Persecution (Bible Verses)

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Matthew 10:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

2 Timothy 3:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

John 15:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

Daniel 7:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

Revelation 2:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

1 John 3:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.

John 16:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

John 16:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.

Acts 23:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

Matthew 10:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;

1 Peter 3:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;

Mark 13:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:

Matthew 10:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.

Psalms 35:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

1 Thessalonians 2:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

Exodus 1:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

Acts 21:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.

Acts 24:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:

Acts 12:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.

Psalms 69:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.

Acts 22:22 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.

Luke 21:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.

Philippians 3:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

John 18:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest.

Psalms 109:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

Jeremiah 20:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.

Acts 9:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.

Matthew 14:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.

Acts 21:39 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.

Acts 7:54 KJV Bible Verse Image
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When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.

Acts 9:29 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.

Jeremiah 18:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.

Psalms 35:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

Matthew 26:67 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,

Mark 13:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.

Acts 22:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:

1 Corinthians 4:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

Matthew 26:68 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee?

Jeremiah 20:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.

Acts 26:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

1 Peter 4:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.

Acts 21:27 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,

Acts 21:33 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.

Matthew 27:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.

Acts 22:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.

Psalms 86:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

Jeremiah 20:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.

Acts 21:29 KJV Bible Verse Image
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(For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)

Psalms 119:161 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.

Acts 25:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him against Paul, and besought him,

Matthew 10:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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It 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 21:36 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.

Psalms 69:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

Jeremiah 20:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.

Jeremiah 18:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.

Luke 21:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.

John 19:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.

Revelation 11:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.

Esther 3:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, that they should be ready against that day.

Jeremiah 37:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.

Daniel 3:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever.

Acts 4:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;

Acts 24:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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We accept it always, and in all places, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness.

Acts 28:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.

Jeremiah 37:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

Acts 9:30 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Which when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.

Acts 23:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.

Luke 21:23 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

Esther 3:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told them that he was a Jew.

Acts 21:31 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

Acts 22:29 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

Jeremiah 38:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.

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