Persecution

| Martyrs | Persecutors | Wicked Devices | Suffering |

Martyrs

• Abel / Cain Rose Up Against Abel His Brother, and Slew Him

• Antipas / My Faithful Martyr, Who Was Slain

• A Prophet / The King Said Unto Him, Have We Made You the King's Counsel? Cease! Why Should You Be Killed?

• Daniel / Cast Into the Den of Lions

• Elijah / Lord, They Have Killed Thy Prophets, and Digged Down Thine Altars; and I Am Left Alone, and They Seek My Life

• Hanani / Asa Was Wroth With the Seer, and Put Him in a Prison House

• James / Herod the King Stretched Forth His Hands to Vex Certain of the Church / He Killed James the Brother of John With the Sword

• Jeremiah / The Priests and the Prophets and All the People Took Him, Saying, Thou Shalt Surely Die

• John the Baptist / Herod Had Laid Hold on John, and Bound Him, and Put Him in Prison / And He Sent, and Beheaded John

• Lazarus / The Chief Priests Consulted That They Might Put Lazarus Also to Death

• Micaiah / I Hate Him; for He Doth Not Prophesy Good Concerning Me, but Evil

• My Two Witnesses / The Beast That Ascendeth Out of the Bottomless Pit Shall Make War Against Them, and Shall Overcome Them, and Kill Them

• Paul and His Company / In Distresses, in Stripes, in Imprisonments

• Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego / Cast Into the Midst of the Burning Fiery Furnace

• So Great a Cloud of Witnesses / They Were Stoned, They Were Sawn Asunder, Were Tempted, Were Slain With the Sword

• Stephen / They Cried Out With a Loud Voice, and Stopped Their Ears, and Ran Upon Him With One Accord, and Cast Him Out of the City, and Stoned Him

• The Martyrs of Jesus / Them That Were Slain for the Word of God, and for the Witness They Had Borne

• Urijah / They Fetched Forth Urijah Out of Egypt, and Brought Him Unto Jehoiakim the King; Who Slew Him With the Sword

• Zechariah / Whom Ye Slew Between the Temple and the Altar

Persecutors

• A Man's Foes Shall Be They of His Own Household

• Despisers of Those That Are Good

• Haters of God

• It Was Not an Enemy That Reproached Me / I Went With Them to the House of God

• The Kisses of an Enemy Are Deceitful

• They Mocked the Messengers of God, and Despised His Words, and Misused His Prophets

• When He Speaketh Fair, Believe Him Not: For There Are Seven Abominations in His Heart

Wicked Devices

• Bribery

• Cruel Mockings

• Spitting

• These Men Are Full of New Wine

• They Conspired Against Him, and Stoned Him With Stones

• They Have Sharpened Their Tongues

• They Mock Me in Song

• They Shall Put You Out of the Synagogues

• Thou Art Beside Thyself / Thou Art Mad

• Unrighteous Decrees

• We Have Found This Man a Pestilent Fellow, and a Mover of Sedition

Suffering

• All Men Forsook Me / No Man Cared for My Soul

• All That Will Live Godly in Christ Jesus Shall Suffer Persecution

• Blessed Are Ye, When Men Shall Hate You / Rejoice Ye in That Day, and Leap for Joy

• Crushed

• Depression

• Endure Grief, Suffering Wrongfully / Fret Not Thyself in Any Wise to Do Evil

• For Thy Sake We Are Killed All the Day Long

• I Am Become a Stranger Unto My Brethren

• I Shall Answer for Myself This Day Before Thee Concerning All the Things Whereof I Am Accused

• The Brokenhearted

• The Fear of Man

• The Fellowship of His Sufferings

• We Are Fools for Christ's Sake

• Ye Shall Be Hated of All Men for My Name's Sake

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