35 Bible Verses about Persecution, Forms Of
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This aroused the high priest and all his supporters, the party of the Sadducees, and filled them with jealousy, and they had the apostles arrested and put in the common jail.
For he knew that they had handed him over to him out of envy.
But when the Jews saw the crowd, they were very jealous, and they contradicted what Paul said and abused him.
And the high priests and the scribes were casting about for a way to put him to death, for they were afraid of the people.
When King Herod heard of this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
Just at that time a great commotion arose about the Way. A silversmith named Demetrius was making large profits for his workmen by the manufacture of silver shrines of Artemis. He got the workmen in that and similar trades together, and said to them, "Men, you know that this business is the source of our prosperity,read more.
and you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but almost all over Asia, this man Paul has persuaded and drawn away numbers of people, telling them that gods made by human hands are not gods at all. There is danger, therefore, not only that this business of ours will be discredited, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be neglected and the magnificence of her whom all Asia and the world worship will be a thing of the past!"
We must not be like Cain who was a child of the evil one, and butchered his brother. And why did he butcher him? Because his own actions were wicked and his brother's upright.
It is impossible for the world to hate you, but it does hate me for testifying that its ways are wrong.
"Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and falsely say everything bad of you, on my account.
and there was a great deal of muttering about him among the crowds, some saying that he was a good man, and others that he was not, but was imposing on the people.
So they instigated people to say, "We have heard him use abusive language about Moses and about God."
They have been told that you teach all Jews who live among the heathen to turn away from Moses, and that you tell them not to circumcise their children nor to observe the old customs.
For we have found this man a pest and a disturber of the peace among Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the Nazarene sect,
His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already made an agreement that if anyone acknowledged Jesus as the Christ, he should be excluded from the synagogues.
But to keep it from spreading farther among the people, let us warn them to say nothing to anyone else at all about this person."
when they slander us, we try to conciliate them. We have come to be like the scum of the earth, the dregs of the world, and we are so now.
Let us, therefore, go out to him, outside the camp, sharing the contempt that he endured,
I know of your distress and poverty??hough you are rich!?? know how you are slandered by those who claim to be Jews when they are not so, but only a synagogue of Satan!
You will be hated by everybody on my account, but the man who holds out to the very end will be saved.
Yet for all that, even among the leading men, many came to believe in him, but on account of the Pharisees they would not acknowledge it, for fear of being excluded from the synagogues,
They will exclude you from their synagogues; why, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is doing religious service to God.
Who can separate us from Christ's love? Can trouble or misfortune or persecution or hunger or destitution or danger or the sword?
But be on your guard against men, for they will give you up to their courts, and have you flogged in their synagogues,
But you must be on your guard; they will hand you over to courts and you will be taken into synagogues and beaten, and you will be brought before governors and kings on my account, to testify to them.
I tell you, when you were young, you used to put on your own girdle and go where you pleased, but when you grow old, you will stretch our your hands and someone else will put a girdle on you and take you where you have no wish to go" He said this to show the kind of death by which Peter was to honor God; and after he had said it he said to Peter, "Follow me!"
They were convinced by him, and they called the apostles in and had them flogged, and warned them not to speak about the name of Jesus, and then let them go.
But Paul said to them, "They had us beaten in public without giving us a trial, and put us in jail, although we are Roman citizens! And now are they going to dismiss us secretly? By no means! Have them come here themselves and take us out!"
I have been beaten three times by the Romans, I have been stoned once, I have been shipwrecked three times, a night and a day I have been adrift at sea;
Let nobody interfere with me after this, for I bear on my body the scars that mark me as a slave of Jesus.
Still others had to endure taunts and blows, and even fetters and prison. They were stoned to death, they were tortured to death, they were sawed in two, they were killed with the sword. Clothed in the skins of sheep or goats, they were driven from place to place, destitute, persecuted, misused??38 men of whom the world was not worthy wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and holes in the ground. Yet though they all gained God's approval by their faith, they none of them received what he had promised,
though I once used to abuse, persecute, and insult him. But he had mercy on me, because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief,
About that time King Herod laid violent hands upon some who belonged to the church.
they only heard people say, "The man who once persecuted us is now preaching the good news of the faith he tried to destroy,"
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