Matthew 5:10

The Beatitudes

⁹ Blessed are the peace makers, for they shall be called children of God. ¹⁰  Blessed are the persecuted for righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ¹¹ Blessed are you when they shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say every 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 exclude you from their company, and reproach and cast out your names as evil, on account of the Son of man.

2 Timothy 2:12

if we endure patiently we shall reign together; if we deny him he will deny us;

Matthew 10:23

And when they persecute you in one city, flee to another. For I tell you truly, that you will not finish the cities of Israel till the Son of man shall come.

Matthew 25:34

Then shall the king 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

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

Luke 6:20

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

Luke 21:12

But before all these things they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, committing you to synagogues and prisons, to be brought before kings and governors on my account;

John 15:20

Remember the word which 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 word, they will also keep yours.

Acts 5:40

And they were persuaded by him, and calling the apostles and scourging them, they charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and dismissed them.

Acts 8:1

And Saul consented to his death. And at that time there was a great persecution of the church at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad through the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

Romans 8:35-39

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

1 Corinthians 4:9-13

For I think that God has shown us the apostles last, as devoted to death, for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

2 Corinthians 4:8-12

being afflicted in every thing but not distressed, being perplexed but not in despair,

2 Corinthians 4:17

For the light affliction which is for a moment, works out for us more abundantly an eternal weight of glory,

Philippians 1:28

terrified in nothing by the adversaries, which is to them a token of destruction, but to you of salvation, and this from God;

2 Thessalonians 1:4-7

so that we boast of you in the churches of God, of your patience and faith, in all your persecutions and the afflictions which you endure,

2 Timothy 3:11

persecutions, sufferings, which befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; the great persecutions which I suffered, and the Lord delivered me from all.

James 1:2-5

Account it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various trials,

James 1:12

Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when proved he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

1 Peter 3:13-14

And who is he that will injure you if you are followers of what is good?

1 Peter 4:12-16

BELOVED, think not strange of the fiery trial which is to try you, as if some strange thing happened to you,

1 John 3:12

not as Cain was of the evil one and killed his brother; and why did he kill him? because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

Revelation 2:10

Fear not what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast 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.