35 Bible Verses about Persecution, Forms Of

This filled the high priest Annas and his allies, the Sadducean party, with bitter jealousy; they laid hands on the apostles and put them into the public prison,

(He knew quite well that Jesus had been delivered up out of envy.

But when the Jews saw the crowds they were filled with jealousy; they began to contradict what Paul said and to abuse him.

for wherever jealousy and rivalry exist, there disorder reigns and every evil.

The high priests and scribes were trying how to get him put to death (for they were afraid of the people),

The news of this troubled king Herod and all Jerusalem as well;

It was about that time that a great commotion arose over the Way. This was how it happened. By making silver shrines of Artemis a silversmith called Demetrius was the means of bringing rich profit to his workmen. So he got them together, along with the workmen who belonged to similar trades, and said to them: "My men, you know this trade is the source of our wealth.read more.
You also see and hear that not only at Ephesus but almost all over Asia this fellow Paul has drawn off a considerable number of people by his persuasions. He declares that hand-made gods are not gods at all. Now the danger is not only that we will have our trade discredited but that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will fall into contempt and that she will be degraded from her majestic glory, she whom all Asia and the wide world worship."

we are not to be like Cain, who belonged to the evil One and slew his brother. And why did he slay him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's just.

the world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its deeds are evil.

Blessed are you when men denounce you and persecute you and utter all manner of evil against you for my sake;

And the crowd disputed about him hotly; some said, "He is a good man," but others said, "No, he is misleading the people."

They then instigated people to say, "We have heard him talking blasphemy against Moses and God."

Now, they have heard that you teach all Jews who live among Gentiles to break away from Moses and not to circumcise their children, nor to follow the old customs.

The fact is, we have found this man is a perfect pest; he stirs up sedition among the Jews all over the world and he is a ringleader of the Nazarene sect.

(His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that anyone who confessed him to be Christ should be excommunicated.

However, to keep things from going any further with the people, we had better threaten them that they are not to tell anyone in future about this Name."

when defamed, we try to conciliate. To this hour we are treated as the scum of the earth, the very refuse of the world!

Let us go to him outside the camp, then, bearing his obloquy

I know your distress and your poverty (but you are rich!): I know how you are being slandered by those who style themselves Jews (no Jews are they, but a mere synagogue of Satan!).

and you will be hated by all men on account of my name; but he will be saved who holds out to the very end.

We know God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this fellow comes from."

Still, a number even of the authorities believed in him, though they would not confess it on account of the Pharisees, in case of being excommunicated;

They will excommunicate you; indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will imagine he is performing a service to God.

What can ever part us from Christ's love? Can anguish or calamity or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword?

Beware of men, they will hand you over to sanhedrins and scourge you in their synagogues,

Look to yourselves. Men will hand you over to Sanhedrins and you will be flogged in synagogues and brought before governors and kings for my sake, to testify to them.

Truly, truly I tell you, you put on your own girdle and went wherever you wanted, when you were young; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands for someone to gird you, and you will be taken where you have no wish to go" (he said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God); then he added, "Follow me."

They gave in to him, and after summoning the apostles and giving them a flogging, they released them with instructions that they were not to speak about the name of Jesus.

But Paul replied, "They flogged us in public and without a trial, flogged Roman citizens! They put us in prison, and now they are going to get rid of us secretly! No indeed! Let them come here themselves and take us out!"

three times I have been beaten by the Romans, once pelted with stones, three times shipwrecked, adrift at sea for a whole night and day;

Let no one interfere with me after this, for I bear branded on my body the owner's stamp of Jesus.

others, again, had to experience scoffs and scourging, aye chains and imprisonment ??37 they were stoned, sawn in two, and cut to pieces; they had to roam about in sheepskins and goatskins, forlorn, oppressed, ill-treated (men of whom the world was not worthy), wanderers in the desert and among the hills, in caves and gullies. They all won their record for faith, but the Promise they did not obtain.

though I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a wanton aggressor. I obtained mercy because in my unbelief I had acted out of ignorance;

It was about that time that king Herod laid hands of violence on some members of the church.

they merely heard that 'our former persecutor is now preaching the faith he once harried,'