14 Bible Verses about Persecution Of The Apostle Paul

he also held conversations and debates with the Hellenists. But when the brothers learned that the Hellenists were attempting to make away with him,

But the Jews incited the devout women of high rank and the leading men in the town, who stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their territory.

But, when the Gentiles and Jews along with their rulers made a hostile movement to insult and stone them,

But Jews from Antioch and Iconium arrived, who won over the crowds, and after pelting Paul with stones they dragged him outside the town, thinking he was dead.

The crowd also joined in the attack upon them, while the praetors, after having them stripped and after ordering them to be flogged with rods,

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia the Jews without exception rose against Paul and brought him up before the tribunal,

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

Till he said that, they had listened to him. But at that they shouted, "Away with such a creature from the earth! He is not fit to live!"

The quarrel then became so violent that the commander was afraid they would tear Paul in pieces; he therefore ordered the troops to march down and take him from them by force, bringing him inside the barracks.

we work hard for our living; when reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we put up with it;

persecuted but not abandoned, struck down but not destroyed ??10 wherever I go, I am being killed in the body as Jesus was, so that the life of Jesus may come out in my body:

five times have I got forty lashes (all but one) from the Jews,

for which I have to suffer imprisonment as if I were a criminal. (But there is no prison for the word of God.)

my persecutions, my sufferings ??all that befell me at Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, all the persecutions I had to undergo, from which the Lord rescued me.