Quotes about Persecution
and as soon as he had finished telling all the people everything the LORD had commanded him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people seized him, shouting, “You must surely die!
- Jeremiah 26:8
The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison.
- Jeremiah 37:15
“If I tell you,” Jeremiah replied, “you will surely put me to death. And even if I give you advice, you will not listen to me.”
- Jeremiah 38:15
Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.
- Lamentations 3:52
They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
- Lamentations 3:53
O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me—
- Lamentations 3:61
When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.
- Lamentations 3:63
So the decree went out that the wise men were to be executed, and men went to look for Daniel and his friends to execute them.
- Daniel 2:13
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
- Matthew 5:10
Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.
- Matthew 5:11
Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.
- Matthew 5:12
Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
- Matthew 10:16