TOPICAL BIBLE
Persecution
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2 Timothy 1:12For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.2 Timothy 2:9in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.2 Timothy 2:10Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.2 Timothy 2:11This saying is faithful: “For if we died with him, we will also live with him.2 Timothy 2:12If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.2 Timothy 3:2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,2 Timothy 3:3without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,2 Timothy 3:12Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.2 Timothy 4:16At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.2 Timothy 4:17But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.Hebrews 10:32But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;Hebrews 10:33partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.Hebrews 10:34For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.Hebrews 11:25choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;Hebrews 11:26accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.Hebrews 11:27By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.Hebrews 11:33who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,Hebrews 11:34quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.Hebrews 11:35Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.Hebrews 11:36Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.Hebrews 11:37They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treatedHebrews 11:38(of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.Hebrews 12:2looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.Hebrews 12:3For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.Hebrews 12:4You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin;Hebrews 13:13Let us therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.Hebrews 13:23Know that our brother Timothy has been freed, with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.James 2:6But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?James 5:6You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.James 5:10Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.1 Peter 3:14But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”1 Peter 3:16having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.1 Peter 3:17For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.1 Peter 4:1Forasmuch then as Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;1 Peter 4:3For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.1 Peter 4:4They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:1 Peter 4:12Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.1 Peter 4:13But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.1 Peter 4:14If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.1 Peter 4:16But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.1 Peter 4:19Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.1 John 3:1Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.1 John 3:12unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.1 John 3:13Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.Revelation 1:9I John, your brother and partner with you in oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.Revelation 2:3You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.Revelation 2:8“To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: “The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:Revelation 2:9“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.Revelation 2:10Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.Revelation 2:13“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.Revelation 6:9When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.Revelation 6:10They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”Revelation 6:11A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.Revelation 7:13One of the elders answered, saying to me, “These who are arrayed in white robes, who are they, and from where did they come?”Revelation 7:14I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.Revelation 7:15Therefore they are before the throne of God, they serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them.Revelation 7:16They will never be hungry, neither thirsty any more; neither will the sun beat on them, nor any heat;Revelation 7:17for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne shepherds them, and leads them to springs of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”Revelation 12:11They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.Revelation 17:6I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.