Matthew 5:10

The Beatitudes

⁹ Happy are the peace-makers; for they shall be called the children of God. ¹⁰ Happy are they who are persecuted for righteousness sake; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ¹¹ Happy are ye when men shall revile and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake.

Blessed are

Kingdom of Heaven

Matthew 5:3

saying, Happy are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Luke 6:22

Happy are ye when men shall hate you, and shall separate you from their company, and shall revile you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

2 Timothy 2:12

If we suffer, we shall also reign with him:

Matthew 10:23

But when they persecute you in this city, flee to another; for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over 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 of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you, from the foundation of the world.

Mark 10:30

But he shall receive an hundred fold now in this time, 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 lifting up his eyes on his disciples, he said, Happy are ye poor: for your's is the kingdom of God.

Luke 21:12

But before all these things they shall lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my names sake.

John 15:20

Remember the word that I said to you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

Acts 5:40

And to him they agreed. And having called the apostles, and scourged them, they charged 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, which was in 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, or persecution, or hunger, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

1 Corinthians 4:9-13

For I think God hath set forth us the apostles last, as appointed to death; for we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

2 Corinthians 4:8-12

We are troubled on every side, yet not crushed;

2 Corinthians 4:17

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal 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.

2 Thessalonians 1:4-7

So that we ourselves glory of you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and sufferings which ye endure:

2 Timothy 3:11

Persecutions, afflictions, which befel me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured; but the Lord delivered me out of all.

James 1:2-5

My brethren, count it all joy, when ye fall into divers temptations, Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

James 1:12

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

1 Peter 3:13-14

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

1 Peter 4:12-16

Beloved, wonder not at the burning which is among you, which is for your trial, as if some strange thing befell you: But as ye partake of the sufferings of Christ,

1 John 3:12

Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one, and slew his brother.

Revelation 2:10

Fear none of those things which thou art about to suffer: behold the devil is about to cast some of you into prison that ye may be tried, and ye shall have affliction ten days: Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.