Matthew 24:9

Persecution Of Disciples Predicted

⁸ all which are but the beginning of sorrows. ⁹  Then shall they afflict you, and kill you; and ye shall be hated by all nations for my name: ¹⁰ and then will many take offense, and betray one another, and hate one another: and many false prophets will rise up and deceive many:

Called by My Name

For My Name

Hated by All

John 16:2

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

Matthew 23:34

For behold I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and some of them ye will kill and crucify, and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:

John 15:19-20

If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

Revelation 2:10

Fear none of the things which thou wilt suffer: behold the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall suffer affliction ten days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

Matthew 10:17-22

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

Matthew 22:6

and others seized his servants, and shamefully abused them, and slew them.

Mark 13:9-13

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.

Luke 11:49

And therefore the wisdom of God hath said, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute:

Luke 21:12

But before all these things they will lay hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues, and prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake:

Luke 21:16-17

But ye shall be betrayed even by parents, and brethren, and kindred and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death:

Acts 4:2-3

being vexed that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

Acts 5:40-41

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.

Acts 7:59

And they stoned Stephen calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

Acts 12:1-5

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

Acts 21:31-32

And as they were going to kill him, a report came to the tribune of the cohort, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar:

Acts 22:19-22

And I said, Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and scourged in the synagogues them that believed on Thee.

Acts 28:22

But we would willingly hear from thee what thou thinkest: for as to this sect, we know that it is every where spoken against.

1 Thessalonians 2:14-16

For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God, which are in Judea, in Christ Jesus, in that ye also have suffered the same things from your own countrymen, as they have from the Jews:

1 Peter 4:16

But if any suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God herein.

Revelation 2:13

I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and yet thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr; who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.

Revelation 6:9-11

And when He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those that had been slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they maintained.

Revelation 7:14

And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they who come out of great affliction, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.