Bible Cross References
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Matthew 10:23
But when they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For truly I say to you, you will not have finished going through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
Psalm 37:12
The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.
Mark 10:30
who shall 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.
Luke 6:22
Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude you, and revile you, and cast out your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man.
Luke 21:12
But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons. You will be brought before kings and rulers on account of My name.
John 15:20
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 keep yours also.
Acts 5:40
And they agreed with him, and when they had summoned the apostles and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
Acts 8:1
Now Saul was consenting to his death. At that time a great persecution arose against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.
Romans 8:35-39
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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall affliction, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
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As it is written: For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
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Yet in all these things we more than conquer through Him who loves us.
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For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,
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nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Corinthians 4:9-13
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For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we became spectacles to all creation, both to angels and to men.
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We are foolish because of Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are distinguished, but we are dishonored.
11
To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and wander homeless.
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And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
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being defamed, we entreat. We have become as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.
2 Corinthians 4:8-12
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We are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
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persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
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always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.
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For we who live are always delivered to death because of Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
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So then death is working in us, but life in you.
2 Corinthians 4:17-12
Philippians 1:28
and not in any way terrified by your adversaries, which is to them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.
2 Timothy 2:12
If we endure, we shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He also will deny us.
2 Timothy 3:11
persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me.
James 1:2-5
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My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,
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knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.
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But let patience have its perfecting work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
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If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
1 Peter 3:13
And who is he who will harm you if you become imitators of what is good?
1 Peter 3:14
But even if you should suffer because of righteousness, you are blessed. And do not be afraid of their terror, nor be troubled.
1 Peter 4:12-16
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Beloved, do not be astonished at the fiery trial which is to try you, as though something unheard of was happening to you;
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but rejoice in so far as you partake of Christ's sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also rejoice with exceeding joy.
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If you are reproached for the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. According to them He is blasphemed, but according to you He is glorified.
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But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or as a meddler in other people's matters.
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Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this regard.
1 John 3:12
not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother's righteous.
Revelation 2:10
Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have affliction ten days. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.
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Matthew 5:3
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.
2 Thessalonians 1:4-7
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so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and afflictions that you endure,
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which is manifest evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer;
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since it is righteous judgment with God to repay with affliction those who trouble you,
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and to give you who are afflicted rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from Heaven with His mighty angels,
James 1:12
Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.