14 Bible Verses about Persecution Of The Apostle Paul

and speaking boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, he was both speaking and disputing with the Hellenists, and they were taking in hand to kill him,

And the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the first men of the city, and did raise persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and did put them out from their borders;

and when there was a purpose both of the nations and of the Jews with their rulers to use them despitefully, and to stone them,

And there came thither, from Antioch and Iconium, Jews, and they having persuaded the multitudes, and having stoned Paul, drew him outside of the city, having supposed him to be dead;

And the multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates having torn their garments from them, were commanding to beat them with rods,

And Gallio being proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a rush with one accord upon Paul, and brought him unto the tribunal,

for the crowd of the people was following after, crying, 'Away with him.'

And they were hearing him unto this word, and they lifted up their voice, saying, 'Away from the earth with such an one; for it is not fit for him to live.'

and a great dissension having come, the chief captain having been afraid lest Paul may be pulled to pieces by them, commanded the soldiery, having gone down, to take him by force out of the midst of them, and to bring him to the castle.

and labour, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;

persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

from Jews five times forty stripes save one I did receive;

in which I suffer evil -- unto bonds, as an evil-doer, but the word of God hath not been bound;

the persecutions, the afflictions, that befell me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of all the Lord did deliver me,