Matthew 5:11

Jesus pronounces blessing when people insult, persecute, and falsely slander His followers for His sake. It personalizes persecution as suffering specifically for loyalty to Christ.

Cross-references · 28

• 1 Pet 4:14If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
• Luke 21:17And you will be hated by everyone because of My name.
• Mark 13:13You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.
• Matt 24:9Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
• Luke 6:22Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man.
• 1 Pet 2:23When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.
• John 15:21But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.
• Isa 66:5You who tremble at His word, hear the word of the LORD: “Your brothers who hate you and exclude you because of My name have said, ‘Let the LORD be glorified that we may see your joy!’ But they will be put to shame.”
• Matt 10:22You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.
• Matt 10:39Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
• Rev 2:3Without growing weary, you have persevered and endured many things for the sake of My name.
• Matt 19:29And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.
• 1 Cor 4:10We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishonored.
• 2 Cor 4:11For we who are alive are always consigned to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal body.
• Mark 8:35For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and for the gospel will save it.
• Luke 21:12But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. On account of My name they will deliver you to the synagogues and prisons, and they will bring you before kings and governors.
• Luke 9:24For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.
• Rom 8:36As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
• Matt 10:25It is enough for a disciple to be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!
• Acts 9:16I will show him how much he must suffer for My name.”
• Ps 44:22Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
• Matt 27:39And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads
• Mark 13:9So be on your guard. You will be delivered over to the councils and beaten in the synagogues. On My account you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them.
• Matt 10:18On My account, you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles.
• Mark 4:17But they themselves have no root, and they remain for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.
• John 9:28Then they heaped insults on him and said, “You are His disciple; we are disciples of Moses.
• Ps 35:11Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.
• Luke 7:33–34For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’

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