“But the Lord is with me as a mighty terrible one; therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper; their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.” Jer. 20:11
“Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Matt. 5:10-12
“If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.” If ye were of the world, the world would love his own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, the servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.” John 15:18-20
“And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium and Antioch, Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.” Acts 14:21-22
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? For it is written, for thy sake we are killed all the daylong; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.” For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Rom. 8:35-39
“We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; be are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.” 2 Cor. 4:8-11
“Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Chris’s sake; for when I am weak, then am I strong.” 2 Cor. 12:10
“Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.” 2 Tim. 3:12
“Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you as though some strange thing happened unto you: but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when His gory shall be revealed, ye may be lad also with exceeding joy. Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God on this behalf.” 1 Peter 4:12-14, 16