Quotes About Persecution

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and tried to kill me.

But when the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, even though I have no charge to bring against my nation.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

“Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well”?

Bless those who persecute you. Bless and do not curse.

To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.

We work hard with our own hands. When we are vilified, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;

when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.

For I am the least of the apostles and am unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas secured the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me.

For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how severely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.

They only heard the account: “The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”

At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now.

Now, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.

As for those who are agitating you, I wish they would proceed to emasculate themselves!

Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. They only do this to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ.

as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,

Indeed, when we were with you, we kept warning you that we would suffer persecution; and as you know, it has come to pass.

For this reason, brothers, in all our distress and persecution, we have been reassured about you, because of your faith.

my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

Indeed, all who desire to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

Sometimes you were publicly exposed to ridicule and persecution; at other times you were partners with those who were so treated.

They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.