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Persecution

he Holman Christian Standard Bible53 results in 51 verses

Dt 30:7

The Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you.

Job 19:22

Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

Ps 69:26

For they persecute the one You struck and talk about the pain of those You wounded.

Ps 119:86

All Your commands are true; people persecute me with lies—help me!

Ps 119:161

Princes have persecuted me without cause, but my heart fears only Your word.

Is 14:6

It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows. It subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.

Mt 5:10

Those who are persecuted for righteousness are blessed, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

Mt 5:11

“You are blessed when they insult and persecute you and falsely say every kind of evil against you because of Me.

Mt 5:12

Be glad and rejoice, because your reward is great in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Mt 5:44

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

Mt 10:23

When they persecute you in one town, escape to another. For I assure you: You will not have covered the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

Mt 13:21

Yet he has no root in himself, but is short-lived. When pressure or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

Mt 24:9

“Then they will hand you over for persecution, and they will kill you. You will be hated by all nations because of My name.

Mk 4:17

But they have no root in themselves; they are short-lived. When pressure or persecution comes because of the word, they immediately stumble.

Mk 10:30

who will not receive 100 times more, now at this time —houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions —and eternal life in the age to come.

Lk 11:49

Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,’

Lk 21:12

But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you. They will hand you over to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors because of My name.

Jn 5:16

Therefore, the Jews began persecuting Jesus because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

Jn 15:20

Remember the word I spoke to you: ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will also keep yours.

Ac 7:52

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They even killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become.

Ac 8:1

Saul agreed with putting him to death. On that day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout the land of Judea and Samaria.

Ac 9:4

Falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?”

Ac 9:5

“Who are You, Lord?” he said. “I am Jesus, the One you are persecuting,” He replied.

Ac 11:19

Those who had been scattered as a result of the persecution that started because of Stephen made their way as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the message to no one except Jews.

Ac 13:50

But the Jews incited the prominent women, who worshiped God, and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them from their district.

Ac 22:4

I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and putting both men and women in jail,

Ac 22:7

I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?’

Ac 22:8

“I answered, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ “He said to me, ‘I am Jesus the Nazarene, the One you are persecuting!’

Ac 26:14

We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice speaking to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

Ac 26:15

“Then I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ “And the Lord replied: ‘I am Jesus, the One you are persecuting.

Ro 8:35

Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can affliction or anguish or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

Ro 12:14

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.

1 Co 4:12

we labor, working with our own hands. When we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;

1 Co 15:9

For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

2 Co 4:9

we are persecuted but not abandoned; we are struck down but not destroyed.

2 Co 12:10

So I take pleasure in weaknesses, insults, catastrophes, persecutions, and in pressures, because of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Ga 1:13

For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism: I persecuted God’s church to an extreme degree and tried to destroy it.

Ga 1:23

they simply kept hearing: “He who formerly persecuted us now preaches the faith he once tried to destroy.”

Ga 4:29

But just as then the child born according to the flesh persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so also now.

Ga 5:11

Now brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.

Ga 6:12

Those who want to make a good impression in the flesh are the ones who would compel you to be circumcised —but only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

Php 3:6

regarding zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness that is in the law, blameless.

1 Th 1:6

and you became imitators of us and of the Lord when, in spite of severe persecution, you welcomed the message with joy from the Holy Spirit.

1 Th 2:15

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us; they displease God and are hostile to everyone,

1 Th 3:3

so that no one will be shaken by these persecutions. For you yourselves know that we are appointed to this.

1 Th 3:4

In fact, when we were with you, we told you previously that we were going to suffer persecution, and as you know, it happened.

1 Th 3:7

Therefore, brothers, in all our distress and persecution, we were encouraged about you through your faith.

2 Th 1:4

Therefore, we ourselves boast about you among God’s churches—about your endurance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you endure.

2 Ti 3:11

along with the persecutions and sufferings that came to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from them all.

2 Ti 3:12

In fact, all those who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

Re 12:13

When the dragon saw that he had been thrown to earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child