Matthew 22:6
While the rest, seizing his servants, ill-treated them and killed them.
Matthew 5:10-12
Blessed are those who have been persecuted in the cause of righteousness, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Matthew 10:12-18
As you enter the house, greet it.
Matthew 10:22-25
And you will be hated by every one on account of my Name. Yet the man that endures to the end shall be saved.
Matthew 21:35-39
But the tenants seized his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.
Matthew 23:34-37
That is why I send you Prophets, wise men, and Teachers of the Law, some of whom you will crucify and kill, and some of whom you will scourge in your Synagogues, and persecute from town to town;
John 15:19-20
If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world--that is why the world hates you.
John 16:2-3
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.
Acts 4:1-3
While Peter and John were still speaking to the people, the Chief Priest, with the Officer in charge at the Temple and the Sadducees, came up to them,
Acts 5:40-41
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.
Acts 7:51-57
O! stubborn race, heathen in heart and ears, you are for ever resisting the Holy Spirit; your ancestors did it, and you are doing it still.
Acts 8:1
Saul approved of his being put to death. On that very day a great persecution broke out against the Church which was in Jerusalem; and its members, with the exception of the Apostles, were all scattered over the districts of Judea and Samaria.
1 Thessalonians 2:14-15
For you, Brothers, began to follow the example of the Churches of God in Judea which are in union with Jesus Christ; you, in your turn, suffering at the hands of your fellow-citizens, in the same way as those Churches did at the hands of the Jews--