Bible Verses About Persecution

“Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.”

“Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.”

“And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.”

“Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?”

“But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?”

“O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:”

“Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.”

“The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.”

“My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.”

“Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.”

“Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.”

“For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.”

“Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.”

“So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.”

“Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.”

“How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?”

“All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.”

“Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.”

“For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.”

“He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.”

“Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.”

“And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:”

“Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.”

“Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.”

“Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.”

“For thou hast shewn thy mercy to us, and hast shut out from us the enemy that persecuted us.”

“Yea, and without these, they might have been slain with one blast, persecuted by their own deeds, and scattered by the breath of thy power: but thou hast ordered all things in measure, and number, and weight.”

“For the wicked that denied to know thee, were scourged by the strength of thy arm, being persecuted by strange waters, and hail, and rain, and consumed by fire.”

“For at one time the fire was mitigated, that the beasts which were sent against the wicked might not be burnt, but that they might see, and perceive that they were persecuted by the judgment of God.”

“So is he that is persecuted by the Lord, bearing the reward of his iniquity:”