35 Bible Verses about Persecution, Forms Of

At this the High Priest was roused to action, and he and all his supporters (who formed the party of the Sadducees), moved by jealousy, Arrested the Apostles, and had them placed in custody.

For he knew that it was out of jealousy that they had given Jesus up to him.

But the sight of the crowds of people filled the minds of the Jews with jealousy, and they kept contradicting Paul's statements in violent language.

For, where envy and rivalry exist, there you will also find disorder and all kinds of base actions.

The Chief Priest and the Teachers of the Law were looking for an opportunity of destroying Jesus, for they were afraid of the people.

When King Herod heard of this, he was much troubled, and so, too, was all Jerusalem.

Just about that time a great disturbance arose about the Cause. A silversmith named Demetrius, who made silver models of the shrine of Artemis, and so gave a great deal of work to the artisans, Got these men together, as well as the workmen engaged in similar occupations, and said: "Men, you know that our prosperity depends upon this work,read more.
And you see and hear that not only at Ephesus, but in almost the whole of Roman Asia, this Paul has convinced and won over great numbers of people, by his assertion that those Gods which are made by hands are not Gods at all. So that not only is this business of ours likely to fall into discredit, but there is the further danger that the Temple of the great Goddess Artemis will be thought nothing of, and that she herself will be deprived of her splendor--though all Roman Asia and the whole world worship her."

We must not be like Cain, who belonged to the Evil One and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? It was because his life was bad while his brother's was good.

The world cannot hate you, but it does hate me, because I testify that its ways are evil.

Blessed are you when people taunt you, and persecute you, and say everything evil about you--untruly, and on my account.

And there were many whispers about him among the people, some saying 'He is a good man;' others: 'No! he is leading the people astray.'

Then they induced some men to assert that they had heard Stephen saying blasphemous things against Moses, and against God;

Now they have heard it said about you, that you teach all Jews in foreign countries to forsake Moses, for you tell them not to circumcise their children or even to observe Jewish customs.

We have found this man a public pest; he is one who stirs up disputes among the Jews all the world over, and is a ringleader of the Nazarene heretics.

His parents spoke in this way because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that, if any one should acknowledge Jesus as the Christ, he should be expelled from their synagogues.

But, to prevent this thing from spreading further among the people, let us warn them not to speak in this Name any more to any one whatever."

We meet slander with gentle appeals. We have been treated as the scum of the earth, the vilest of the vile, to this very hour.

Therefore let us go out to him 'outside the camp,' bearing the same reproaches as he;

I know your persecution and your poverty--yet you are rich! I know, too, the slander that come from those who declare that they are Jews, though they are not, but are a Congregation of Satan.

And you will be hated by every one on account of my Name. Yet the man that endures to the end shall be saved.

We know that God spoke to Moses; but, as for this man, we do not know where he comes from."

Yet for all this, even among the leading men there were many who came to believe in Jesus; but, on account of the Pharisees, they did not acknowledge it, for fear that they should be expelled from their Synagogues;

They will expel you from their Synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will think that he is making an offering to God.

Who is there to separate us from the love of the Christ? Will trouble, or difficulty, or persecution, or hunger, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword?

Be on your guard against your fellow men, for they will betray you to courts of law, and scourge you in their Synagogues;

See to yourselves! They will betray you to courts of law; and you will be taken to Synagogues and beaten; and you will be brought up before governors and kings for my sake, that you may bear witness before them.

"In truth I tell you," he continued, "when you were young, you used to put on your own girdle, and walk wherever you wished; but, when you have grown old, you will have to stretch out your hands, while some one else puts on your girdle, and takes you where you do not wish." Jesus said this to show the death by which Peter was to honor God, and then he added: "Follow me."

The Council followed his advice, and, calling the Apostles in, had them flogged, and then, after cautioning them not to speak in the Name of Jesus, set them free.

But Paul's answer to them was: "They have flogged us in public without trial, though we are Roman citizens, and they have put us in prison, and now they are for sending us out secretly! No, indeed! Let them come and take us out themselves."

Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. I have spent a whole day and night in the deep.

For the future let no one trouble me; for I bear the marks of Jesus branded on my body.

Others had to face taunts and blows, and even chains and imprisonment. They were stoned to death, they were tortured, they were swan asunder, they were put to the sword; they wandered about clothed in the skins of sheep or goats, destitute, persecuted, ill-used-- men of whom the world was not worthy--roaming in lonely places, and on the mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground.read more.
Yet, though they all won renown by their faith, they did not obtain the final fulfillment of God's promise;

though I once used to blaspheme, and to persecute, and to insult. Yet mercy was shown me, because I acted in ignorance, while still an unbeliever;

It was at that time that King Herod began to ill-treat some of the members of the Church.

All that they had heard was--'The man who once persecuted us is now telling the Good News of the very Faith of which he once made havoc.'