35 Bible Verses about Persecution, Forms Of

Then the high priest rose up, and all that were with him, (being of the sect of the sadducees,) and were filled with rage: and laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the public prison.

Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ? for he knew that out of envy they had delivered Him up.

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, opposing and reviling him.

for where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

And the chief priests and scribes were consulting how they might put Him to death; for they were afraid of the people.

And when Herod the king heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him:

Now there happened at that time no small disturbance about the way which he taught. For one Demetrius, a silver-smith, who made silver models of Diana's temple, brought no small gain to the artificers: whom he got together, and with them the workmen they employed about such things, and said, My friends, ye know that by this employment we get our wealth.read more.
And ye see and hear, that not only at Ephesus, but in almost all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and perverted many people, saying, that they are no gods which are made by hands. So that we are not only in danger of this, that the business we follow will come to nothing; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana will be despised; and her magnificence destroyed, whom all Asia and the whole world worshippeth.

and why did he slay him? because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

but me it hates, because I bear my testimony concerning it, that it's deeds are evil.

Blessed are ye when men shall revile and persecute you, and utter all manner of reproach against you falsly, for my sake:

And there was much murmuring among the people concerning Him: for some said, He is a good man; others said, No: He deceiveth the people.

Then they suborned men to say, we heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God.

And they have heard of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews, who are among the Gentiles, to forsake the law of Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children, nor to walk after our customs.

For having found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ring-leader of the sect of the Nazarenes,

These things said his parents, because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed, that if any one confessed Him to be Christ, he should be turned out of the synagogue.

But that it may spread no farther among the people, let us severely charge them to speak no more to any man in this name.

We are made as the filth of the world, and the refuse of all things to this day.

Let us then go out unto Him without the camp, bearing his reproach: for we have here no continuing city,

I know thy works and affliction and poverty (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of those that say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

and ye shall be hated by all men for professing my name; but he that perseveres to the end shall certainly be saved.

but as for this man, we know not whence He is.

There were however many of the chief rulers that believed on Him; but because of the pharisees they did not confess it, lest they should be excommunicated.

for they will excommunicate you: yea, the time is coming, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he offers an acceptable service to God.

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

Beware of evil men; for they will deliver you up to their councils, and will scourge you in their synagogues.

But look to yourselves; for they will deliver you up to councils, and synagogues: and ye shall be scourged, and set before governors and kings on my account, for a testimony against them.

Verily, verily I say unto thee, When thou wast younger, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst about where thou wouldest: but when thou art old, thou shalt stretch out thine hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee where thou wouldest not. This He said, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when He had said this, He saith unto him, Follow me.

So they took his advice, and having called for the apostles and scourged them, they charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

But Paul said unto them, They have publicly beaten us, uncondemned, and Romans, and cast us into prison, and do they now turn us out privately? No verily, let them come themselves and fetch us out.

Thrice I have been beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I have been shipwrecked, and was a night and a day on the deep:

For the future, let no one give me uneasiness: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.

And others had the trial of mockings and scourgings, and of bonds too and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain by the sword: they went about in sheep-skins, and goat-skins, being destitute, afflicted, distressed, (of whom the world was not worthy) wandering in deserts, and mountains, and dens, and caves of the earth.read more.
And these all, though they obtained an honorable testimony by faith, yet received not the promise;

who before was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and an oppressor. But I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief: and the grace of our Lord superabounded,

About that time Herod the king exerted his power to distress some of the church.

But only they had heard that he who persecuted us before, now preacheth the faith which he formerly would have destroyed.