My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

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

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

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.

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News, but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.”

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.