice have I been shipwrecked, a night and a day have I spent in the deep;

Finally, let no man trouble me; for I bear in my body the marks of Jesus.

and others had trial of mockings and scourges, and besides of bonds and imprisonment; they were stoned, they were cut to pieces with saws, they were tried, they died with the death of the sword, they wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated, of whom the world was not worthy, wandering in deserts and mountains, and in caves and openings of the earth.read more.
And none of these who became martyrs through faith received the promise,

who formerly was a blasphemer and persecutor and an injurious man; but I obtained mercy because I did those things ignorantly in unbelief;

AND at that time Herod the king put forth his hands to injure some of the church.

only they heard that he who persecuted us formerly, now preached the faith which he formerly destroyed;