'Persecuted' in the Bible

Happy those persecuted for righteousness' sake -- because theirs is the reign of the heavens.

'And this way I persecuted unto death, binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women,

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

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

And I, brethren, if uncircumcision I yet preach, why yet am I persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away;

as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised -- only that for the cross of the Christ they may not be persecuted,

and all also who will to live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted,