Persecution

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Revelation 2:13 NT

  “I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

• Revelation 6:9-11 NT

  When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had. They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and…

• Revelation 7:13-17 NT

  One of the elders answered, saying to me, “These who are arrayed in the white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?” I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They…

• Revelation 12:11 NT

  They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

• Revelation 17:6 NT

  I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.

• Revelation 20:4 NT

  I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive…

• Lamentations 1:3 OT

  Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude. She dwells among the nations. She finds no rest. All her persecutors overtook her within the straits.

• Acts 8:1 NT

  Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

• Acts 11:19-21 NT

  They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only. But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene,…

• Psalms 124:1-8 OT

  If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say, if it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, when men rose up against us; then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us; then the…

• Psalms 129:1 OT

  Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,

• Psalms 129:2 OT

  many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

• Genesis 4:8 OT

  Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

• 1 John 3:12 NT

  unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

• Genesis 19:9 OT

  They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door.

• Exodus 2:15 OT

  Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

• Exodus 17:4 OT

  Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”

• Psalms 31:13 OT

  For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

• Psalms 59:1 OT

  Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.

• Psalms 59:2 OT

  Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty men.

• 1 Kings 18:4 OT

  for when Jezebel cut off Yahweh’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

• Judges 6:28-32 OT

  When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bull was offered on the altar that was built. They said to one another, “Who has…

• 1 Kings 18:10 OT

  As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn’t find you.

• 1 Kings 19:1-21 OT

  Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of…