Thematic Bible: Suffering for righteousness' sake
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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 servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed at us, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that you do? will you rebel against the king?
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And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they finish in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
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I am small and despised: yet do I not forget your 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.
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I am as one mocked of his neighbor, who calls upon God, and he answers him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
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And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he despised him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.
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And base things of the world, and things which are despised, has God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nothing things that are:
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Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the trash of all things unto this day.
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » Persecution » General references to
[A shaggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush, a Benjamite.] O LORD my God, in you do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:
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My times are in your hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me.
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All your commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help me.
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Many are my persecutors and my enemies; yet do I not turn from your testimonies.
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[Shin] Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart stands in awe of your word.
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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.
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O LORD, you know: remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered rebuke.
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Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest.
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » Persecution » Predicted concerning the church
Fear none of those things which you will suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried; and you shall have tribulation ten days: be faithful unto death, and I will give you a crown of life.
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Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and you shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
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But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;
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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 rulers for my name's sake.
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Remember the word that I said unto 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.
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They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time comes, that whosoever kills you will think that he does God service.
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Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure » Reproach suffered
If you be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are you; for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
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Blessed are you, 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 Son of man's sake.
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Esteeming the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he looked for the recompense of the reward.
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For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those that believe.
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Partly, while you were made a public display both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, while you became companions of them that were so used.
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Let us go forth therefore unto him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » Martyrdom » General references to
Then Paul answered, What mean you to weep and to break my heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
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And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.
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And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
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And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the 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 them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » Persecution » Of Christ
And Herod with his men of war despised him, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.
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And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
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And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
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After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
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I know that you are Abraham's descendant; but you seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you.
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Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » Of the jews smiting of the righteous » General references to
And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.
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And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and struck him on the head.
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I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked out the beard: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
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But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto you?
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And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers who stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answer you the high priest so?
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure » death
For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;
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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.
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Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » Examples of
And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.
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They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
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And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
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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 servants for Jesus' sake.
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We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are despised.
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » Of the jews smiting of the righteous » Upon the cheek
But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto you?
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And unto him that smites you on the one cheek offer also the other; and he that takes away your cloak forbid not to take your coat also.
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They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
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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.
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure » Renunciation of worldly treasures
And everyone 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 everlasting 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.
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure » Hatred
And you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endures to the end shall be saved.
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure » Persecution
Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » Examples of » Abel
From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure » Suffering
For I will show him what great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » Examples of » John the baptist
And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison,
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » Examples of » Stephen
And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.
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