'Persecuted' in the Bible

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

"Blessed are you when they have insulted and persecuted you, and have said every cruel thing about you falsely for my sake.

Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

"Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name.

And for this the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill him, because he had done these things on sabbath.

Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.

And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

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

For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:

But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.

But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

Now brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.

Those who want to make a good impression in the flesh are the ones who would compel you to be circumcised—but only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

In my zeal for God I persecuted the church. According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless.

For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you too suffered the same [kind of] persecution from your own countrymen, as they did from the Jews,

Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

even though I was formerly a blasphemer [of our Lord] and a persecutor [of His church] and a shameful and outrageous and violent aggressor [toward believers]. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted out of ignorance in unbelief.

and how I was persecuted and suffered in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

In fact, all those who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.