TOPICAL BIBLE
Persecution
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Acts 12:6And when Herod was about to bring him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and guards before the door kept the prison.Acts 12:7And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shined in the cell: and he smote Peter on the side, and awoke him, saying, Rise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.Acts 12:8And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And he did so. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me.Acts 12:9And he went out, and followed; and he knew not that it was true which was done by the angel, but thought he saw a vision.Acts 12:10And when they were past the first and the second guard, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth into the city; which opened to them of its own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and straightway the angel departed from him.Acts 12:11And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a truth, that the Lord hath sent forth his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.Acts 12:12And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together and were praying.Acts 12:13And when he knocked at the door of the gate, a maid came to answer, named Rhoda.Acts 12:14And when she knew Peter’s voice, she opened not the gate for joy, but ran in, and told that Peter stood before the gate.Acts 12:15And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she confidently affirmed that it was even so. And they said, It is his angel.Acts 12:16But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed.Acts 12:17But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him forth out of the prison. And he said, Tell these things unto James, and to the brethren. And he departed, and went to another place.Acts 12:18Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers, what was become of Peter.Acts 12:19And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judæa to Cæsarea, and tarried there.Acts 13:27For they that dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.Acts 13:28And though they found no cause of death in him, yet asked they of Pilate that he should be slain.Acts 13:29And when they had fulfilled all things that were written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.Acts 28:22But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.Romans 8:17and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him.Romans 8:35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?Romans 8:36Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.Romans 8:37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.1 Corinthians 4:9For, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men.1 Corinthians 4:10We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor.1 Corinthians 4:11Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;1 Corinthians 4:12and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;1 Corinthians 4:13being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.1 Corinthians 13:3And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.2 Corinthians 4:8we are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair;2 Corinthians 4:9pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed;2 Corinthians 4:10always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.2 Corinthians 4:11For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.2 Corinthians 4:12So then death worketh in us, but life in you.2 Corinthians 6:4but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,2 Corinthians 6:5in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;2 Corinthians 6:8by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;2 Corinthians 6:9as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;2 Corinthians 6:10as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.2 Corinthians 11:23Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.2 Corinthians 11:24Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.2 Corinthians 11:25Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep;2 Corinthians 11:26in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my countrymen, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;2 Corinthians 11:27in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.2 Corinthians 12:10Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.Galatians 1:13For ye have heard of my manner of life in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and made havoc of it:Galatians 4:29But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, so also it is now.Galatians 6:12As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.Galatians 6:17Henceforth let no man trouble me; for I bear branded on my body the marks of Jesus.Philippians 1:12Now I would have you know, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the progress of the gospel;Philippians 1:13so that my bonds became manifest in Christ throughout the whole praetorian guard, and to all the rest;Philippians 1:14and that most of the brethren in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.Philippians 1:28and in nothing affrighted by the adversaries: which is for them an evident token of perdition, but of your salvation, and that from God;Philippians 1:29because to you it hath been granted in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer in his behalf:Colossians 1:24Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church;1 Thessalonians 1:6And ye became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit;1 Thessalonians 2:2but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we waxed bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God in much conflict.1 Thessalonians 2:14For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judæa in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews;1 Thessalonians 2:15who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and please not God, and are contrary to all men;2 Thessalonians 1:4so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure;2 Timothy 1:8Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but suffer hardship with the gospel according to the power of God;