6 Bible Verses about Persecution, Origin

and these things they will do because they have not known the Father nor me.

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

but has no root in himself, but is for a time only; and when tribulation or persecution happens on account of the word, he is immediately offended.

The wicked, in his pride, doth hotly pursue the afflicted. They shall be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

But the Jews excited the women of the upper classes who were worshippers, and the first people of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their coasts.

I indeed myself thought that I ought to do much against the name of Jesus the Nazaraean. Which also I did in Jerusalem, and myself shut up in prisons many of the saints, having received the authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death I gave my vote. And often punishing them in all the synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme. And, being exceedingly furious against them, I persecuted them even to cities out of our own land.