Matthew 5:10

The Beatitudes

⁹ Blessed are the peacemakers! For they shall be called the sons of God. ¹⁰ Blessed are they who have been persecuted for righteousness sake! For theirs is the kingdom of Heaven. ¹¹ Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for My sake.

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 when they shall cut you off, and when they shall reproach you and shall cast out your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man.

2 Timothy 2:12

If we suffer, we shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He also will deny us.

Psalm 37:12

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes on him with his teeth.

Matthew 10:23

But when they persecute you in this city, flee into another; for truly I say to you, In no way shall you have finished the cities of Israel until the Son of Man comes.

Matthew 25:34

Then the King shall say to those on His right hand, Come, blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Mark 10:30

but he shall receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands with persecutions, and in the world to come, eternal life.

Luke 6:20

And lifting up His eyes to His disciples, He said, Blessed are the poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

Luke 21:12

But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for My name's sake.

John 15:20

Remember the word that I said 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 saying, they will also keep yours.

Acts 5:40

And they obeyed him. And calling the apostles, beating them, they commanded not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

Acts 8:1

And Saul was consenting to his death. And in that day there was a great persecution on the church at Jerusalem, and all were scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

Romans 8:35-39

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

1 Corinthians 4:9-13

For I think that God has set forth us last, the apostles, as it were appointed to death; for we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.

2 Corinthians 4:8-12

in every way having been troubled, but not having been hemmed in; having been perplexed, but not utterly at a loss;

2 Corinthians 4:17

For the lightness of our present affliction works out for us a far more excellent eternal weight of glory,

Philippians 1:28

and terrified in nothing by your adversaries. For this is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.

2 Thessalonians 1:4-7

so much so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations which you endure.

2 Timothy 3:11

persecutions, afflictions, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra. What persecutions I endured! But the Lord delivered me out of all.

James 1:2-5

My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into different kinds of temptations,

James 1:12

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, because having been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

1 Peter 3:13-14

And who is the one who will harm you if you become imitators of the good?

1 Peter 4:12-16

Beloved, do not be astonished at the fiery trial which is to try you, as though a strange thing happened to you,

1 John 3:12

not as Cain who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. And for what did he kill him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's things were righteous.

Revelation 2:10

Do not at all fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the Devil will cast some of you into prison, so that you may be tried. And you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.