6 Bible Verses about Prayer During Persecution

So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer to God was made by the church for him.

So they stoned Stephen while he prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." Then he knelt down and cried aloud, "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge."

So, after he had thought things over, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John, surnamed Mark, where a large number of people were assembled, praying.

The crowd, too, rose up together against them, and the praetors, after having them stripped, and after ordering them to be flogged, had many lashes inflicted upon them, and put them in prison, with a charge to the jailer to keep them safe. On receiving so strict an order he cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.read more.
But at midnight, while Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,

"But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you.

Rejoice in hope; be patient under affliction; continue stedfast in prayer.