Persecute

Then the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your enemies who hate you and persecute you.

Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’

For they persecute the one You struck and recount the pain of those You wounded.

Rulers persecute me without cause, but my heart fears only Your word.

Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next. Truly I tell you, you will not reach all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town.

Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and others they will persecute.’

But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. On account of My name they will deliver you to the synagogues and prisons, and they will bring you before kings and governors.

Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews began to persecute Him.

Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.

Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—

He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?”

I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?’

I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.

We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me in Hebrew, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

Bless those who persecute you. Bless and do not curse.