Nave’s Topical Bible
Persecution
195 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- OF JESUS
Genesis 3:15; Psalms 2:1-5; Psalms 22:1-2,6-8,11-21; Psalms 69:1-21; Psalms 109:25; Isaiah 49:7; Isaiah 50:6; Isaiah 52:14; Isaiah 53:2-5,7-10; Micah 5:1; Matthew 2:13; Matthew 11:19; Matthew 12:14,24; Matthew 16:1; Matthew 20:22; Matthew 22:15; Matthew 26:3-4,14-16,59,67; Matthew 27:25-30,39-44; Mark 3:6,21-22; Mark 11:18; Mark 12:13; Mark 14:1,48,65; Mark 15:14,34; Mark 16:17; Luke 4:28-29; Luke 6:11; Luke 7:34; Luke 11:15,53-54; Luke 12:50; Luke 13:31; Luke 19:14,47; Luke 20:20; Luke 22:2-5,52-53,63-65; Luke 23:11,23; John 5:16; John 7:1,7,19-20,30,32; John 8:37,40,48,52,59; John 10:20,31,39; John 11:57; John 14:30; John 15:18,20-21,24-25; John 18:22-23,29-30; John 19:6,15; Acts 2:23; Acts 3:13-15; Acts 4:27; Acts 7:52; Acts 13:27-29; Hebrews 12:2-3; 1 Peter 4:1
- OF THE RIGHTEOUS
Genesis 49:23; Job 1:9; Job 2:4-5; Job 12:4-5; Psalms 11:2; Psalms 37:32; Psalms 38:20; Psalms 42:3,10; Psalms 44:15-18,22; Psalms 56:5; Psalms 69:10,12; Psalms 74:7-8; Psalms 94:5; Psalms 119:51,61,69,78,85-87,95,110,157,161; Proverbs 29:10,27; Isaiah 26:20; Isaiah 29:20-21; Isaiah 51:12-13; Isaiah 59:15; Jeremiah 2:30; Jeremiah 11:19; Jeremiah 15:10; Jeremiah 18:18; Jeremiah 20:7-8; Jeremiah 26:11-14; Jeremiah 50:7; Amos 5:10; Habakkuk 1:13; Matthew 5:10-12,44; Matthew 10:16-18,21-23,28; Matthew 20:22-23; Matthew 23:34-35; Matthew 24:8-10; Mark 9:42; Mark 13:9,11-13; Luke 6:22-23,26; Luke 17:33; Luke 21:12-19; John 12:42; John 15:18-19; John 16:1-2; John 17:14; Acts 4:16-20; Acts 5:29,40-42; Acts 7:52; Acts 8:4; Acts 28:22; Romans 8:17,35-37; 1 Corinthians 4:9-13; 1 Corinthians 13:3; 2 Corinthians 4:8-12; 2 Corinthians 6:4-5,8-10; 2 Corinthians 11:23-27; 2 Corinthians 12:10; Galatians 4:29; Galatians 6:12,17; Philippians 1:12-14,28-29; Colossians 1:24; 1 Thessalonians 1:6; 1 Thessalonians 2:2,14-15; 2 Thessalonians 1:4; 2 Timothy 1:8,12; 2 Timothy 2:9-12; 2 Timothy 3:2-3,12; 2 Timothy 4:16-17; Hebrews 10:32-34; Hebrews 11:25-27,33-38; Hebrews 12:3-4; Hebrews 13:13; James 2:6; James 5:6,10; 1 Peter 3:14,16-17; 1 Peter 4:3-4,12-14,16,19; 1 John 3:1,13; Revelation 2:3,10,13; Revelation 6:9-11; Revelation 7:13-17; Revelation 12:11; Revelation 17:6; Revelation 20:4
See PAUL
- A mode of divine chastisement
- Diffuses the gospel
- Deliverance from
- INSTANCES OF
- Of Abel
- Of Lot
- Of Moses
- Of David
- Of prophets martyred by Jezebel
- Of Gideon
- Of Elijah
- Of Micaiah
- Of Elisha
- Of Hanani
- Of Zachariah
- Of Job
- Of Jeremiah
Jeremiah 15:10,15; Jeremiah 17:15-18; Jeremiah 18:18-23; Jeremiah 26; Jeremiah 32:2; Jeremiah 33:1; Jeremiah 36:26; Jeremiah 37; Jeremiah 38:1-6
- Of Urijah
- Of prophets
- Of the three Hebrew young men (Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego) of the captivity
- Of Daniel
- Of the Jews
- Of John the Baptist
- Of James
- Of Simon
- Of the disciples
- Of Lazarus
- Of the apostles
- Of Stephen
- Of the ekklesia (body of Christ)
- Of Timothy
- Of John
- Of Antipas
- Of the congregation at Smyrna
Bible verses about “Persecution”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Genesis 3:15And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
- Psalms 2:1Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
- Psalms 2:2The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,
- Psalms 2:3Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
- Psalms 2:4He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
- Psalms 2:5Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
- Psalms 22:1My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
- Psalms 22:2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
- Psalms 22:6But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
- Psalms 22:7All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
- Psalms 22:8He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
- Psalms 22:11Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
- Psalms 22:12Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
- Psalms 22:13They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
- Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
- Psalms 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
- Psalms 22:16For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
- Psalms 22:17I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
- Psalms 22:18They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
- Psalms 22:19But be not thou far from me, O Lord: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
- Psalms 22:20Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
- Psalms 22:21Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.
- Psalms 69:1Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
- Psalms 69:2I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
- Psalms 69:3I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
- Psalms 69:4They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
- Psalms 69:5O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
- Psalms 69:6Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
- Psalms 69:7Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
- Psalms 69:8I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
- Psalms 69:9For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
- Psalms 69:10When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
- Psalms 69:11I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
- Psalms 69:12They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
- Psalms 69:13But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
- Psalms 69:14Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
- Psalms 69:15Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
- Psalms 69:16Hear me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
- Psalms 69:17And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.
- Psalms 69:18Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.