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. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.
• Luke 21:17You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake.
• Mark 13:13You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
• Matt 24:9Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.
• Luke 6:22Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.
• 1 Pet 2:23Who, when he was cursed, didn’t curse back. When he suffered, didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;
• John 15:21But all these things will they do to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.
• Isa 66:5Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.
• Matt 10:22You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
• Matt 10:39He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.
• Rev 2:3You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.
• Matt 19:29Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
• 1 Cor 4:10We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.
• 2 Cor 4:11For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.
• Mark 8:35For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.
• Luke 21:12But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.
• Luke 9:24For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.
• Rom 8:36Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
• Matt 10:25It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!
• Acts 9:16For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”
• Ps 44:22Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
• Matt 27:39Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,
• Mark 13:9But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.
• Matt 10:18Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.
• Mark 4:17They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.
• John 9:28They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
• Ps 35:11Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.
• Luke 7:33–34For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’

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