6 Bible Verses about Persecution, Origin

And they will do these things unto you because they do not know the Father, nor me.

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.

yet he has no root in himself but is temporal, for when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, by and by he is offended.

The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor; let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women and the principals of the city and raised up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them out of their borders.

I verily had thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. Which things I also did in Jerusalem, and I shut up many of the saints in prison, having received authority from the princes of the priests, and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them. And I punished them often in every synagogue and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto foreign cities.