Persecution

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• Psalms 119:161 OT

  Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.

• Proverbs 29:10 OT

  The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity; and they seek the life of the upright.

• Proverbs 29:27 OT

  A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.

• Isaiah 26:20 OT

  Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

• Isaiah 29:20 OT

  For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—

• Isaiah 29:21 OT

  who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

• Isaiah 51:12 OT

  “I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

• Isaiah 51:13 OT

  Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the…

• Isaiah 59:15 OT

  Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

• Jeremiah 2:30 OT

  “I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

• Jeremiah 11:19 OT

  But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no…

• Jeremiah 15:10 OT

  Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them curses me.

• Jeremiah 18:18 OT

  Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of…

• Jeremiah 20:7 OT

  Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.

• Jeremiah 20:8 OT

  For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, “Violence and destruction!” because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.

• Jeremiah 26:11-14 OT

  Then the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes and to all the people, saying, “This man is worthy of death; for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.” Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and to…

• Jeremiah 50:7 OT

  All who found them have devoured them. Their adversaries said, ‘We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.’

• Amos 5:10 OT

  They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

• Habakkuk 1:13 OT

  You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

• Matthew 5:10-12 NT

  Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. “Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be…

• Matthew 5:44 NT

  But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

• Matthew 10:16-18 NT

  “Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you. Yes, and you will be brought…

• Matthew 10:21-23 NT

  “Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death. You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.…

• Matthew 10:28 NT

  Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.