Bible Verses about Persecution

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• Yes, and everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
  2 Timothy 3:12 life Jesus
• God blesses those who are persecuted for doing right,
  for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.
  Matthew 5:10 righteousness kingdom
• That’s why I take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
  2 Corinthians 12:10 joy strength weakness
• If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.
  John 15:18 Jesus world
• What blessings await you when people hate you and exclude you and mock you and curse you as evil because you follow the Son of Man.
  Luke 6:22 blessing evil Jesus
• Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death?
  Romans 8:35 love suffering poverty
• God blesses you when people mock you and persecute you and lie about you and say all sorts of evil things against you because you are my followers.
  Matthew 5:11 blessing evil gossip
• But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you!
  Matthew 5:44 love prayer
• “Yes,” Jesus replied, “and I assure you that everyone who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or property, for my sake and for the Good News, will receive now in return a hundred times as many houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and property—along with persecution. And in the world to come that person will have eternal life.”
  Mark 10:29-30 evangelism blessing eternal life
• My future is in your hands.
  Rescue me from those who hunt me down relentlessly.
  Psalm 31:15 redeemer salvation
• Bless those who persecute you. Don’t curse them; pray that God will bless them.
  Romans 12:14 blessing
• Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.
  1 Peter 5:8 desires overcoming devil
• Even when I walk
  through the darkest valley,
  I will not be afraid,
  for you are close beside me.
  Your rod and your staff
  protect and comfort me.
  Psalm 23:4 fear encouragement death
• I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’
  Acts 22:7 speaking miracles