14 Bible Verses about Persecution Of The Apostle Paul

and speaking boldly in the name of the Lord; and he spoke and disputed with the Hellenists; and they undertook to kill him;

But the Jews excited the pious and honorable women, and the first men of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out from their limits.

And when a design was formed by the gentiles and Jews with their rulers to treat them injuriously, and stone them,

But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the multitudes, and having stoned Paul, they dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

And the multitude came together against them, and the prefects tearing off their clothes gave orders to beat them with rods,

And when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose with one consent against Paul and brought him to the tribunal,

for the multitude of the people followed, crying, Take him away.

And they heard him to this word, and lifted up their voice saying, Take away such a man from the earth; it is not fit that he should live.

And there being a great dissension, the chiliarch, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the troops to come down and take him by force from the midst of them, and conduct him to the fortress.

and labor, working with our hands; being reviled we bless, being persecuted we endure,

being persecuted but not deserted, being cast down but not destroyed,

five times I received of the Jews forty [stripes] lacking one,

in which I suffer even to chains as an evil doer; but the word of God is not bound.

persecutions, sufferings, which befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; the great persecutions which I suffered, and the Lord delivered me from all.