Thematic Bible: Originates in
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Persecution » Originates in » Mistaken zeal
But the Jews moved the worshipful and honorable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas: and expelled them out of their coasts.
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I also verily thought in myself, that I ought to do many contrary things, clean against the name of Jesus of Nazareth: which things I also did in Jerusalem. Where many of the saints shut I up in prison, and had received authority of the high priests: And when they were put to death I gave the sentence. "And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme: and was yet more mad upon them, and persecuted them even unto strange cities.
Persecution » Originates in » Hated to God and Christ
If I had not done works among them which none other man did, they had not had sin. But now have they seen, and yet have hated both me and my father:
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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.
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Persecution » Originates in » Hatred to the gospel
yet hath no roots in himself, and therefore dureth but a season: for as soon as tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he falleth.
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Persecution » Originates in » Pride
While the ungodly hath the overhand, the poor must suffer persecution; let them be taken in the crafty wiliness that they have imagined!
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Persecution » Originates in » Ignorance of God and Christ
And such things will they do unto you, because they have not known the father, neither yet me.
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