Bible Verses about Persecution

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• Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
  2 Timothy 3:12 life Jesus
• Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake,
  for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
  Matthew 5:10 righteousness kingdom
• For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
  2 Corinthians 12:10 joy strength weakness
• If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
  John 15:18 Jesus world
• Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man!
  Luke 6:22 blessing evil Jesus
• Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
  Romans 8:35 love suffering poverty
• Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
  Matthew 5:11 blessing evil gossip
• But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
  Matthew 5:44 love prayer
• Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.”
  Mark 10:29-30 evangelism blessing eternal life
• My times are in your hand;
  rescue me from the hand of my enemies
  and from my persecutors!
  Psalm 31:15 redeemer salvation
• Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.
  Romans 12:14 blessing
• Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
  1 Peter 5:8 desires overcoming devil
• Even though I walk
  through the valley of the shadow of death,
  I will fear no evil,
  for you are with me;
  your rod and your staff,
  they comfort me.
  Psalm 23:4 fear encouragement death
• And I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’
  Acts 22:7 speaking miracles