Bible Verses About Persecution

"Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?"

"But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?"

"O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:"

"Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah."

"The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined."

"My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me."

"Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation."

"Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them."

"For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded."

"Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him."

"So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm."

"How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?"

"All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me."

"Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction."

"And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:"

"Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD."

"Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake."

"But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;"

"But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come."

"Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:"

"Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:"

"But 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."

"And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day."

"Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also."

"Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not."

"Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest."

"Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended."

"And 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."

"And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles."

"Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only."

"But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts."

"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?"

"And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased."

"As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ."

"Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution."

"And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee."

"Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart."

"Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word."

"For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead."

"He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth."

"Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied."

"Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."

"Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you."

"Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:"

"And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women."

"And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities."

"And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:"

"For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God."

"Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;"

"For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:"

"But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed."

"But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now."

"Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:"

"And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child."