14 Bible Verses about Persecution Of The Apostle Paul

He also used to hold conversations and debates with the Grecian Jews, but they kept trying to kill him.

But the Jews urged on the devout women of high rank, and the leading citizens, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of the district,

And when both the Gentiles and the Jews with their ruler made a hostile move to maltreat and to stone them,

And now a party of Jews came down form Antioch and Iconium, and after persuading the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.

The crowd, too, rose up together against them, and the praetors, after having them stripped, and after ordering them to be flogged,

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose against Paul, and brought him before the tribunal.

for the whole mass of the people were following him, shouting, "Away with him!"

Until they heard this last statement, the people were listening to Paul, but now they roared out. "Away with such a fellow from the earth! He is not fit to live!"

But when the dissension became violent, the tribune, fearing that they would tear Paul in pieces, ordered the troops to march down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.

Homeless men, we toil, working with our own hands.

persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.

Five times at the hands of the Jews, I have received one short of forty lashes.

For preaching it I am suffering, and am even put in chains as a malefactor.

as well as the persecutions and sufferings which befell me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. You know all the persecutions I endured, and how the Lord delivered me out of them all!