'Persecuted' in the Bible

The Lord your God will inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.

For they have persecuted him whom You Yourself have smitten,And they tell of the pain of those whom You have wounded.

Because he did not remember to show lovingkindness,But persecuted the afflicted and needy man,And the despondent in heart, to put them to death.

All Your commandments are faithful;They have persecuted me with a lie; help me!

A Song of Ascents.“Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up,”Let Israel now say,

“Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up;Yet they have not prevailed against me.

For the enemy has persecuted my soul;He has crushed my life to the ground;He has made me dwell in dark places, like those who have long been dead.

“Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also.

I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and putting both men and women into prisons,

and we toil, working with our own hands; when we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure;

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

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

but only, they kept hearing, “He who once persecuted us is now preaching the faith which he once tried to destroy.”

But as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now also.

But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been abolished.

Those who desire to make a good showing in the flesh try to compel you to be circumcised, simply so that they will not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

And when the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child.