14 Bible Verses about Persecution Of The Apostle Paul

Talking and arguing with the Jews of foreign birth, who, however, made attempts to kill him.

But the Jews incited the women of position who worshiped with them, and the leading men of the town, and started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their neighborhood.

And, when there was an attempt on the part of both Gentiles and Jews, with their leading men, to resort to violence and to stone them,

Presently, however, there came some Jews from Antioch, and Iconium who, after they had won over the people, stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the town, thinking him to be dead.

On this the mob rose as one man against them, and the Magistrates stripped them of their clothing and ordered them to be beaten with rods.

While Gallio was governor of Greece, the Jews made a combined attack on Paul, and brought him before the Governor's Bench,

For the people were following in a mass, shouting out: "Kill him!"

Up to this point the people had been listening to Paul, but at these words they called out: "Kill him! A fellow like this ought not to have been allowed to live!"

The dispute was becoming so violent, that the Commanding Officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces between them, ordered the Guard to go down and rescue him from them, and take him into the Fort.

We work hard, toiling with our own hands. We meet abuse with blessings, we meet persecution with endurance,

Though pursued, never abandoned; though struck down, never killed!

Five times I received at the hands of the Jews forty lashes, all but one.

in the service of which I am suffering hardships, even to being put in fetters as a criminal. But the Message of God is not fettered;

as well as of my persecutions, and of the sufferings which I met with at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. You know what persecutions I underwent; and yet the Lord brought me safe out of all!