Matthew 5:10

The Beatitudes

⁹ Blessed are the peacemakers; for they will be called sons of God. ¹⁰ Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness sake; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ¹¹ Blessed are ye, when men revile you, and persecute you, and say every thing that is bad 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 ye when men hate you, and when they exclude you, and revile and cast out your name as evil, on account of the Son of man.

2 Timothy 2:12

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

Matthew 10:23

And when they persecute you in one city, flee to another. For truly do I say to you, Ye will not have gone over the cities of Israel till the Son of man hath come.

Matthew 25:34

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

Mark 10:30

who will not receive a hundredfold in the time that now is, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come everlasting life.

Luke 6:20

And raising his eyes toward his disciples, he said, Blessed are ye 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, and bringing you before kings and governors on account of my name.

John 15:20

Remember what I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my words, they will keep yours also.

Acts 5:40

And they were persuaded by him; and having called the apostles, they beat them, and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and released them.

Acts 8:1

And Saul was consenting to his death. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and all were scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.

Romans 8:35-39

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

1 Corinthians 4:9-13

For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles as lowest, as men sentenced to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.

2 Corinthians 4:8-12

being troubled on every side, yet not distressed; perplexed, but not in despair;

2 Corinthians 4:17

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us, in a higher and still higher degree, an everlasting weight of glory;

Philippians 1:28

and in nothing terrified by your adversaries; which is to them an evident token of perdition, 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 constancy and faith in all your persecutions and the afflictions which ye endure;

2 Timothy 3:11

persecutions, sufferings; what things came upon me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord delivered me.

James 1:2-5

Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various temptations;

James 1:12

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he is approved, he will receive the crown of life, which He promised to them that love him.

1 Peter 3:13-14

And who is he that shall harm you, if ye are followers of that which is good?

1 Peter 4:12-16

Beloved, be not surprised at the fiery trial which is taking place among you to prove you, as though a strange thing were befalling you;

1 John 3:12

not as Cain was of the Evil One, and slew his brother. And wherefore did he slay him? Because his own works were evil, and his brothers righteous.

Revelation 2:10

Fear not the things which thou art about to suffer. Behold, now, the Devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye will have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.