Persecution

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Isaiah 53:7 OT

  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.

• Mark 10:30 NT

  but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.

• Luke 21:12 NT

  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.

• John 15:20 NT

  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.

• Jeremiah 15:15 OT

  Yahweh, you know. Remember me, visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.

• Zechariah 2:8 OT

  For Yahweh of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

• Acts 9:4 NT

  He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”

• Acts 9:5 NT

  He said, “Who are you, Lord?” The Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

• 2 Timothy 3:12 NT

  Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

• John 16:3 NT

  They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

• John 15:24 NT

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

• Matthew 13:21 NT

  yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

• Psalms 10:2 OT

  In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

• Acts 13:50 NT

  But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.

• Acts 26:9-11 NT

  “I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. I also did this in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and…

• Matthew 26:52 NT

  Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.

• Galatians 4:29 NT

  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 5:11 NT

  But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

• Acts 22:4 NT

  I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

• 2 Corinthians 4:9 NT

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

• Daniel 3:25 OT

  He answered, “Look, I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are unharmed. The appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.”

• Daniel 3:28 OT

  Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might…

• 2 Corinthians 1:10 NT

  who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

• 2 Timothy 3:11 NT

  persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.