TOPICAL BIBLE
Persecution
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Acts 12:6The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.Acts 12:7And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, “Stand up quickly!” His chains fell off from his hands.Acts 12:8The angel said to him, “Get dressed and put on your sandals.” He did so. He said to him, “Put on your cloak, and follow me.”Acts 12:9And he went out and followed him. He didn’t know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision.Acts 12:10When they were past the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went out, and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.Acts 12:11When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”Acts 12:12Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John whose surname was Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.Acts 12:13When Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a maid named Rhoda came to answer.Acts 12:14When she recognized Peter’s voice, she didn’t open the gate for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter was standing in front of the gate.Acts 12:15They said to her, “You are crazy!” But she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.”Acts 12:16But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed.Acts 12:17But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, “Tell these things to James, and to the brothers.” Then he departed, and went to another place.Acts 12:18Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter.Acts 12:19When Herod had sought for him, and didn’t find him, he examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.Acts 13:27For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.Acts 13:28Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.Acts 13:29When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.Acts 28:22But we desire to hear from you what you think. 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 indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.Romans 8:35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?Romans 8:36Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”Romans 8:37No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.1 Corinthians 4:9For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.1 Corinthians 4:10We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.1 Corinthians 4:11Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.1 Corinthians 4:12We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.1 Corinthians 4:13Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.1 Corinthians 13:3If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.2 Corinthians 4:8We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;2 Corinthians 4:9pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;2 Corinthians 4:10always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.2 Corinthians 4:11For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.2 Corinthians 4:12So then death works in us, but life in you.2 Corinthians 6:4but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,2 Corinthians 6:5in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, 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 punished, 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 servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.2 Corinthians 11:24Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one.2 Corinthians 11:25Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.2 Corinthians 11:26I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;2 Corinthians 11:27in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.2 Corinthians 12:10Therefore 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 you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it.Galatians 4:29But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.Galatians 6:12As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.Galatians 6:17From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body.Philippians 1:12Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News;Philippians 1:13so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ;Philippians 1:14and that most of the brothers 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 frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.Philippians 1:29Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on 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 assembly;1 Thessalonians 1:6You 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 you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.1 Thessalonians 2:14For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews;1 Thessalonians 2:15who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn’t please God, and are contrary to all men;2 Thessalonians 1:4so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.2 Timothy 1:8Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,