Mark 13:9

Persecution Of Disciples Predicted

⁸ For nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines. These are but the beginning of birth pains. ⁹ "You must watch out for yourselves. You will be handed over to councils and beaten in the synagogues. You will stand before governors and kings because of me, as a witness to them. ¹⁰ First the gospel must be preached to all nations.

Be Careful

Be on Your Guard

Bear Witness

For My Name

For My Sake

Take Heed

Testimony to Them

On Account Of Me

Pay Attention

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Matthew 10:17-18

Beware of people, because they will hand you over to councils and flog you in their synagogues.

Mark 13:5

Jesus began to say to them, "Watch out that no one misleads you.

Matthew 23:34-37

"For this reason I am sending you prophets and wise men and experts in the law, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town,

Matthew 24:9-10

"Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name.

Mark 1:44

He told him, "See that you do not say anything to anyone, but go, show yourself to a priest, and bring the offering that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them."

Mark 6:11

If a place will not welcome you or listen to you, as you go out from there, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them."

Luke 9:5

Wherever they do not receive you, as you leave that town, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them."

Luke 21:16-18

You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will have some of you put to death.

John 15:20

Remember what I told you, 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too.

John 16:2

They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

Acts 4:1-21

While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the commander of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

Acts 5:17-40

Now the high priest rose up, and all those with him (that is, the religious party of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy.

Acts 6:11-15

Then they secretly instigated some men to say, "We have heard this man speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God."

Acts 7:54-3

When they heard these things, they became furious and ground their teeth at him.

Acts 9:1-2

Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats to murder the Lord's disciples, went to the high priest

Acts 9:13-14

But Ananias replied, "Lord, I have heard from many people about this man, how much harm he has done to your saints in Jerusalem,

Acts 9:16

For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name."

Acts 12:1-3

About that time King Herod laid hands on some from the church to harm them.

Acts 16:20-24

When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said, "These men are throwing our city into confusion. They are Jews

Acts 21:11

He came to us, took Paul's belt, tied his own hands and feet with it, and said, "The Holy Spirit says this: 'This is the way the Jews in Jerusalem will tie up the man whose belt this is, and will hand him over to the Gentiles.'"

Acts 21:31-40

While they were trying to kill him, a report was sent up to the commanding officer of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

Acts 22:19-20

I replied, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat those in the various synagogues who believed in you.

Acts 23:1-2

Paul looked directly at the council and said, "Brothers, I have lived my life with a clear conscience before God to this day."

Acts 24:1-9

After five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and an attorney named Tertullus, and they brought formal charges against Paul to the governor.

Acts 25:1-26

Now three days after Festus arrived in the province, he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

1 Corinthians 4:9-13

For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to die, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.

2 Corinthians 11:23-27

Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.

Philippians 1:29

For it has been granted to you not only to believe in Christ but also to suffer for him,

2 Thessalonians 1:5

This is evidence of God's righteous judgment, to make you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which in fact you are suffering.

Revelation 1:9

I, John, your brother and the one who shares with you in the persecution, kingdom, and endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony about Jesus.

Revelation 2:10

Do not be afraid of the things you are about to suffer. The devil is about to have some of you thrown into prison so you may be tested, and you will experience suffering for ten days. Remain faithful even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown that is life itself.

Revelation 2:13

I know where you live -- where Satan's throne is. Yet you continue to cling to my name and you have not denied your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was killed in your city where Satan lives.

Revelation 6:9-11

Now when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been violently killed because of the word of God and because of the testimony they had given.