14 Bible Verses about Persecution Of The Apostle Paul

He spoke and disputed against the Hellenists, but they were seeking to kill him.

But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.

When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,

But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the crowds, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

The crowd rose up together against them, and the magistrates tore their clothes off of them, and commanded them to be beaten with rods.

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

for the crowd of the people followed after, crying out, "Away with him."

They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice, and said, "Rid the earth of this fellow, for he is not fit to live."

When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.

We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

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

in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God's word is not chained.

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. Out of them all the Lord delivered me.