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 ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
• Luke 21:17And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.
• Mark 13:13And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
• Matt 24:9Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
• Luke 6:22Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.
• 1 Pet 2:23Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
• John 15:21But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
• Isa 66:5Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name’s sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
• Matt 10:22And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
• Matt 10:39He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
• Rev 2:3And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
• Matt 19:29And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
• 1 Cor 4:10We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
• 2 Cor 4:11For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
• Mark 8:35For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.
• Luke 21:12But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name’s sake.
• Luke 9:24For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
• Rom 8:36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
• Matt 10:25It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?
• Acts 9:16For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake.
• Ps 44:22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
• Matt 27:39And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
• Mark 13:9But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.
• Matt 10:18And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
• Mark 4:17And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended.
• John 9:28Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses’ disciples.
• Ps 35:11False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
• Luke 7:33–34For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.

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