Matthew 5:10

The Beatitudes

⁹ Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. ¹⁰ Blessed are they which suffer persecution for righteousness sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ¹¹ Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall falsely say all manner of evil sayings against you 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 ye when men hate you, and thrust you out of their company, and rail on you, and abhor your name, as an evil thing, for the son of man's sake.

2 Timothy 2:12

If we be patient, we shall also reign with him; If we deny him, he also shall deny us;

Psalm 37:12

The ungodly layeth wait for the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

Matthew 10:23

When they persecute you in one city, fly into another: I tell you for a truth, ye shall not finish all the cities of Israel, till the son of man be come.

Matthew 25:34

Then shall the King say to them on his right hand, 'Come, ye blessed children of my father, inherit ye the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world.

Mark 10:30

which shall not receive a hundred fold now in this life, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers and children, and lands with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal life.

Luke 6:20

And he lifted up his eyes upon the disciples, and said, "Blessed be ye 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 into prison: and bring you before kings and rulers for my name's sake.

John 15:20

Remember the saying, that I said unto you, 'The servant is not greater than the Lord.' If they have persecuted me, so will they persecute you. If they have kept my saying, so will they keep yours.

Acts 5:40

And to him they agreed, and called the apostles, and beat them, and commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

Acts 8:1

Saul had pleasure in his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the congregation which was at Jerusalem, and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Jewry and Samaria, except the apostles.

Romans 8:35-39

Who shall separate us from the love of God? Shall tribulation? Or anguish? Or persecution, other hunger? Other nakedness? Other peril? Other sword?

1 Corinthians 4:9-13

Me thinketh that God hath set forth us, which are apostles, for the lowest of all: as it were, men appointed to death. For we are a gazingstock unto the world, and to the angels, and to men.

2 Corinthians 4:8-12

We are troubled on every side, yet are we not without shift. We are in poverty: but not utterly without somewhat.

2 Corinthians 4:17

For our exceeding tribulation, which is momentary and light, prepareth an exceeding and eternal weight of glory unto us,

Philippians 1:28

and in nothing fearing your adversaries: which is to them a token of perdition, and to you a sign of salvation, and that of God.

2 Thessalonians 1:4-7

so that we ourselves rejoice of you in the congregations of God, over your patience and faith in all your persecutions, and tribulations that ye suffer:

2 Timothy 3:11

persecutions, and afflictions which happened unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra: which persecutions I suffered patiently; And from them all the Lord delivered me.

James 1:2-5

My brethren, count it exceeding joy when ye fall into divers temptations,

James 1:12

Happy is the man that endureth in temptation, for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

1 Peter 3:13-14

Moreover, who is it that will harm you if ye follow that which is good?

1 Peter 4:12-16

Dearly beloved, be not troubled in this heat, which now is come among you to try you, as though some strange thing had happened unto you:

1 John 3:12

and not be as Cain, which was of the devil and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? For his own deeds were evil, and his brother's righteous.

Revelation 2:10

Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer. Behold, the devil shall cast of you into prison, to tempt you, and ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be faithful unto the death, and I will give thee a crown of life.