Matthew 5:10

The Beatitudes

⁹ Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called sons of God. ¹⁰ Blessed are they that are persecuted on account of righteousness; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ¹¹ Blessed are you, when they shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say every evil thing against you, falsely, on my account.

Blessed are

Kingdom of Heaven

Matthew 5:3

Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Luke 6:22

Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and shall withdraw themselves from you, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, on account of the Son of man.

2 Timothy 2:12

if we are patient, we shall also reign with him; if we deny him, he will also deny us;

Matthew 10:23

But when they persecute you in this city, flee into another: for verily I say to you, You will not have made the circuit of the cities of Israel before the Son of man shall come.

Matthew 25:34

Then the King will say to those on his right hand: Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Mark 10:30

who shall not receive a hundred-fold, now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life.

Luke 6:20

And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: Blessed are you that are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

Luke 21:12

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

John 15:20

Remember the word which I spoke to you, The servant 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 yours also.

Acts 5:40

And they were persuaded by him; and when they had called the apostles in and scourged them, they commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

Acts 8:1

And at that time there was a great persecution against the church that was in Jerusalem; and they were all dispersed throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

Romans 8:35-39

Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? Shall affliction, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword?

1 Corinthians 4:9-13

For I think that God has appointed us the apostles, to the lowest place, as under sentence of death; for we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

2 Corinthians 4:8-12

We are pressed on all sides, yet not restrained; perplexed, but not in despair;

2 Corinthians 4:17

For our present light affliction works out for us an eternal fullness of glory, excelling all excellence, ls while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen: for the things seen are temporal; but the things not seen are eternal.

Philippians 1:28

and in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

2 Thessalonians 1:4-7

so that we ourselves glory in you, among the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure;

2 Timothy 3:11

my persecutions, my sufferings which came upon me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; you well know what persecutions I endured: and yet out of them all, the Lord delivered me.

James 1:2-5

My brethren, count it all joy, when you fall into manifold trials,

James 1:12

Blessed is the man that endures trial: for, being approved, he shall receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him.

1 Peter 3:13-14

And who is he that will harm you, if you be followers of that which is good?

1 Peter 4:12-16

Beloved, be not amazed at the fiery trial that has come on you to try you, as if some strange thing had happened to you.

1 John 3:12

Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one, and slew his brother: and for what reason did he slay him? because his own works were evil, and his brother s, righteous.

Revelation 2:10

Fear none of the things which you are about to suffer; behold, the devil will throw some of you into prison, that you may be tried: and you shall have affliction ten days. Be faithful till death, and I will give you the crown of life.