Persecution

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• Matthew 20:23 NT

  He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

• Matthew 23:34 NT

  Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

• Matthew 23:35 NT

  that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.

• Matthew 24:8-10 NT

  But all these things are the beginning of birth pains. Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake. Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and…

• Mark 9:42 NT

  Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.

• Mark 13:9 NT

  But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.

• Mark 13:11-13 NT

  When they lead you away and deliver you up, don’t be anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit. “Brother will deliver up brother…

• Luke 6:22 NT

  Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

• Luke 6:23 NT

  Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

• Luke 6:26 NT

  Woe, when men speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.

• Luke 17:33 NT

  Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.

• Luke 21:12-19 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. It will turn out as a testimony for you. Settle…

• John 12:42 NT

  Nevertheless even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,

• John 15:19 NT

  If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

• John 16:1 NT

  “I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.

• John 16:2 NT

  They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

• John 17:14 NT

  I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

• Acts 4:16-20 NT

  saying, “What shall we do to these men? Because indeed a notable miracle has been done through them, as can be plainly seen by all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we can’t deny it. But so that this spreads no further among the people, let’s…

• Acts 5:29 NT

  But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

• Acts 5:40-42 NT

  They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer…

• Acts 8:4 NT

  Therefore those who were scattered abroad went around preaching the word.

• Acts 28:22 NT

  But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.”

• Romans 8:17 NT

  and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

• Romans 8:35-37 NT

  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the…