446 Bible Verses about Persecution
Want to know what the Bible says about Persecution? Here are 446 Bible verses about Persecution from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.
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1 Corinthians 13:3 NIV
If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
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John 5:16 NIV
So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him.
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Romans 5:3-4 NIV
3 Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope.
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Acts 5:29 NIV
Peter and the other apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than human beings!
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Hebrews 12:4 NIV
In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
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Matthew 23:35 NIV
And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
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Matthew 10:17 NIV
Be on your guard; you will be handed over to the local councils and be flogged in the synagogues.
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2 Corinthians 4:9 NIV
persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
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Galatians 1:13 NIV
For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.
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