14 Bible Verses about Persecution Of The Apostle Paul

And he spoke and disputed against the Hellenists, but they attempted to destroy him.

But the Jews incited the religious women, and the prominent women, and the principle men of the city, and raised up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas. And they threw them out of their boundaries.

And as a violent movement developed, both of the Gentiles and of the Jews, with their rulers, to denounce and to stone them,

But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium. And having persuaded the crowds, and having stoned Paul, they dragged him out of the city, after presuming him to be dead.

And the multitude rose up together against them. And the magistrates, having torn off their clothes, commanded to beat them with rods.

But Gallio being proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord attacked Paul and brought him to the judgment seat,

for the mass of the people followed, crying out, Away with him),

And they heard him until this word. And they lifted up their voice, saying, Away with such a man from the earth, for he is not fit to live.

And a great conflict having developed, the chief captain, having been alarmed lest Paul might be torn apart by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him away from the midst of them, and bring him into the fort.

And we toil, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

persecuted but not forsaken, cast down but not destroyed.

From the Jews five times I received forty save one.

within which I suffer evil to the point of bonds as an evildoer, but the word of God is not bound.

persecutions, sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra. I endured such persecutions, and the Lord rescued me out of them all.