Bible Verses about Persecution

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• Indeed, all who want to live in a godly way in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
  2 Timothy 3:12lifeJesus
• Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
  Matthew 5:10righteousnesskingdom
• Therefore I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in distresses, in persecutions, in difficulties, in behalf of Christ; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
  2 Corinthians 12:10joystrengthweakness
• If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.
  John 15:18Jesusworld
• Blessed are you when the people hate you, and when they exclude you, and insult you, and scorn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man.
  Luke 6:22blessingevilJesus
• Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or trouble, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
  Romans 8:35lovesufferingpoverty
• Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.
  Matthew 5:11blessingevilgossip
• But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
  Matthew 5:44loveprayer
• 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 farms, for My sake and for the gospel’s sake, but that he will receive a hundred times as much now in the present age, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, along with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life.”
  Mark 10:29-30evangelismblessingeternal life
• My times are in Your hand;
  Rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from those who persecute me.
  Psalm 31:15redeemersalvation
• Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.
  Romans 12:14blessing
• Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
  1 Peter 5:8desiresovercomingdevil
• Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
  I fear no evil, for You are with me;
  Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
  Psalm 23:4fearencouragementdeath
• And I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?’
  Acts 22:7speakingmiracles