Thematic Bible: Suffering for righteousness' sake
Thematic Bible
Suffering for righteousness' sake » For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure » Saints despised
But when Sanballat, the Horonite, and Tobiah, the slave, the Ammonite, and Geshem, the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn and despised us and said, What is this thing that ye do? Will ye rebel against the king?
And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? Is this to be permitted them? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish on time? Will they resurrect the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which were burned?
I am small and despised; yet I have not forgotten thy precepts.
And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal, Saul's daughter, looked through a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.
He who invokes God and he answers him is mocked by his friend; the just and perfect man is laughed to scorn.
And when the Philistine looked about and saw David, he disdained him, for he was but a youth and ruddy and of a fair countenance.
and that which is vile of the world and that which is despised God has chosen, and things which are not, to bring to nought the things that are,
being blasphemed, we intreat; we are made as the filth of this world and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
Suffering for righteousness' sake » Persecution » General references to
O LORD my God, in thee I have put my trust: save me from all those that persecute me, and deliver me
My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those that persecute me.
All thy commandments are of the same truth; they persecute me wrongfully; help me.
SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of thy words.
For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
O LORD, thou knowest: remember me and visit me and revenge me of my enemies; do not take me away in the prolongation of thy anger, know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
Our necks are under persecution; we are become tired and have no rest.
Suffering for righteousness' sake » Persecution » Predicted concerning the church
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer; behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days; be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.
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Then they shall deliver you up to be afflicted and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
But keep yourselves from men, for they will deliver you up in councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;
But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and into prisons, being brought before kings and governors for my name's sake.
Remember the word that I said unto you, The slave is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.
They shall put you out of the synagogues, and the hour will even come when whosoever kills you will think that he does God service.
And all that desire to live godly in Christ Jesus shall also suffer persecution.
Suffering for righteousness' sake » For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure » Reproach suffered
If ye are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are ye; for the glory and the Spirit of God rests upon you; certainly on their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.
Blessed are ye when men shall hate you and when they shall separate you from their company and shall reproach you and cast out your name as evil for the sake of the Son of man.
esteeming the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.
For this we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
on the one hand ye were made a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and on the other ye became companions of those that were so used.
Let us go forth, therefore, unto him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.
Suffering for righteousness' sake » Martyrdom » General references to
Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have not charity, it profits me nothing.
And I saw thrones, and those who sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them; and I saw the souls of those that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the word of God and who had not worshipped the beast neither its image neither had received its mark upon their foreheads or in their hands; and they shall live and reign with Christ the thousand years.
And brother shall deliver up brother unto death, and the father the child, and children shall rise up against their parents and cause them to be put to death.
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And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those that had been slain because of the word of God and for the testimony which they held:
Suffering for righteousness' sake » Persecution » Of Christ
And Herod with his court despised him and mocked him and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe and sent him again to Pilate.
And for this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill him: because he had done these things on a sabbath.
and rose up and thrust him out of the city and led him unto the brow of the hill upon which their city was built that they might cast him down headlong.
After these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for he would not walk in Judea because the Jews sought to kill him.
I know that ye are Abraham's seed, but ye seek to kill me because my word has no place in you.
Therefore they sought again to take him, but he escaped out of their hand
Suffering for righteousness' sake » Of the jews smiting of the righteous » General references to
And the prince of the priests, Ananias, commanded those that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.
And they spit upon him and took the reed and smote him on the head.
I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to those that plucked off the hair: I did not hide my face from shame and spitting.
Then Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, went near and smote Micaiah on the cheek and said, Which way did the Spirit of the LORD go from me to speak unto thee?
And when he had thus spoken, one of the servants who stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so?
Suffering for righteousness' sake » For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure » death
For unto you it is granted regarding Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake,
For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
Therefore I am content in weaknesses, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake, for when I am weak, then am I strong.
Suffering for righteousness' sake » Examples of
And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.
they were stoned; they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword; they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; poor, afflicted, mistreated,
And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those that had been slain because of the word of God and for the testimony which they held:
Suffering for righteousness' sake » For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure » Loss of reputation
For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your slaves for Jesus' sake.
We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are prudent in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
Suffering for righteousness' sake » Of the jews smiting of the righteous » Upon the cheek
Then Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, went near and smote Micaiah on the cheek and said, Which way did the Spirit of the LORD go from me to speak unto thee?
And unto the one that smites thee on the one cheek offer also the other, and to the one that takes away thy cloak defend not thy coat also.
They have opened their mouth against me; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
Suffering for righteousness' sake » Examples of » Zechariah
And they conspired against him and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
Suffering for righteousness' sake » For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure » Renunciation of worldly treasures
And every one that has forsaken houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my name's sake shall receive a hundredfold and shall inherit eternal life.
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure » Loss of life
He that finds his life shall lose it, and he that loses his life for my sake shall find it.
Suffering for righteousness' sake » For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure » Hatred
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name, but he that endures to the end shall be saved.
Suffering for righteousness' sake » For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure » Persecution
Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake.
Suffering for righteousness' sake » Examples of » Abel
from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the temple; verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.
Suffering for righteousness' sake » For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure » Suffering
for I will show him how much it behooves him to suffer for my name.
Suffering for righteousness' sake » Examples of » John the baptist
And straightway the king sent an executioner and commanded his head to be brought, and he went and beheaded him in the prison
Suffering for righteousness' sake » Examples of » Stephen
and casting him out of the city, they stoned him; and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.
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