TOPICAL BIBLE
Persecution
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Acts 12:6and when Herod was about to bring him forth, the same night was Peter sleeping between two soldiers, having been bound with two chains, guards also before the door were keeping the prison,Acts 12:7and lo, a messenger of the Lord stood by, and a light shone in the buildings, and having smitten Peter on the side, he raised him up, saying, ‘Rise in haste,’ and his chains fell from off his hands.Acts 12:8The messenger also said to him, ‘Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals;’ and he did so; and he saith to him, ‘Put thy garment round and be following me;’Acts 12:9and having gone forth, he was following him, and he knew not that it is true that which is done through the messenger, and was thinking he saw a vision,Acts 12:10and having passed through a first ward, and a second, they came unto the iron gate that is leading to the city, which of its own accord did open to them, and having gone forth, they went on through one street, and immediately the messenger departed from him.Acts 12:11And Peter having come to himself, said, ‘Now I have known of a truth that the Lord did sent forth His messenger, and did deliver me out of the hand of Herod, and all the expectation of the people of the Jews;’Acts 12:12also, having considered, he came unto the house of Mary, the mother of John, who is surnamed Mark, where there were many thronged together and praying.Acts 12:13And Peter having knocked at the door of the porch, there came a damsel to hearken, by name Rhoda,Acts 12:14and having known the voice of Peter, from the joy she did not open the porch, but having run in, told of the standing of Peter before the porch,Acts 12:15and they said unto her, ‘Thou art mad;’ and she was confidently affirming it to be so, and they said, ‘It is his messenger;’Acts 12:16and Peter was continuing knocking, and having opened, they saw him, and were astonished,Acts 12:17and having beckoned to them with the hand to be silent, he declared to them how the Lord brought him out of the prison, and he said, ‘Declare to James and to the brethren these things;’ and having gone forth, he went on to another place.Acts 12:18And day having come, there was not a little stir among the soldiers what then was become of Peter,Acts 12:19and Herod having sought for him, and not having found, having examined the guards, did command them to be led away to punishment, and having gone down from Judea to Caesarea, he was abiding there.Acts 13:27for those dwelling in Jerusalem, and their chiefs, this one not having known, also the voices of the prophets, which every sabbath are being read—having judged him—did fulfil,Acts 13:28and no cause of death having found, they did ask of Pilate that he should be slain,Acts 13:29and when they did complete all the things written about him, having taken him down from the tree, they laid him in a tomb;Acts 28:22and we think it good from thee to hear what thou dost think, for, indeed, concerning this sect it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against;’Romans 8:17and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ—if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.Romans 8:35Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?Romans 8:36(according as it hath been written—‘For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,’)Romans 8:37but in all these we more than conquer, through him who loved us;1 Corinthians 4:9for I think that God did set forth us the apostles last—as appointed to death, because a spectacle we became to the world, and messengers, and men;1 Corinthians 4:10we are fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we are ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured;1 Corinthians 4:11unto the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and wander about,1 Corinthians 4:12and labour, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;1 Corinthians 4:13being spoken evil of, we entreat; as filth of the world we did become—of all things an offscouring—till now.1 Corinthians 13:3and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.2 Corinthians 4:8on every side being in tribulation, but not straitened; perplexed, but not in despair;2 Corinthians 4:9persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;2 Corinthians 4:10at all times the dying of the Lord Jesus bearing about in the body, that the life also of Jesus in our body may be manifested,2 Corinthians 4:11for always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh,2 Corinthians 4:12so that, the death indeed in us doth work, and the life in you.2 Corinthians 6:4but in everything recommending ourselves as God’s ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,2 Corinthians 6:5in stripes, in imprisonments, in insurrections, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,2 Corinthians 6:8through glory and dishonour, through evil report and good report, as leading astray, and true;2 Corinthians 6:9as unknown, and recognized; as dying, and lo, we live; as chastened, and not put to death;2 Corinthians 6:10as sorrowful, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.2 Corinthians 11:23ministrants of Christ are they?—as beside myself I speak—I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;2 Corinthians 11:24from Jews five times forty stripes save one I did receive;2 Corinthians 11:25thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a night and a day in the deep I have passed;2 Corinthians 11:26journeyings many times, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from kindred, perils from nations, perils in city, perils in wilderness, perils in sea, perils among false brethren;2 Corinthians 11:27in labouriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;2 Corinthians 12:10wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses—for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;Galatians 1:13for ye did hear of my behaviour once in Judaism, that exceedingly I was persecuting the assembly of God, and wasting it,Galatians 4:29but as then he who was born according to the flesh did persecute him according to the spirit, so also now;Galatians 6:12as many as are willing to make a good appearance in the flesh, these constrain you to be circumcised—only that for the cross of the Christ they may not be persecuted,Galatians 6:17Henceforth, let no one give me trouble, for I the scars of the Lord Jesus in my body do bear.Philippians 1:12And I wish you to know, brethren, that the things concerning me, rather to an advancement of the good news have come,Philippians 1:13so that my bonds have become manifest in Christ in the whole praetorium, and to the other places—all,Philippians 1:14and the greater part of the brethren in the Lord, having confidence by my bonds, are more abundantly bold—fearlessly to speak the word.Philippians 1:28and not terrified in anything by those opposing, which to them indeed is a token of destruction, and to you of salvation, and that from God;Philippians 1:29because to you it was granted, on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also on behalf of him to suffer;Colossians 1:24I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,1 Thessalonians 1:6and ye—ye did become imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit,1 Thessalonians 2:2but having both suffered before, and having been injuriously treated (as ye have known) in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the good news of God in much conflict,1 Thessalonians 2:14for ye became imitators, brethren, of the assemblies of God that are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because such things ye suffered, even ye, from your own countrymen, as also they from the Jews,1 Thessalonians 2:15who did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and did persecute us, and God they are not pleasing, and to all men are contrary,2 Thessalonians 1:4so that we ourselves do glory in you in the assemblies of God, for your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye bear;2 Timothy 1:8therefore thou mayest not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but do thou suffer evil along with the good news according to the power of God,