Bible Verses about Persecution

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• Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
  2 Timothy 3:12lifeJesus
• Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake,
  For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
  Matthew 5:10righteousnesskingdom
• Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
  2 Corinthians 12:10joystrengthweakness
• If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.
  John 15:18Jesusworld
• Blessed are you when men hate you,
  And when they exclude you,
  And revile you, and cast out your name as evil,
  For the Son of Man’s sake.
  Luke 6:22blessingevilJesus
• Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
  Romans 8:35lovesufferingpoverty
• Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.
  Matthew 5:11blessingevilgossip
• But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you.
  Matthew 5:44loveprayer
• So Jesus answered and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel’s, who shall 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 10:29-30evangelismblessingeternal life
• My times are in Your hand;
  Deliver 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 sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
  1 Peter 5:8desiresovercomingdevil
• Yea, 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 23:4fearencouragementdeath
• And I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?’
  Acts 22:7speakingmiracles