1 Samuel 22:23

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

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

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

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I told to you that you would never see it again. There you will offer yourselves to your enemies for male and female slaves, and nobody will buy you.

Anathoth with its pasture lands, and Almon with its pasture lands: four cities.

To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the Lord Yahweh’s ark before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted.”

Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.

For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?”

But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to me; for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted.

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.

“Those who are wise among the people will instruct many; yet they will fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder, many days.

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

“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.

This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.

Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither is one who is sent greater than he who sent him.

But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,

But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

This thing isn’t good that you have done. As Yahweh lives, you are worthy to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, Yahweh’s anointed. Now see where the king’s spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head.”

In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together, and to defend their life, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to plunder their possessions,

My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin.

and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these local governors might give account to them, and that the king should suffer no loss.

Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”

Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.

The Son of Man indeed goes, as it has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!”

Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?

Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, “Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none.”

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so we are in this world.

“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.

Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you will never fail to be slaves, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.”

Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me as the king over them.

For he has gone down today, and has slain cattle, fatlings, and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king’s sons, the captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest. Behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and saying, ‘Long live king Adonijah!’

The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army; and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.

Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”

Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him.

Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! Listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!

I will set up shepherds over them, who will feed them. They will no longer be afraid or dismayed, neither will any be lacking,” says Yahweh.

and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.

Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals;

Now all this has happened that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,

“Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”

A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,

But you are those who have continued with me in my trials.

But Jesus answered, “Let me at least do this”—and he touched his ear, and healed him.

For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.”

Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.

Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.

Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.

that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, “Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

Again, “I will put my trust in him.” Again, “Behold, here I am with the children whom God has given me.”

“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.