Quotes about Persecution
So then, I too was convinced that I ought to do all I could to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
- Acts 26:9
I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.
- Acts 26:11
We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me in Hebrew, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’
- Acts 26:14
‘Who are You, Lord?’ I asked. ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,’ the Lord replied.
- Acts 26:15
For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and tried to kill me.
- Acts 26:21
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
- Romans 8:35
Bless those who persecute you. Bless and do not curse.
- Romans 12:14
For I am the least of the apostles and am unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
- 1 Corinthians 15:9
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.
- Galatians 1:13
They only heard the account: “The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”
- Galatians 1:23
At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now.
- Galatians 4:29
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.
- Galatians 5:11