66 Bible Verses about Persecution, Attitudes To

They almost finished me upon earth, and I forsook not thy charges.

And ye shall be hated by all for my name: and he having remained to the end shall be saved.

And we are wearied, working with our own hands: being reviled, we praise; being driven out, we hold up

So that we ourselves boast in you in all the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your expulsions and pressures which ye endure:

Be longsuffering, ye also; make your hearts firm: for the arrival of the Lord has drawn near.

Wherefore we also having such a cloud of witnesses lying round about us, having laid down every weight, and sin easily captivating, by patience we should run the race set before us,

As to the rest, my brethren, be strengthened in the Lord, and in the strength of his power. Put on the complete armor of God, for you to be able to stand against the artifices of the accuser. For the wrestling is not to us against blood and flesh, but against beginnings, against powers, against the chiefs of the world of darkness of this life, against spiritual things of wickedness in heavenly things.read more.
For this take up the complete armor of God, that ye might be able to withstand in the evil day, and having effected all things, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded your loins around with truth, and put on the armor of justice; And fastened under the feet in preparation of the good news of peace; Over all, having taken the shield of faith, in which ye shall be able to quench all the inflamed darts of evil. And take ye the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: By all prayer and supplication praying in all time in Spirit, and for this same watching vigilantly in all perseverance and supplication for the holy: And for me, that the word might be given me, in the opening of my mouth in freedom of speech, to make known the mystery of the good news, For which I am an ambassador in perplexity: that in it I might speak freely, as I ought to speak.

Thou therefore suffer ill treatment, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

Whom resist firm in the faith, knowing that the same of sufferings are completed by your brotherhood in the world.

And thou hast borne, and thou hast patience, and for my name hast thou been wearied, and thou hast not been broken by toil.

Having your turning back good in the nations: that, in what they speak against you as doing evil, from good works, they having beheld, might praise God in the day of inspection.

But I say to you, Love your enemies, praise them cursing you, do well to them hating you, and pray for them threatening you, and driving you out.

Avenging not yourselves, beloved, but give ye place to anger: for it has been written, Vengeance to me; I will repay, says the Lord. If therefore thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for doing this, thou shalt heap up-coals of fire on his head.

(For so is the will of God, those doing good to silence the want of knowledge of the foolish men:)

Having a good consciousness; that, in what they speak evil against you, as doing evil, they threatening your good turning round in Christ should be ashamed.

And not only, but also we boast in affliction: knowing that affliction works perseverance; And perseverance, proof; and proof, hope. And hope shames not; for the love of God has been poured in our hearts by the Holy Spirit given us.

For a moment in his anger; life in his acceptance: weeping shall lodge in the evening, and rejoicing for the morning.

Happy are ye, when they shall upbraid you, and drive you out, and say every evil word against you, lying, for my sake. Rejoice and be transported with joy; for much your reward in the heavens for so they drove out the prophets which before you.

Happy are ye, when men hate you, and when they separate you, and reproach, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. Rejoice in that day, and skip: for, behold, your reward much in heaven: for according to these did their fathers to the prophets.

Truly therefore they went rejoicing from the face of the council, that for his name they were deemed worthy to be dishonoured.

And the crowd set together against them: and the generals having rent their garments, commanded to scourge with rods. And many blows having been put upon them, they cast into prison, having commanded the jailor to keep them safely: Who, having received such an order, cast them into the inner prison, and placed their feet firmly in wood.read more.
And at midnight Paul and Silas praying, praised God: and the imprisoned heard them.

To rejoice with the rejoicing, and weep with the weeping.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill again the necessities of the pressures of Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the church.

By which ye are transported with joy, now for a little, (if it is necessary,) having grieved in various temptations:

Dearly beloved, be not astonished at the refining of fire in you, being for trial to you, as a strange thing happening to you:

The mercies of Jehovah are that we were not consumed, for his compassions were not finished. New for the mornings: great thy faithfulness.

He will deliver me from my strong enemy, and from them hating me: for they were strong above me. They will anticipate me in the day of my calamity, and Jehovah will be a support to me. And he will bring me forth to a wide place: he will deliver me, for he delighted in me.

Jehovah is good for a fortress in the day of straits; and he knew those trusting in him. With an inundation passing through he will make a completion of her place, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

For I reckon that the sufferings of the time now not worthy of the glory about to be revealed in us.

And thou hast closely followed my doctrine, mode of life, purpose, faith, long suffering, love, patience, Expulsions, sufferings, which were to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what expulsions I endured: and the Lord delivered me from all.

So that being confident, we say, The Lord aiding me, and I will not fear what man will do to me.

For thou didst keep the word of my patience, and I will keep thee from the hour of temptation, about to come upon the whole habitable globe, to try them dwelling upon the earth.

The disposition exempt from avarice; being contented with present circumstances: for he has said, I will not send thee back, nor forsake thee.

Also if I shall go into the valley of the shadow of death, I shall not be afraid of evil, for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they will comfort me.

When thou shalt pass through the waters, I with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou shalt go through fire thou shalt not be burnt, and the flame shall not consume thee.

Teaching them to keep all things whatever I have commanded you; and behold, I am with you all the days, even to the end of time. Amen.

Being driven out, but not forsaken; being cast down, but not destroyed;

By all prayer and supplication praying in all time in Spirit, and for this same watching vigilantly in all perseverance and supplication for the holy:

Judge me according to thy justice, O Jehovah my God, and they shall not rejoice over me.

And I as a man that heard not, and not in his mouth confutations For, for thee, O Jehovah, I waited: thou wilt answer, O Jehovah my God.

They shall be ashamed and draw back all hating Zion.

Deliver me from mine enemies, O Jehovah: to thee I covered myself.

I will look about for Jehovah, I will wait for God my deliverer; my God will hear me. Thou shalt not rejoice against me, O mine enemy: if I fell I arose: if I shall sit in darkness, Jehovah a light to me.

Praise those cursing you, and pray for those threatening you.

And shall not God do the avenging of his chosen, crying to him day and night, being slow to anger toward them? I say to you, that he will do their avenging swiftly. But the Son of man having come, shall he find faith upon earth

And the end of all has drawn near: be ye therefore of sound mind, and live abstemiously in prayers.

For he must reign, till he put all enemies under his feet.

For our citizenship is in the heavens; from whence we also expect the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who will change the body of our humiliation, for it to be conformable to the body of his glory, according to the operation by which he is able to place all things under himself.

Even though just with God to return pressure to them pressing you; And to you being pressed a release with us, in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power, In fire of flame giving vengeance to them not knowing God, and to them not listening to the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ:

And the seventh angel sounded the trumpet; and great voices were in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of the world were our Lord's, and his Christ's; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

And from me a decree was set up for that which ye shall do with the old men of these Jews for building this house of God: and the king's riches, that of the tribute beyond the river, expenses shall be speedily given to these men, not to be made to cease.

Song of ascensions. In Jehovah turning back the returning of we were as those dreaming.

From before me a decree was set forth that in every dominion of my kingdom to be trembling and fearing from before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and standing forever, and his kingdom that shall not be destroyed, and his dominion even to the end.

And I overturned the throne of kingdoms, and I destroyed the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; and I overturned the chariot and those riding it; and the horses and their horsemen came down, a man by the sword of his brother. In that day, says Jehovah of armies, I will take thee, O Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, my servant, says Jehovah, and I set thee as a seal; for I chose in thee, says Jehovah of armies.

By which cause I also suffer these things: but I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able to watch my deposits to that day.

Neither be afraid of what things thou art about to suffer: behold, the accuser is about to cast of you into prison, that ye might be tried; and ye shall have pressure ten days: be thou faithful until death, and I will give thee the crown of life.

And one of the elders answered, saying to me, These having put round white robes, who are they? and whence came they And I said to him, Lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they coming out of great pressure, and they washed their robes, and whitened their robes in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he sitting upon the throne will dwell among them.read more.
They shall hunger no more, nor thirst any more; nor should the sun fall upon them, neither any heat. For the Lamb in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall guide them to living fountains of water: and God shall wipe out every tear from their eyes.

And they conquered him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their souls till death.

To the overseer upon the first place of the dawn; chanting of David. My God, my God, wherefore forsookest thou me? far off from my salvation the words of my groaning. My God, I will call in the day, and thou wilt not answer; and in the night no silence to me. And thou inhabiting the holy place, the praises of Israel.read more.
In thee our fathers trusted: they trusted, and thou wilt deliver them. To thee they cried and were delivered: in thee they trusted and were not ashamed. And I a worm and not a man; a reproach of man, and the people despised me. All seeing me will deride me: they will gape with the lip, they will shake the head. He rolled upon Jehovah, he will deliver him: he will deliver him for he delighted in him. Thou causing me to break forth from the womb: causing me to trust upon my mother's breasts. Upon thee was I cast from the womb: from my mother's belly thou my God. Thou wilt not remove far from me, for straits draw near; for none helping. Many bulls surrounded me: the strong of Bashan surrounded me. They opened their mouth upon me, a lion rending and roaring. I was poured out as water, and all my bones were sundered; my heart was as wax being melted in the midst of my bowels. My strength was dried up as the potsherd, and my tongue cleaving to my jaws; and thou wilt set me for the dust of death. For dogs surrounded me: the assembly of those being evil moved round about me: they digged my hands and my feet I shall number all my bones: they will behold and look upon me. They will divide my garments to them, and upon my clothing they will cast the lot

My back I gave to those smiting, and my cheeks to those tearing out the hair: and my face I hid not from shame and spittle.

He was pressed, and he was afflicted, and he will not open his mouth: he was brought as a sheep for the slaughter, and as a sheep before his shearers being dumb and he will not open his mouth. From constraint and from judgment was he taken, and his generation who shall comprehend? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he struck for them. And he will give with the unjust his grave, and with the rich in his deaths, for he did no violence, and no deceit in his mouth.read more.
And Jehovah inclined to crash him; piercing him when his soul shall be set a sacrifice for sin, he shall see seed, he shall prolong the days, and the delight of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand. And be shall see of the labor of his soul, he shall be satisfied: by his knowledge my just servant shall justify for many; and he shall bear their iniquities.. For this I will divide to him with many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; for which his soul was poured out to death, and he was numbered with transgressors; and he lifted up the sin of many, and he will supplicate for transgressors.

Then he loosed to them Barabbas: and having scourged Jesus, delivered him up, that, he might be crucified. Then the soldiers of the leader, having taken Jesus to the Pretorium, gathered together the whole band against him. And having unclothed him, they put round him a scarlet, loose, warm cloak.read more.
And having twined a crown of thorns, they put upon, his head: and a reed upon his right hand: and having fallen upon the knees before him, they mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews! And having spit upon him, they took the reed, and struck upon his head. And when they mocked him, they put off from him the loose, warm cloak, and put on him his garments, and brought him away to crucify.

And Pilate, willing to satisfy the crowd, loosed to them Barabbas, and delivered Jesus, having scourged, that he might be crucified. And the soldiers led him away within the hall, which is the Pretorium; and they call together the whole band. And they clothed him with purple, and put round him, having woven, a thorny crown.read more.
And they began to greet him, Hail, O King of the Jews And they struck his head with a reed, and they spit upon him, and having placed the knees, they worshipped him. And when they mocked him, they put off the purple from him, and clothed him with his own garments, and led him out that they might crucify him.

For what glory, if, sinning and being cuffed, ye endure? but if, doing good, and suffering, ye endure, this is grace with God. For to this were ye called: for also Christ suffered for you, leaving behind to you an underwriting, that ye should follow upon his footsteps: Who did no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth:read more.
Who, being reviled, reviled not back; suffering, he threatened not; and delivered to him judging justly;

But if ye also suffer for justice, happy are ye: be not afraid of their fear, neither be troubled; And consecrate the Lord God in your hearts: and being ready always for a justification to every one asking you the word of the hope in you with meekness and fear: Having a good consciousness; that, in what they speak evil against you, as doing evil, they threatening your good turning round in Christ should be ashamed.read more.
Fur better, doing good, if the will of God will, to suffer, than doing evil.

But, inasmuch as ye participate in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice; that also, in the revelation of his glory, ye might rejoice, transported with joy. If ye be reproached in the name of Christ, ye happy; for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: by them truly he is defamed, and by you he is praised.