14 Bible Verses about Persecution Of The Apostle Paul

And he spoke boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and argued with the Hellenists. But they seized him in order to kill him.

But the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women, and the chief ones of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas. And they threw them out of their borders.

And when there was an assault made by both the nations and the Jews, with their rulers, in order to insult and to stone them,

And Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, who, having persuaded the people, and having stoned Paul, they drew him out of the city, supposing him to have died.

And the crowd rose up against them. And tearing off their clothes, the judges ordered them to be flogged.

But Gallio being pro-consul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rushed against Paul and brought him to the judgment seat,

For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him!

And they listened to him until this word, and then they lifted up their voice, saying, Take such a one from the earth! For it is not fitting that he should live.

And dissension arising, the chiliarch, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and to take him from among them by force, and to bring him into the fortress.

And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it;

having been persecuted, but not having been forsaken; having been thrown down, but not having been destroyed;

Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one.

in which I suffer ill as an evildoer, even to bonds. But the Word of God is not chained.

persecutions, afflictions, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra. What persecutions I endured! But the Lord delivered me out of all.