PERSECUTION

Passages on this topic · 300

• Genesis 3:15

  I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

• Genesis 49:23

  The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecute him:

• Job 1:9

  Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

• Job 2:4

  Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

• Job 2:5

  But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”

• Job 12:4

  I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

• Job 12:5

  In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

• Psalms 2:1

  Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

• Psalms 2:2

  The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

• Psalms 2:3

  “Let’s break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us.”

• Psalms 2:4

  He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

• Psalms 2:5

  Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:

• Psalms 11:2

  For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

• Psalms 22:1

  For the Chief Musician; set to “The Doe of the Morning.” A Psalm by David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

• Psalms 22:2

  My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

• Psalms 22:6

  But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

• Psalms 22:7

  All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

• Psalms 22:8

  “He trusts in Yahweh; let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”

• Psalms 22:11

  Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is no one to help.

• Psalms 22:12

  Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

• Psalms 22:13

  They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

• Psalms 22:14

  I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.

• Psalms 22:15

  My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

• Psalms 22:16

  For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

• Psalms 22:17

  I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.

• Psalms 22:18

  They divide my garments among them. They cast lots for my clothing.

• Psalms 22:19

  But don’t be far off, Yahweh. You are my help: hurry to help me.

• Psalms 22:20

  Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog.

• Psalms 22:21

  Save me from the lion’s mouth! Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen, you have answered me.

• Psalms 37:32

  The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

• Psalms 38:20

  They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

• Psalms 42:3

  My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

• Psalms 42:10

  As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

• Psalms 44:15

  All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,

• Psalms 44:16

  At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.

• Psalms 44:17

  All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.

• Psalms 44:18

  Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

• Psalms 44:22

  Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.

• Psalms 56:5

  All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

• Psalms 69:1

  For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Lilies.” By David. Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!

• Psalms 69:2

  I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

• Psalms 69:3

  I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

• Psalms 69:4

  Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

• Psalms 69:5

  God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you.

• Psalms 69:6

  Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.

• Psalms 69:7

  Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.

• Psalms 69:8

  I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.

• Psalms 69:9

  For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

• Psalms 69:10

  When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.

• Psalms 69:11

  When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

• Psalms 69:12

  Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.

• Psalms 69:13

  But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.

• Psalms 69:14

  Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

• Psalms 69:15

  Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.

• Psalms 69:16

  Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.

• Psalms 69:17

  Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!

• Psalms 69:18

  Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.

• Psalms 69:19

  You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.

• Psalms 69:20

  Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

• Psalms 69:21

  They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

• Psalms 74:7

  They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.

• Psalms 74:8

  They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.

• Psalms 94:5

  They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.

• Psalms 109:25

  I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

• Psalms 119:51

  The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law.

• Psalms 119:61

  The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won’t forget your law.

• Psalms 119:69

  The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

• Psalms 119:78

  Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

• Psalms 119:85

  The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.

• Psalms 119:86

  All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

• Psalms 119:87

  They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn’t forsake your precepts.

• Psalms 119:95

  The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.

• Psalms 119:110

  The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.

• Psalms 119:157

  Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.

• Psalms 119:161

  Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.

• Proverbs 29:10

  The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity; and they seek the life of the upright.

• Proverbs 29:27

  A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.

• Isaiah 26:20

  Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

• Isaiah 29:20

  For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off —

• Isaiah 29:21

  who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

• Isaiah 49:7

  Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

• Isaiah 50:6

  I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.

• Isaiah 51:12

  “I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

• Isaiah 51:13

  Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor?

• Isaiah 52:14

  Just as many were astonished at you (his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men),

• Isaiah 53:2

  For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

• Isaiah 53:3

  He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

• Isaiah 53:4

  Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

• Isaiah 53:5

  But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

• Isaiah 53:7

  He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.

• Isaiah 53:8

  He was taken away by oppression and judgment; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?

• Isaiah 53:9

  They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death; although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

• Isaiah 53:10

  Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days, and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.

• Isaiah 59:15

  Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

• Jeremiah 2:30

  “I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

• Jeremiah 11:19

  But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn’t know that they had devised devices against me, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

• Jeremiah 15:10

  Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet everyone of them curses me.

• Jeremiah 18:18

  Then they said, “Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”

• Jeremiah 20:7

  Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughing-stock all day. Every one mocks me.

• Jeremiah 20:8

  For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.

• Jeremiah 26:11

  Then spoke the priests and the prophets to the princes and to all the people, saying, “This man is worthy of death; for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.”

• Jeremiah 26:12

  Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and to all the people, saying, “Yahweh sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard.

• Jeremiah 26:13

  Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey Yahweh your God’s voice; and Yahweh will relent from the evil that he has pronounced against you.

• Jeremiah 26:14

  But as for me, behold, I am in your hand. Do with me what is good and right in your eyes.

• Jeremiah 50:7

  All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, ‘We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.’

• Amos 5:10

  They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

• Micah 5:1

  Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.

• Habakkuk 1:13

  You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

• Matthew 2:13

  Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.”

• Matthew 5:10

  Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

• Matthew 5:11

  “Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

• Matthew 5:12

  Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

• Matthew 5:44

  But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

• Matthew 10:16

  “Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

• Matthew 10:17

  But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.

• Matthew 10:18

  Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

• Matthew 10:21

  “Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

• Matthew 10:22

  You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

• Matthew 10:23

  But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel, until the Son of Man has come.

• Matthew 10:28

  Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

• Matthew 11:19

  The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

• Matthew 12:14

  But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.

• Matthew 12:24

  But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

• Matthew 16:1

  The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

• Matthew 20:22

  But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to him, “We are able.”

• Matthew 20:23

  He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

• Matthew 22:15

  Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.

• Matthew 23:34

  Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

• Matthew 23:35

  that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.

• Matthew 24:8

  But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.

• Matthew 24:9

  Then 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.

• Matthew 24:10

  Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

• Matthew 26:3

  Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

• Matthew 26:4

  They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.

• Matthew 26:14

  Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests,

• Matthew 26:15

  and said, “What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?” They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.

• Matthew 26:16

  From that time he sought opportunity to betray him.

• Matthew 26:59

  Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

• Matthew 26:67

  Then they spit in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

• Matthew 27:25

  All the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!”

• Matthew 27:26

  Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified.

• Matthew 27:27

  Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium, and gathered the whole garrison together against him.

• Matthew 27:28

  They stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him.

• Matthew 27:29

  They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

• Matthew 27:30

  They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head.

• Matthew 27:39

  Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,

• Matthew 27:40

  and saying, “You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”

• Matthew 27:41

  Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees, and the elders, said,

• Matthew 27:42

  “He saved others, but he can’t save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.

• Matthew 27:43

  He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”

• Matthew 27:44

  The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach.

• Mark 3:6

  The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

• Mark 3:21

  When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they said, “He is insane.”

• Mark 3:22

  The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons.”

• Mark 9:42

  Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.

• Mark 11:18

  The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.

• Mark 12:13

  They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.

• Mark 13:9

  But 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.

• Mark 13:11

  When they lead you away and deliver you up, don’t be anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

• Mark 13:12

  “Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

• Mark 13:13

  You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.

• Mark 14:1

  It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.

• Mark 14:48

  Jesus answered them, “Have you come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to seize me?

• Mark 14:65

  Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, “Prophesy!” The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.

• Mark 15:14

  Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they cried out exceedingly, “Crucify him!”

• Mark 15:34

  At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

• Mark 16:17

  These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;

• Luke 4:28

  They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things.

• Luke 4:29

  They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.

• Luke 6:11

  But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.

• Luke 6:22

  Blessed 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.

• Luke 6:23

  Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

• Luke 6:26

  Woe, when men speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.

• Luke 7:34

  The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

• Luke 11:15

  But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

• Luke 11:53

  As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;

• Luke 11:54

  lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.

• Luke 12:50

  But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

• Luke 13:31

  On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying to him, “Get out of here, and go away, for Herod wants to kill you.”

• Luke 17:33

  Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.

• Luke 19:14

  But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’

• Luke 19:47

  He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.

• Luke 20:20

  They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

• Luke 21:12

  But 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 21:13

  It will turn out as a testimony for you.

• Luke 21:14

  Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer,

• Luke 21:15

  for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

• Luke 21:16

  You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.

• Luke 21:17

  You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake.

• Luke 21:18

  And not a hair of your head will perish.

• Luke 21:19

  “By your endurance you will win your lives.

• Luke 22:2

  The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.

• Luke 22:3

  Satan entered into Judas, who was also called Iscariot, who was counted with the twelve.

• Luke 22:4

  He went away, and talked with the chief priests and captains about how he might deliver him to them.

• Luke 22:5

  They were glad, and agreed to give him money.

• Luke 22:52

  Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?

• Luke 22:53

  When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”

• Luke 22:63

  The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him.

• Luke 22:64

  Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, “Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?”

• Luke 22:65

  They spoke many other things against him, insulting him.

• Luke 23:11

  Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.

• Luke 23:23

  But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.

• John 5:16

  For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

• John 7:1

  After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

• John 7:7

  The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

• John 7:19

  Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”

• John 7:20

  The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?”

• John 7:30

  They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

• John 7:32

  The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

• John 8:37

  I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.

• John 8:40

  But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.

• John 8:48

  Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”

• John 8:52

  Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’

• John 8:59

  Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.

• John 10:20

  Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”

• John 10:31

  Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.

• John 10:39

  They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.

• John 11:57

  Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.

• John 12:42

  Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,

• John 14:30

  I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

• John 15:18

  If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

• John 15:19

  If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

• John 15:20

  Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

• John 15:21

  But all these things will they do to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

• John 15:24

  If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.

• John 15:25

  But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

• John 16:1

  “I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.

• John 16:2

  They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

• John 17:14

  I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

• John 18:22

  When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest like that?”

• John 18:23

  Jesus answered him, “If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?”

• John 18:29

  Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”

• John 18:30

  They answered him, “If this man weren’t an evildoer, we wouldn’t have delivered him up to you.”

• John 19:6

  When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.”

• John 19:15

  They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”

• Acts 2:23

  him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

• Acts 3:13

  The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.

• Acts 3:14

  But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

• Acts 3:15

  and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

• Acts 4:16

  saying, “What shall we do to these men? Because indeed a notable miracle has been done through them, as can be plainly seen by all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we can’t deny it.

• Acts 4:17

  But so that this spreads no further among the people, let’s threaten them, that from now on they don’t speak to anyone in this name.”

• Acts 4:18

  They called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.

• Acts 4:19

  But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,

• Acts 4:20

  for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

• Acts 4:27

  “For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together

• Acts 5:29

  But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

• Acts 5:40

  They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

• Acts 5:41

  They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.

• Acts 5:42

  Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.

• Acts 7:52

  Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

• Acts 8:4

  Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around preaching the word.

• Acts 13:27

  For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

• Acts 13:28

  Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.

• Acts 13:29

  When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.

• Acts 28:22

  But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.”

• Romans 8:17

  and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

• Romans 8:35

  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

• Romans 8:36

  Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

• Romans 8:37

  No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

• 1 Corinthians 4:9

  For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

• 1 Corinthians 4:10

  We 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.

• 1 Corinthians 4:11

  Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

• 1 Corinthians 4:12

  We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

• 1 Corinthians 4:13

  Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

• 1 Corinthians 13:3

  If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

• 2 Corinthians 4:8

  We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

• 2 Corinthians 4:9

  pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

• 2 Corinthians 4:10

  always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

• 2 Corinthians 4:11

  For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

• 2 Corinthians 4:12

  So then death works in us, but life in you.

• 2 Corinthians 6:4

  but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

• 2 Corinthians 6:5

  in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

• 2 Corinthians 6:8

  by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;

• 2 Corinthians 6:9

  as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;

• 2 Corinthians 6:10

  as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

• 2 Corinthians 11:23

  Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

• 2 Corinthians 11:24

  Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one.

• 2 Corinthians 11:25

  Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.

• 2 Corinthians 11:26

  I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

• 2 Corinthians 11:27

  in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

• 2 Corinthians 12:10

  Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

• Galatians 4:29

  But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

• Galatians 6:12

  As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

• Galatians 6:17

  From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body.

• Philippians 1:12

  Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News;

• Philippians 1:13

  so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ;

• Philippians 1:14

  and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.

• Philippians 1:28

  and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

• Philippians 1:29

  Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

• Colossians 1:24

  Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly;

• 1 Thessalonians 1:6

  You became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

• 1 Thessalonians 2:2

  but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.

• 1 Thessalonians 2:14

  For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews;

• 1 Thessalonians 2:15

  who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn’t please God, and are contrary to all men;

• 2 Thessalonians 1:4

  so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

• 2 Timothy 1:8

  Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

• 2 Timothy 1:12

  For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

• Hebrews 12:2

  looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

• Hebrews 12:3

  For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

• 1 Peter 4:1

  Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;