14 Bible Verses about Persecution Of The Apostle Paul

and spoke boldly for the Lord's cause, talking and debating with the Greek-speaking Jews. But they tried to kill him.

But the Jews stirred up the well-to-do religious women and the leading men of the town, and they started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.

And when there was a movement on the part of both the heathen and the Jews with the authorities to insult and stone them,

But some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and won the people over, and they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the town, thinking that he was dead.

The crowd also joined in the attack on them, and the magistrates had them stripped and beaten.

While Gallio was governor of Greece the Jews made a concerted attack upon Paul, and brought him before the governor.

for the mass of people followed them shouting, "Kill him!"

They had listened to him until he said that, but then they shouted, "Kill him and get him out of the world! A creature like that ought not to be allowed to live!"

As the dispute was becoming violent, the colonel began to be afraid that they would tear Paul in pieces, and ordered the soldiers to go down and get him away from them and bring him into the barracks.

we have worked with our hands for a living. When people abuse us, we bless them, when they persecute us, we put up with it,

routed, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed;

Five times I have been given one less than forty lashes, by the Jews.

for the sake of which I even suffer imprisonment as a criminal. But God's message is not imprisoned!

my persecutions, my sufferings??he things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra, the persecutions I endured; yet the Lord brought me safely out of them all.