25 Bible Verses About Being Persecuted (ESV)

12 Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

22 and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

10 “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

10 “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

11 “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. 12 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

13 And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

11 “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

33 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.

18 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

22 “Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man!

9 then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,

20 Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

12 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. 13 But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. 14 If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.

12   if we endure, we will also reign with him;
  if we deny him, he also will deny us;

4   Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
    I will fear no evil,
  for you are with me;
    your rod and your staff,
    they comfort me.

29 Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, 30 who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.

18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

16 Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.

8 Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

29 For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake,

13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”