'Persecuted' in the Bible

Those who are persecuted for righteousness are blessed,for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

Be glad and rejoice, because your reward is great in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Remember the word I spoke 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 also keep yours.

I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and putting both men and women in jail,

we labor, working with our own hands. When we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;

For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

we are persecuted but not abandoned; we are struck down but not destroyed.

For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism: I persecuted God’s church to an extreme degree and tried to destroy it.

they simply kept hearing: “He who formerly persecuted us now preaches the faith he once tried to destroy.”

But just as then the child born according to the flesh persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so also 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.

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us; they displease God and are hostile to everyone,

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

When the dragon saw that he had been thrown to earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child.