Acts 12:1

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

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.

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

they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

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.

Nevertheless even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

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.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.

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.

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.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

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

“For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed,

Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),

I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.

“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.

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.

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

He said, “Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.” ’ ”

He warned them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”

When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”

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

“Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But I came to this time for this cause.

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;

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

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.

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

Stay with me. Don’t be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. For you will be safe with me.”

He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.

that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.

if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments;

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

who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.

Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll; but he would not listen to them.

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

Then he came to his disciples, and said to them, “Sleep on now, and take your rest. Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.

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

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.

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

Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him.

Neither has Herod, for I sent you to him, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him.

Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.

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

They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.

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.

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

I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;

But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”

Joses, who by the apostles was also called Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,

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

There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

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

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.

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.

Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.

Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.”

The king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn’t disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king wouldn’t put out their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.

So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel.

The man said to Joab, “Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn’t stretch out my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Beware that no one touch the young man Absalom.’

Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,

then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”

But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.

But you, Yahweh, are on high forever more.

They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

I say, “Keep the king’s command!” because of the oath to God.

but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.

At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus,

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;

So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”

James the son of Zebedee; and John, the brother of James, (whom he called Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder);

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

while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.”

He said, “Who are you, Lord?” The Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.

“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.