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Keywords: AGENCY,CURSE,EVE,JESUS THE CHRIST,JUDGMENTS,MALICE,PERSECUTION,SATAN,SERPENT,WAR,WOMEN
Description: Genesis 3:15
NET Translation: And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; he will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.”
DARBY Translation: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he shall crush thy head, and thou shalt crush his heel.
KJV Translation: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Keywords: FRATRICIDE,HOMICIDE,RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE,JEALOUSY,MALICE,PERSECUTION,TYPES
Description: Genesis 4:8
NET Translation: Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.
DARBY Translation: And Cain spoke to Abel his brother, and it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
KJV Translation: And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Keywords: OBDURACY (HARDNESS),PERSECUTION
Description: Genesis 19:9
NET Translation: “Out of our way!” they cried, “This man came to live here as a foreigner, and now he dares to judge us! We’ll do more harm to you than to them!” They kept pressing in on Lot until they were close enough to break down the door.
DARBY Translation: And they said, Back there! And they said [again], This one came to sojourn, and he must beD164 a judge? Now we will deal worse with thee than with them. And they pressed hard on the man on Lot; and drew near to break the door.
KJV Translation: And they said, Stand back. And they said [again], This one [fellow] came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, [even] Lot, and came near to break the door.
Keywords: ARCHERY,PERSECUTION
Description: Genesis 49:23
NET Translation: The archers will attack him, they will shoot at him and oppose him.
DARBY Translation: The archers have provoked him, And shot at, and hated him;
KJV Translation: The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot [at him], and hated him:
Keywords: FUGITIVES,JETHRO,MOSES,PERSECUTION
Description: Exodus 2:15
NET Translation: When Pharaoh heard about this event, he sought to kill Moses. So Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he settled by a certain well.
DARBY Translation: And Pharaoh heard of this matter, and sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from before Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian. And he sat by the well.
KJV Translation: Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,EVIL FOR GOOD,PERSECUTION,PRAYER
Description: Exodus 17:4
NET Translation: Then Moses cried out to the Lord, “What will I do with this people?—a little more and they will stone me!”
DARBY Translation: And Moses cried to Jehovah, saying, What shall I do with this people? Yet a little, and they will stone me!
KJV Translation: And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
Keywords: GROVES,ICONOCLASM,PERSECUTION
Description: Judges 6:28
NET Translation: When the men of the city got up the next morning, they saw the Baal altar pulled down, the nearby Asherah pole cut down, and the second bull sacrificed on the newly built altar.
DARBY Translation: And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered up upon the altar that was built.
KJV Translation: And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that [was] by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar [that was] built.
Keywords: CAVE,JEZEBEL,KING,LOVE,MARTYRDOM,OBADIAH,PERSECUTION,REVERENCE,WOMEN
Description: 1 Kings 18:4
NET Translation: When Jezebel was killing the Lord’s prophets, Obadiah took 100 prophets and hid them in two caves in two groups of fifty. He also brought them food and water.)
DARBY Translation: and it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Jehovah, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and maintained them with bread and water);
KJV Translation: For it was [so], when JezebelK1933cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
Keywords: EXTRADITION,PERSECUTION
Description: 1 Kings 18:10
NET Translation: As certainly as the Lord your God lives, my master has sent to every nation and kingdom in an effort to find you. When they say, ‘He’s not here,’ he makes them swear an oath that they could not find you.
DARBY Translation: As Jehovah thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom whither my lord has not sent to seek thee; and when they said, He is not [here], he took an oath of the kingdom or nation that they found thee not.
KJV Translation: [As] the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, [He is] not [there]; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.
Keywords: GOD,PERSECUTION,ELIJAH,JEZEBEL,KING,LIFE,MALICE,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,MIRACLES
Description: 1 Kings 19:1
NET Translation: Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, including a detailed account of how he killed all the prophets with the sword.
DARBY Translation: And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and in detail how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
KJV Translation: And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.
Verse Intro: Elijah Flees from Jezebel
Keywords: AMON,JOASH,PERSECUTION
Description: 1 Kings 22:26
NET Translation: Then the king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the city official and Joash the king’s son.
DARBY Translation: And the king of Israel said, Take Micah and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
KJV Translation: And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
Keywords: ARMIES,CAPTAIN,FIRE,PERSECUTION
Description: 2 Kings 1:9
NET Translation: The king sent a captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. The captain went up to him while he was sitting on the top of a hill. He told him, “Prophet, the king says, ‘Come down!’”
DARBY Translation: And he sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him, and behold, he sat on the top of the mount. And he spoke to him: Man of God, the king says, Come down!
KJV Translation: Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down.
Keywords: BALDNESS,BETH-EL,CHILDREN,DERISION,ELISHA,INFIDELITY,MOCKING,PERSECUTION,SCOFFING
Description: 2 Kings 2:23
NET Translation: He went up from there to Bethel. As he was traveling up the road, some young boys came out of the city and made fun of him, saying, “Go on up, baldy! Go on up, baldy!”
DARBY Translation: And he went upD2221 from thence to Bethel, and as he went up by the way, there came forth little boys out of the city, and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, bald head; go up, bald head!
KJV Translation: And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
Keywords: ELISHA,MALICE,OATH,PERSECUTION,SHAPHAT
Description: 2 Kings 6:31
NET Translation: Then he said, “May God judge me severely if Elisha son of Shaphat still has his head by the end of the day!”
DARBY Translation: And he said, God do so, and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall remain on him this day!
KJV Translation: Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.
Keywords: ANGER,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,PERSECUTION,REPROOF,RULERS
Description: 2 Chronicles 16:10
NET Translation: Asa was so angry at the prophet, he put him in jail. Asa also oppressed some of the people at that time.
DARBY Translation: And Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in the prisonD2558; for he was enraged with him because of this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.
KJV Translation: Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for [he was] in a rage with him because of this [thing]. And Asa oppressedK2576[some] of the people the same time.
Keywords: PERSECUTION
Description: 2 Chronicles 18:26
NET Translation: Say, ‘This is what the king says: “Put this man in prison. Give him only a little bread and water until I return safely.”’”
DARBY Translation: and ye shall say, Thus says the king: Put this [man] in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.
KJV Translation: And say, Thus saith the king, Put this [fellow] in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.
Keywords: HOMICIDE,PERSECUTION
Description: 2 Chronicles 24:21
NET Translation: They plotted against him and by royal decree stoned him to death in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple.
DARBY Translation: And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the court of the house of Jehovah.
KJV Translation: And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
Keywords: FALSEHOOD,PROPHECIES CONCERNING ISRAEL,MALICE,PERSECUTION,TEMPLE,CHURCH,JESHUA,JOSHUA
Description: Ezra 4:1
NET Translation: When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin learned that the former exiles were building a temple for the Lord God of Israel,
DARBY Translation: And the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building the temple to Jehovah the God of Israel;
KJV Translation: Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivityK2797builded the temple unto the LORD God of Israel;
Verse Intro: Enemies Oppose the Temple Rebuilding
Keywords: INFLUENCE,PROPHECIES CONCERNING ISRAEL,JERUSALEM,MALICE,NEHEMIAH,PERSECUTION,RULERS,SANBALLAT,SCOFFING
Description: Nehemiah 4:1
NET Translation: (3:33) Now when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall he became angry and was quite upset. He derided the Jews,
DARBY Translation: And it came to pass that when Sanballat heard that we built the wall, he was angry and very indignant, and mocked the Jews.
KJV Translation: But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
Verse Intro: Opposition to the Work
Keywords: FALSE ACCUSATION,FALSEHOOD,GOD,MOTIVE,PERSECUTION,SATAN
Description: Job 1:9
NET Translation: Then Satan answered the Lord, “Is it for nothing that Job fears God?
DARBY Translation: And Satan answered Jehovah and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?
KJV Translation: Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?
Keywords: FALSE ACCUSATION,FALSEHOOD,MOTIVE,PERSECUTION
Description: Job 2:4
NET Translation: But Satan answered the Lord, “Skin for skin! Indeed, a man will give up all that he has to save his life.
DARBY Translation: And Satan answered Jehovah and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his lifeD2881;
KJV Translation: And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
Keywords: FALSE ACCUSATION,FALSEHOOD,MOTIVE,PERSECUTION
Description: Job 2:5
NET Translation: But extend your hand and strike his bone and his flesh, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!”
DARBY Translation: but put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, [and see] if he will not curse thee to thy face!
KJV Translation: But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Keywords: PERSECUTION,PRAYER
Description: Job 12:4
NET Translation: I am a laughingstock to my friends, I, who called on God and whom he answered—a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!
DARBY Translation: I am to be one that is a derision to his friend, I who call upon God, and whom he will answer: a derision is the just upright [man].
KJV Translation: I am [as] one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright [man is] laughed to scorn.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,PERSECUTION,PROSPERITY
Description: Job 12:5
NET Translation: For calamity, there is derision (according to the ideas of the fortunate)—a fate for those whose feet slip.
DARBY Translation: He that is ready to stumble with the foot is a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at easeD2944.
KJV Translation: He that is ready to slip with [his] feet [is as] a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
Keywords: FALSEHOOD,PERSECUTION,PHYSICIAN
Description: Job 13:4
NET Translation: But you, however, are inventors of lies; all of you are worthless physicians!
DARBY Translation: For ye indeed are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
KJV Translation: But ye [are] forgers of lies, ye [are] all physicians of no value.
Verse Intro: Job's Friends Fail at Arguing on God's Behalf
Keywords: JOB,PERSECUTION
Description: Job 16:1
NET Translation: Then Job replied:
DARBY Translation: And Job answered and said,
KJV Translation: Then Job answered and said,
Verse Intro: Job Replies to Eliphaz
Keywords: PERSECUTION
Description: Job 17:2
NET Translation: Surely mockery is with me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
DARBY Translation: Are there not mockers around me? and doth [not] mine eye abide in their provocation?
KJV Translation: [Are there] not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continueK3178in their provocation?
Keywords: IRON,JOB,MURMURING,PERSECUTION
Description: Job 19:1
NET Translation: Then Job answered:
DARBY Translation: And Job answered and said,
KJV Translation: Then Job answered and said,
Verse Intro: Job Replies to Bildad
Keywords: JOB,MURMURING,CHILDREN,DOG (SODOMITE?),MOCKING,PERSECUTION,SCOFFING,SHEPHERD
Description: Job 30:1
NET Translation: “But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.
DARBY Translation: But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
KJV Translation: But now [they that are] younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Verse Intro: Summary - Job Since the Suffering
Keywords: DAVID,PSALMS,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION,PROPHECY,QUOTATIONS AND ALLUSIONS,VANITY
Description: Psalms 2:1
NET Translation: Why do the nations rebel? Why are the countries devising plots that will fail?
DARBY Translation: Why are the nations in tumultuous agitation, and [why] do the peoplesD3167 meditate a vain thing?
KJV Translation: Why do the heathen rageK3424, and the people imagineK3425a vain thing?
Verse Intro: Submission to God's Appointed King
Keywords: ARROW,PERSECUTION
Description: Psalms 11:2
NET Translation: For look, the wicked prepare their bows, they put their arrows on the strings, to shoot in the darkness at the morally upright.
DARBY Translation: For behold, the wicked bend the bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may in darkness shoot at the upright in heart.
KJV Translation: For, lo, the wicked bend [their] bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privilyK3471shoot at the upright in heart.
Keywords: AIJELETH SHAHAR,DAVID,PRAISE,PSALMS,AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,JESUS THE CHRIST,LAMA SABACHTHANI,PERSECUTION,PRAYER,PROPHECY,QUOTATIONS AND ALLUSIONS
Description: Psalms 22:1
NET Translation: For the music director, according to the tune “Morning Doe”; a psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I groan in prayer, but help seems far away.
DARBY Translation: To the chief Musician. Upon Aijeleth-ShaharD3314. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou] far from my salvation, from the words of my groaning
KJV Translation: To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou so] far from helping meK3538, [and from] the words of my roaring?
Verse Intro: A Cry of Deliverance from the Surrounding Enemy
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,DOUBTING,PERSECUTION,PRAYER
Description: Psalms 22:2
NET Translation: My God, I cry out during the day, but you do not answer, and during the night my prayers do not let up.
DARBY Translation: My God, I cry by day, and thou answerest not; and by night, and there is no rest for me:
KJV Translation: O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silentK3539.
Keywords: HUMILITY,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION
Description: Psalms 22:6
NET Translation: But I am a worm, not a man; people insult me and despise me.
DARBY Translation: But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and the despised of the people.
KJV Translation: But I [am] a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
Keywords: JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION
Description: Psalms 22:11
NET Translation: Do not remain far away from me, for trouble is near and I have no one to help me.
DARBY Translation: Be not far from me, for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
KJV Translation: Be not far from me; for trouble [is] near; for [there is] none to helpK3544.
Keywords: PERSECUTION,SLANDER
Description: Psalms 31:13
NET Translation: For I hear what so many are saying, the terrifying news that comes from every direction. When they plot together against me, they figure out how they can take my life.
DARBY Translation: For I have heard the slander of many terror on every side when they take counsel together against me: they plot to take away my life.
KJV Translation: For I have heard the slander of many: fear [was] on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,GOD,HOMICIDE,PERSECUTION
Description: Psalms 37:32
NET Translation: The wicked set an ambush for the godly and try to kill them.
DARBY Translation: The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him:
KJV Translation: The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
Keywords: INGRATITUDE,PERSECUTION
Description: Psalms 38:20
NET Translation: They repay me evil for the good I have done; though I have tried to do good to them, they hurl accusations at me.
DARBY Translation: And they that render evil for good are adversariesD3420 unto me; because I pursue what is good.
KJV Translation: They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow [the thing that] good [is].
Keywords: INFIDELITY,PERSECUTION,SCOFFING,TEARS
Description: Psalms 42:3
NET Translation: I cannot eat; I weep day and night. All day long they say to me, “Where is your God?”
DARBY Translation: My tears have been my bread day and night, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?
KJV Translation: My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where [is] thy God?
Keywords: PERSECUTION,SCOFFING
Description: Psalms 42:10
NET Translation: My enemies’ taunts cut me to the bone, as they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
DARBY Translation: As with a crushing in my bones mine adversaries reproach me, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?
KJV Translation: [As] with a swordK3671in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where [is] thy God?
Keywords: PERSECUTION
Description: Psalms 44:15
NET Translation: All day long I feel humiliated and am overwhelmed with shame,
DARBY Translation: All the day my confusion is before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
KJV Translation: My confusion [is] continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
Keywords: MARTYRDOM,PERSECUTION,QUOTATIONS AND ALLUSIONS
Description: Psalms 44:22
NET Translation: Yet because of you we are killed all day long; we are treated like sheep at the slaughtering block.
DARBY Translation: But for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are reckoned as sheep for slaughter.
KJV Translation: Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Keywords: ENEMY,MALICE,PERSECUTION
Description: Psalms 56:5
NET Translation: All day long they cause me trouble; they make a habit of plotting my demise.
DARBY Translation: All the day long they wrestD3545 my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
KJV Translation: Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts [are] against me for evil.
Keywords: DAVID,PSALMS,AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,MUSIC,PERSECUTION,WAITING
Description: Psalms 59:1
NET Translation: For the music director, according to the al-tashcheth style; a prayer of David, written when Saul sent men to surround his house and murder him. Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Protect me from those who attack me.
DARBY Translation: To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God; secure me on high from them that rise up against me
KJV Translation: To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend meK3729from them that rise up against me.
Verse Intro: A Call to Punish the Enemy Who Surrounds - God is One's Strength
Keywords: PERSECUTION
Description: Psalms 59:2
NET Translation: Deliver me from evildoers. Rescue me from violent men.
DARBY Translation: Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from men of blood.
KJV Translation: Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
Keywords: DAVID,PSALMS,SHOSHANNIM,AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,JESUS THE CHRIST,MUSIC,PERSECUTION,WATER
Description: Psalms 69:1
NET Translation: For the music director, according to the tune of “Lilies”; by David. Deliver me, O God, for the water has reached my neck.
DARBY Translation: To the chief Musician. Upon ShoshannimD3631. [A Psalm] of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto [my] soul
KJV Translation: To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, [A Psalm] of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto [my] soul.
Verse Intro: When Overwhelmed God Will Respond with Loving Kindness
Keywords: FASTING,MALICE,PERSECUTION,REPENTANCE
Description: Psalms 69:10
NET Translation: I weep and refrain from eating food, which causes others to insult me.
DARBY Translation: And I wept, my soul was fasting: that also was to my reproach;
KJV Translation: When I wept, [and chastened] my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
Keywords: DRUNKARD,DRUNKENNESS,GATES,PERSECUTION,SPEAKING
Description: Psalms 69:12
NET Translation: Those who sit at the city gate gossip about me; drunkards mock me in their songs.
DARBY Translation: They that sit in the gate talk of me, and [I am] the song of the drunkardsD3632.
KJV Translation: They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I [was] the song of the drunkardsK3793.
Keywords: ARSON,CHURCH,PERSECUTION
Description: Psalms 74:7
NET Translation: They set your sanctuary on fire; they desecrate your dwelling place by knocking it to the ground.
DARBY Translation: They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitationD3675 of thy name to the ground.
KJV Translation: They have cast fire into thy sanctuaryK3824, they have defiled [by casting down] the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
Keywords: ARSON,PERSECUTION
Description: Psalms 74:8
NET Translation: They say to themselves, “We will oppress all of them.” They burn down all the places in the land where people worship God.
DARBY Translation: They said in their heart, Let us destroyD3676 them together: they have burned up all God's places of assembly in the land.
KJV Translation: They said in their hearts, Let us destroyK3825them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
Keywords: PERSECUTION
Description: Psalms 94:5
NET Translation: O Lord, they crush your people; they oppress the nation that belongs to you.
DARBY Translation: They crush thy people, O Jehovah, and afflict thine inheritance;
KJV Translation: They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
Keywords: JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION
Description: Psalms 109:25
NET Translation: I am disdained by them. When they see me, they shake their heads.
DARBY Translation: And I am become a reproach unto them; [when] they look upon me they shake their heads.
KJV Translation: I became also a reproach unto them: [when] they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
Keywords: OBEDIENCE,PERSECUTION
Description: Psalms 119:51
NET Translation: Arrogant people do nothing but scoff at me. Yet I do not turn aside from your law.
DARBY Translation: The proud have derided me beyond measure: I have not declined from thy law.
KJV Translation: The proud have had me greatly in derision: [yet] have I not declined from thy law.
Keywords: PERSECUTION,THEFT AND THIEVES,WORD OF GOD
Description: Psalms 119:61
NET Translation: The ropes of the wicked tighten around me, but I do not forget your law.
DARBY Translation: The bands of the wicked have wrapped me round: I have not forgotten thy law.
KJV Translation: The bandsK4011of the wicked have robbed me: [but] I have not forgotten thy law.
Keywords: FALSEHOOD,HEART,OBEDIENCE,PERSECUTION,PRIDE
Description: Psalms 119:69
NET Translation: Arrogant people smear my reputation with lies, but I observe your precepts with all my heart.
DARBY Translation: The proud have forged falsehood against me: I will observe thy precepts with [my] whole heart.
KJV Translation: The proud have forged a lie against me: [but] I will keep thy precepts with [my] whole heart.
Keywords: MALICE,MEDITATION,PERSECUTION,PRAYER,PRIDE
Description: Psalms 119:78
NET Translation: May the arrogant be humiliated, for they have slandered me. But I meditate on your precepts.
DARBY Translation: Let the proud be ashamed; for they have acted perversely towardsD3973 me with falsehood: as for me, I meditate in thy precepts.
KJV Translation: Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: [but] I will meditate in thy precepts.
Keywords: PERSECUTION,PIT
Description: Psalms 119:85
NET Translation: The arrogant dig pits to trap me, which violates your law.
DARBY Translation: The proud have digged pits for me, which is notD3975 according to thy law.
KJV Translation: The proud have digged pits for me, which [are] not after thy law.
Keywords: PERSECUTION
Description: Psalms 119:95
NET Translation: The wicked prepare to kill me, yet I concentrate on your rules.
DARBY Translation: The wicked have awaited me to destroy me; [but] I attend unto thy testimonies.
KJV Translation: The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: [but] I will consider thy testimonies.
Keywords: OBEDIENCE,PERSECUTION,TEMPTATION
Description: Psalms 119:110
NET Translation: The wicked lay a trap for me, but I do not wander from your precepts.
DARBY Translation: The wicked have laid a snare for me; but I have not wandered from thy precepts.
KJV Translation: The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
Keywords: PERSECUTION,WORD OF GOD
Description: Psalms 119:157
NET Translation: The enemies who chase me are numerous. Yet I do not turn aside from your rules.
DARBY Translation: Many are my persecutors and mine oppressorsD3994; I have not declined from thy testimonies.
KJV Translation: Many [are] my persecutors and mine enemies; [yet] do I not decline from thy testimonies.
Keywords: HEART,PERSECUTION,QUOTATIONS AND ALLUSIONS
Description: Psalms 119:161
NET Translation: ש/ש (Sin/Shin). Rulers pursue me for no reason, yet I am more afraid of disobeying your instructions.
DARBY Translation: SHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause; but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
KJV Translation: SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
Keywords: PERSECUTION,PRAISE,PSALMS,GOD
Description: Psalms 124:1
NET Translation: A song of ascents; by David. “If the Lord had not been on our side”—let Israel say this.—
DARBY Translation: A Song of degrees. Of David. If it had not been Jehovah who was for us oh let Israel sa
KJV Translation: A Song of degrees of David. If [it had not been] the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;
Verse Intro: The Lord Delivered Israel from Disaster
Keywords: PRAISE,PSALMS,ENEMY,PERSECUTION
Description: Psalms 129:1
NET Translation: A song of ascents. “Since my youth they have often attacked me,” let Israel say.
DARBY Translation: A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth oh let Israel sa
KJV Translation: A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
Verse Intro: Seeking the Humiliation of those Against Israel
Keywords: PERSECUTION
Description: Psalms 129:2
NET Translation: “Since my youth they have often attacked me, but they have not defeated me.
DARBY Translation: Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth; yet they have not prevailed against me.
KJV Translation: Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
Keywords: DAVID,PSALMS,AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,GOD
Description: Psalms 143:1
NET Translation: A psalm of David. O Lord, hear my prayer. Pay attention to my plea for help. Because of your faithfulness and justice, answer me.
DARBY Translation: A Psalm of David. Jehovah, hear my prayer; give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, in thy righteousness
KJV Translation: A Psalm of David. Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, [and] in thy righteousness.
Verse Intro: Thirsting for God in the Middle of Enemy PERSECUTION
Keywords: PERSECUTION
Description: Proverbs 29:10
NET Translation: Bloodthirsty people hate someone with integrity; as for the upright, they seek his life.
DARBY Translation: The bloodthirsty hate the perfect, but the upright care for his soulD4438.
KJV Translation: The bloodthirstyK4364hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.
Keywords: ABOMINATION,INJUSTICE,PERSECUTION,SIN
Description: Proverbs 29:27
NET Translation: An unjust person is an abomination to the righteous, and the one who lives an upright life is an abomination to the wicked.
DARBY Translation: An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous; and he that is of upright way is an abomination to the wicked [man].
KJV Translation: An unjust man [is] an abomination to the just: and [he that is] upright in the way [is] abomination to the wicked.
Keywords: FAITH,PERSECUTION
Description: Isaiah 26:20
NET Translation: Go, my people! Enter your inner rooms! Close your doors behind you! Hide for a little while, until his angry judgment is over.
DARBY Translation: Come, my people, enter into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee; hide thyself just for a little moment, until the indignation be past.
KJV Translation: Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
Keywords: INFIDELITY,MALICE,PERSECUTION,PRESUMPTION,RULERS,SCOFFING,UNCHARITABLENESS
Description: Isaiah 29:20
NET Translation: For tyrants will disappear, those who taunt will vanish, and all those who love to do wrong will be eliminated—
DARBY Translation: For the terrible one shall come to nought, and the scorner shall be no more, and all that watch for iniquity shall be cut off,
KJV Translation: For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
Keywords: MALICE,PERSECUTION,RULERS,UNCHARITABLENESS
Description: Isaiah 29:21
NET Translation: those who bear false testimony against a person, who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges.
DARBY Translation: that make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and pervert [the judgment of] the righteous by futilityD4846.
KJV Translation: That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
Keywords: GOD,ISRAEL,PROPHECIES CONCERNING JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION
Description: Isaiah 49:7
NET Translation: This is what the Lord, the Protector of Israel, their Holy One, says to the one who is despised and rejected by nations, a servant of rulers: “Kings will see and rise in respect, princes will bow down, because of the faithful Lord, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen you.”
DARBY Translation: Thus saith Jehovah, the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to him whom man despisethD5026, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to the servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise, princes, and they shall worship, because of Jehovah who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen thee.
KJV Translation: Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despisethK4942, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, [and] the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.
Keywords: ASSAULT AND BATTERY,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION
Description: Isaiah 50:6
NET Translation: I offered my back to those who attacked, my jaws to those who tore out my beard; I did not hide my face from insults and spitting.
DARBY Translation: I gave my back to smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
KJV Translation: I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
Keywords: COWARDICE,DEATH,HOLY SPIRIT,LIFE,PERSECUTION,WAR
Description: Isaiah 51:12
NET Translation: “I, I am the one who consoles you. Why are you afraid of mortal men, of mere human beings who are as short-lived as grass?
DARBY Translation: I, [even] I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou fearest a manD5044 that shall die, and the son of man that shall become as grass;
KJV Translation: I, [even] I, [am] he that comforteth you: who [art] thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man [that] shall die, and of the son of man [which] shall be made [as] grass;
Keywords: COWARDICE,FORGETTING GOD,GOD,PERSECUTION
Description: Isaiah 51:13
NET Translation: Why do you forget the Lord, who made you, who stretched out the sky and founded the earth? Why do you constantly tremble all day long at the anger of the oppressor, when he makes plans to destroy? Where is the anger of the oppressor?
DARBY Translation: and forgettest Jehovah thy Maker, who hath stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and thou art afraid continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepareth to destroy? And where is the fury of the oppressor?
KJV Translation: And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were readyK4952to destroy? and where [is] the fury of the oppressor?
Keywords: ISRAEL,PROPHECIES CONCERNING JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION
Description: Isaiah 52:14
NET Translation: (just as many were horrified by the sight of you) he was so disfigured he no longer looked like a man; his form was so marred he no longer looked human—
DARBY Translation: As many were astonished at thee his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the children of men
KJV Translation: As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
Keywords: PERSECUTION
Description: Isaiah 53:2
NET Translation: He sprouted up like a twig before God, like a root out of parched soil; he had no stately form or majesty that might catch our attention, no special appearance that we should want to follow him.
DARBY Translation: For he shall grow up before him as a tender sapling, and as a root out of dry ground: he hath no form nor lordliness, and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
KJV Translation: For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, [there is] no beauty that we should desire him.
Keywords: JESUS THE CHRIST,MEEKNESS,PERSECUTION,QUOTATIONS AND ALLUSIONS,SHEEP
Description: Isaiah 53:7
NET Translation: He was treated harshly and afflicted, but he did not even open his mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughtering block, like a sheep silent before her shearers, he did not even open his mouth.
DARBY Translation: He was oppressedD5056, and he was afflicted, but he opened not his mouth; he was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and was as a sheep dumb before her shearers, and he opened not his mouth.
KJV Translation: He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Keywords: JUSTICE,PERSECUTION,RULERS,TRUTH
Description: Isaiah 59:15
NET Translation: Honesty has disappeared; the one who tries to avoid evil is robbed. The Lord watches and is displeased, for there is no justice.
DARBY Translation: And truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. And Jehovah saw [it], and it was evil in his sight that there was no judgment.
KJV Translation: Yea, truth faileth; and he [that] departeth from evil maketh himself a preyK5002: and the LORD saw [it], and it displeased himK5003that [there was] no judgment.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,CHASTISEMENT,PERSECUTION,PROPHETS
Description: Jeremiah 2:30
NET Translation: “It did no good for me to punish your people. They did not respond to such correction. You slaughtered your prophets like a voracious lion.
DARBY Translation: In vain have I smitten your children: they received no correction. Your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
KJV Translation: In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Keywords: CONSPIRACY,PERSECUTION
Description: Jeremiah 11:19
NET Translation: Before this I had been like a docile lamb ready to be led to the slaughter. I did not know they were making plans to kill me. I did not know they were saying, “Let’s destroy the tree along with its fruit! Let’s remove Jeremiah from the world of the living so people will not even be reminded of him anymore.”
DARBY Translation: And I was like a tame lambD5253 [that] is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they devised devices against me, [saying,] Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
KJV Translation: But I [was] like a lamb [or] an ox [that] is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereofK5136, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Verse Intro: Men Plot Against Jeremiah
Keywords: JEREMIAH,MURMURING,PERSECUTION,USURY
Description: Jeremiah 15:10
NET Translation: I said, “Oh, mother, how I regret that you ever gave birth to me! I am always starting arguments and quarrels with the people of this land. I have not lent money to anyone and I have not borrowed from anyone. Yet all these people are treating me with contempt.”
DARBY Translation: Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole land! I have not lent on usury, nor have they lent to me on usury; [yet] every one of them doth curse me.
KJV Translation: Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; [yet] every one of them doth curse me.
Verse Intro: Jeremiah's Complaint and the Lord's Response
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,GOD,JEREMIAH,PERSECUTION,PRAYER
Description: Jeremiah 15:15
NET Translation: I said, “Lord, you know how I suffer. Take thought of me and care for me. Pay back for me those who have been persecuting me. Do not be so patient with them that you allow them to kill me. Be mindful of how I have put up with their insults for your sake.
DARBY Translation: Jehovah, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; in thy long-suffering take me not away: know that for thy sake I bear reproach.
KJV Translation: O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
Keywords: BLASPHEMY,INFIDELITY,JEREMIAH,PERSECUTION,SCOFFING
Description: Jeremiah 17:15
NET Translation: Listen to what they are saying to me, ‘Where are the things the Lord threatens us with? May it please happen!’
DARBY Translation: Behold, these say unto me, Where is the word of Jehovah? let it then come!
KJV Translation: Behold, they say unto me, Where [is] the word of the LORD? let it come now.
Keywords: CONSPIRACY,JEREMIAH,PERSECUTION,SLANDER
Description: Jeremiah 18:18
NET Translation: Then some people said, “Come on! Let us consider how to deal with Jeremiah! There will still be priests to instruct us, wise men to give us advice, and prophets to declare God’s word. Come on! Let’s bring charges against him and get rid of him! Then we will not need to pay attention to anything he says.”
DARBY Translation: And they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor word from the prophet. Come and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
KJV Translation: Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongueK5182, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
Verse Intro: Jeremiah Seeks Help Against His Attackers
Keywords: BLASPHEMY,JEREMIAH,PERSECUTION
Description: Jeremiah 20:7
NET Translation: Lord, you coerced me into being a prophet, and I allowed you to do it. You overcame my resistance and prevailed over me. Now I have become a constant laughingstock. Everyone ridicules me.
DARBY Translation: Jehovah, thou hast enticed me, and I was enticed; thou hast laid hold of me, and hast prevailed; I am become a derision the whole day: every one mocketh me.
KJV Translation: O LORD, thou hast deceivedK5188me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.
Verse Intro: Jeremiah Seeks God's Help as His Ministry is Rejected
Keywords: PERSECUTION
Description: Jeremiah 20:8
NET Translation: For whenever I prophesy, I must cry out, “Violence and destruction are coming!” This message from the Lord has made me an object of continual insults and derision.
DARBY Translation: For as oft as I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and spoil; for the word of Jehovah is become unto me a reproach and a derision all the day.
KJV Translation: For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
Keywords: PERSECUTION,INDICTMENTS,JEREMIAH,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,PROPHECY,PROPHETS
Description: Jeremiah 26:1
NET Translation: The Lord spoke to Jeremiah at the beginning of the reign of Josiah’s son, King Jehoiakim of Judah.
DARBY Translation: In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, came this word from Jehovah, saying,
KJV Translation: In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying,
Verse Intro: Jeremiah on Trial as a False Prophet
Keywords: FALSE ACCUSATION,COURT,JERUSALEM,PERSECUTION,REPROOF
Description: Jeremiah 26:11
NET Translation: Then the priests and the prophets made their charges before the officials and all the people. They said, “This man should be condemned to die because he prophesied against this city. You have heard him do so with your own ears.”
DARBY Translation: And the priests and the prophets spoke unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die, for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.
KJV Translation: Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man [is] worthy to die; for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.
Keywords: BURIAL,JEHOIAKIM,PERSECUTION
Description: Jeremiah 26:23
NET Translation: and they brought Uriah back from there. They took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him executed and had his body thrown into the burial place of the common people.
DARBY Translation: and they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king; and he slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the children of the peopleD5342.
KJV Translation: And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common peopleK5227.
Keywords: BABYLON,JERUSALEM,PERSECUTION,PRISONERS,ZEDEKIAH
Description: Jeremiah 32:2
NET Translation: Now at that time, the armies of the king of Babylon were besieging Jerusalem. The prophet Jeremiah was confined in the courtyard of the guardhouse attached to the royal palace of Judah.
DARBY Translation: And the king of Babylon's army was then besieging Jerusalem; and the prophet Jeremiah was shut up in the court of the guardD5376, which was in the king of Judah's house.
KJV Translation: For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which [was] in the king of Judah's house.
Keywords: PROPHECIES CONCERNING ISRAEL,JEREMIAH,PERSECUTION,PRISON,PROPHECY,PROPHETS
Description: Jeremiah 33:1
NET Translation: The Lord’s message came to Jeremiah a second time while he was still confined in the courtyard of the guardhouse.
DARBY Translation: And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
KJV Translation: Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
Verse Intro: The Lord Promises Again to Restore Judah and Israel
Keywords: ABDEEL,AZRIEL,GOD,HAMMELECH,JERAHMEEL,PERSECUTION,SERAIAH,SHELEMIAH
Description: Jeremiah 36:26
NET Translation: He also ordered Jerahmeel, who was one of the royal princes, Seraiah son of Azriel, and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest the scribe Baruch and the prophet Jeremiah. However, the Lord hid them.
DARBY Translation: And the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of HammelechD5403, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Jehovah hid them.
KJV Translation: But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of HammelechK5276, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.
Keywords: PROPHECIES CONCERNING ISRAEL,PERSECUTION,ALLIANCES,JEHOIACHIN,ZEDEKIAH
Description: Jeremiah 37:1
NET Translation: Zedekiah son of Josiah succeeded Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim as king. He was elevated to the throne of the land of Judah by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.
DARBY Translation: And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon having made him king in the land of Judah.
KJV Translation: And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.
Verse Intro: The Times of King Zedekiah
Keywords: MALICE,GEDALIAH,PROPHECIES CONCERNING ISRAEL,JEHUCAL,MALCHIAH,MATTAN,PASHUR,PERSECUTION,SHELEMIAH,SHEPHATIAH
Description: Jeremiah 38:1
NET Translation: Now Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jehucal son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malkijah had heard the things that Jeremiah had been telling the people. They had heard him say,
DARBY Translation: And Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchijah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying,
KJV Translation: Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying,
Verse Intro: Officials Charge Jeremiah with Treason and He is Imprisoned in a Muddy Cistern
Keywords: GOD,PERSECUTION
Description: Jeremiah 50:7
NET Translation: All who encountered them devoured them. Their enemies who did this said, ‘We are not liable for punishment! For those people have sinned against the Lord, their true pasture. They have sinned against the Lord in whom their ancestors trusted.’
DARBY Translation: All that found them devoured them, and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Jehovah, the habitation of righteousness, even Jehovah, the hope of their fathers.
KJV Translation: All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.
Keywords: CAPTIVITY,PERSECUTION,SIN
Description: Lamentations 1:3
NET Translation: ג (Gimel). Judah has departed into exile under affliction and harsh oppression. She lives among the nations; she has found no resting place. All who pursued her overtook her in narrow straits.
DARBY Translation: Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; she dwelleth among the nations, she findeth no rest: all her pursuers have overtaken her within the straits.
KJV Translation: Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitudeK5418: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
Keywords: FAMINE
Description: Lamentations 5:5
NET Translation: We are pursued—they are breathing down our necks; we are weary and have no rest.
DARBY Translation: Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.
KJV Translation: Our necks [are] under PERSECUTION: we labour, [and] have no rest.
Keywords: CONSPIRACY,FAITH,PERSECUTION
Description: Daniel 3:8
NET Translation: Now at that time certain Chaldeans came forward and brought malicious accusations against the Jews.
DARBY Translation: Whereupon at that time certain ChaldeansD5997 came near, and accusedD5998 the Jews.
KJV Translation: Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews.
Verse Intro: Daniel's Friends Tested - Bow Down or Burn in the Furnace
Keywords: DANIEL,DARIUS,FAITH,GOD,LION,PERSECUTION,PERSIA,BABYLON,GOVERNMENT,KING,CIVIL MINISTER,RULERS
Description: Daniel 6:1
NET Translation: It seemed like a good idea to Darius to appoint over the kingdom 120 satraps who would be in charge of the entire kingdom.
DARBY Translation: It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, who should be in all the kingdom;
KJV Translation: It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;
Verse Intro: Daniel's Devotion to God and the Test of the Lion's Den
Keywords: MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,PERSECUTION,REPROOF,WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: Amos 5:10
NET Translation: The Israelites hate anyone who arbitrates at the city gate; they despise anyone who speaks honestly.
DARBY Translation: They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
KJV Translation: They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
Keywords: MICAH,COURT,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION
Description: Micah 5:1
NET Translation: (4:14) But now slash yourself, daughter surrounded by soldiers! We are besieged! With a scepter they strike Israel’s ruler on the side of his face.
DARBY Translation: Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops; he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
KJV Translation: Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,ANTHROPOMORPHISMS,EYE,GOD,HAPPINESS,PERSECUTION,SIN,WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: Habakkuk 1:13
NET Translation: You are too just to tolerate evil; you are unable to condone wrongdoing. So why do you put up with such treacherous people? Why do you say nothing when the wicked devour those more righteous than they are?
DARBY Translation: [Thou art] of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on mischief: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, [and] keepest silence when the wicked swalloweth up a [man] more righteous than he?
KJV Translation: [Thou art] of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquityK6368: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, [and] holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth [the man that is] more righteous than he?
Keywords: ANGEL (a spirit),DREAM,EGYPT,FAITH,FUGITIVES,GOD,JESUS THE CHRIST,JOSEPH,MIRACLES,PERSECUTION
Description: Matthew 2:13
NET Translation: After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to look for the child to kill him.”
DARBY Translation: Now, they having departed, behold, an angel of [the] LordD6630 appears in a dream to Joseph, saying, Arise, take to [thee] the little child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be there until I shall tell thee; for Herod will seek the little child to destroy it.
KJV Translation: And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
Verse Intro: Joseph, Mary, and Jesus Flee to Egypt"""
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,CHURCH,PERSECUTION
Description: Matthew 5:10
NET Translation: “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.
DARBY Translation: Blessed they who are persecuted on account of righteousness, for *theirs* is the kingdom of the heavens.
KJV Translation: “Blessed” [are] “they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
Keywords: CURSING,GOOD FOR EVIL,HATRED,INTERCESSION,PERSECUTION
Description: Matthew 5:44
NET Translation: But I say to you, love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you,
DARBY Translation: But *I* say unto you, Love your enemies, [bless those who curse you,] do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who [insult you and] persecute you,
KJV Translation: “But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;”
Keywords: TURTLE DOVE,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,PERSECUTION,SERPENT,SHEEP,WOLF
Description: Matthew 10:16
NET Translation: “I am sending you out like sheep surrounded by wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
DARBY Translation: Behold, *I* send you as sheep in the midst of wolves; be therefore prudent as the serpents, and guileless as the doves.
KJV Translation: “Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmlessK6569as doves.”
Verse Intro: Disciples to be Persecuted Like their Master
Keywords: MARTYRDOM,PEACE,PERSECUTION
Description: Matthew 10:21
NET Translation: “Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.
DARBY Translation: But brother shall deliver up brother to deathD6724, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents and shall put them to death;
KJV Translation: “And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against” [their] “parents, and cause them to be put to death.”
Keywords: DEATH,GOD,HADES,HELL,IMMORTALITY,MAN,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,PERSECUTION,POWER,PUNISHMENT,REVERENCE,RIGHTEOUS,WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: Matthew 10:28
NET Translation: Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
DARBY Translation: And be not afraid ofD6729 those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul; but fear rather him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hellD6730.
KJV Translation: “And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”
Keywords: ABSTEMIOUSNESS,ASCETICISM,BIGOTRY,DRUNKENNESS,FALSEHOOD,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION,PUBLICANS,SLANDER,TAX,WINEBIBBER (A WINO),WISDOM
Description: Matthew 11:19
NET Translation: The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”
DARBY Translation: The Son of man has come eating and drinking, and they say, Behold, a man [that is] eating and wine-drinkingD6737, a friend of tax-gatherers, and of sinners: and wisdom has been justified by her children.
KJV Translation: “The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.”
Keywords: CONSPIRACY,PERSECUTION,PRUDENCE
Description: Matthew 12:14
NET Translation: But the Pharisees went out and plotted against him, as to how they could assassinate him.
DARBY Translation: But the Pharisees, having gone out, took counsel against him, how they might destroy him.
KJV Translation: Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.
Keywords: BEELZEBUB,INFIDELITY,PERSECUTION,SATAN,SCOFFING
Description: Matthew 12:24
NET Translation: But when the Pharisees heard this they said, “He does not cast out demons except by the power of Beelzebul, the ruler of demons!”
DARBY Translation: But the Pharisees, having heard [it], said, This [man] does not cast out demons, but byD6749 Beelzebub, prince of demons.
KJV Translation: But when the Pharisees heard [it], they said, This [fellow] doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
Keywords: APOSTASY,CONVERTS,INSTABILITY
Description: Matthew 13:21
NET Translation: But he has no root in himself and does not endure; when trouble or PERSECUTION comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.
DARBY Translation: but has no root in himself, but is for a time only; and when tribulation or PERSECUTION happens on account of the word, he is immediately offendedD6763.
KJV Translation: “Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or PERSECUTION ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.”
Keywords: ADULTERY,HEROD,HERODIAS,IMPRISONMENT,INCEST,MALICE,OATH,PERSECUTION,PHILIP,POLITICS,PRISONERS,REPROOF,WOMEN
Description: Matthew 14:3
NET Translation: For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,
DARBY Translation: For Herod had seized John, and had bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother.
KJV Translation: For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put [him] in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.
Keywords: JESUS THE CHRIST,MIRACLES,PERSECUTION,PHARISEES,REPROOF
Description: Matthew 16:1
NET Translation: Now when the Pharisees and Sadducees came to test Jesus, they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.
DARBY Translation: And the Pharisees and Sadducees, coming to [him], asked him, tempting [him], to shew them a sign out of heaven.
KJV Translation: The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
Verse Intro: Pharisees and Sadducees Demand a Sign from Jesus
Keywords: APOSTLES,CUP,PERSECUTION
Description: Matthew 20:22
NET Translation: Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup I am about to drink?” They said to him, “We are able.”
DARBY Translation: And Jesus answering said, Ye know not what ye ask. Can ye drinkD6852 the cup which *I* am about to drink? They say to him, We are able.
KJV Translation: But Jesus answered and said, “Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They say unto him, We are able.
Keywords: CUP,GOD,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION,PREDESTINATION
Description: Matthew 20:23
NET Translation: He told them, “You will drink my cup, but to sit at my right and at my left is not mine to give. Rather, it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”
DARBY Translation: [And] he says toD6853 them, Ye shall drink indeed my cup, but to sit on my right hand and on [my] left, is not mine to give, but to those for whom it is prepared of my Father.
KJV Translation: And he saith unto them, “Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but” [it shall be given to them] “for whom it is prepared of my Father.”
Keywords: PERSECUTION
Description: Matthew 21:35
NET Translation: But the tenants seized his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
DARBY Translation: And the husbandmen took his bondmen, and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
KJV Translation: “And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.”
Keywords: PERSECUTION
Description: Matthew 21:36
NET Translation: Again he sent other slaves, more than the first, and they treated them the same way.
DARBY Translation: Again he sent other bondmen more than the first, and they did to them in like manner.
KJV Translation: “Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.”
Keywords: CRAFTINESS,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION,PHARISEES,TRIBUTE (TAXES)
Description: Matthew 22:15
NET Translation: Then the Pharisees went out and planned together to entrap him with his own words.
DARBY Translation: Then went the Pharisees and held a council how they might ensnare him in speaking.
KJV Translation: Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in [his] talk.
Verse Intro: The Question of Paying Taxes to Ceasar
Keywords: CRUCIFIXION,JESUS THE CHRIST,MARTYRDOM,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,OPPORTUNITY,PERSECUTION,SYNAGOGUE
Description: Matthew 23:34
NET Translation: “For this reason I am sending you prophets and wise men and experts in the law, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town,
DARBY Translation: Therefore, behold, *I* send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and [some] of them ye will kill and crucify, and [some] of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute from city to city;
KJV Translation: “Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and” [some] “of them ye shall kill and crucify; and” [some] “of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute” [them] “from city to city:”
Keywords: ABEL,ALTAR,BARACHIAH,PROPHECIES CONCERNING ISRAEL,JOASH,MARTYRDOM,PERSECUTION,ZACHARIAS (ZECHARIAH),ZECHARIAH (ZECHARIAS)
Description: Matthew 23:35
NET Translation: so that on you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
DARBY Translation: so that all righteous blood shed upon the earth should come upon *you*, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the templeD6901 and the altar.
KJV Translation: “That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.”
Keywords: PERSECUTION
Description: Matthew 24:8
NET Translation: All these things are the beginning of birth pains.
DARBY Translation: But all these [are the] beginning of throes.
KJV Translation: “All these” [are] “the beginning of sorrows.”
Keywords: CAIAPHAS,CONSPIRACY,GOVERNMENT,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,PERSECUTION,PRIEST,SCRIBE (S)
Description: Matthew 26:3
NET Translation: Then the chief priests and the elders of the people met together in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.
DARBY Translation: Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered together to the palace of the high priest who was called Caiaphas,
KJV Translation: Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
Keywords: CONSPIRACY,CRAFTINESS,PERSECUTION
Description: Matthew 26:4
NET Translation: They planned to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.
DARBY Translation: and took counsel together in order that they might seize Jesus by subtlety and kill him;
KJV Translation: And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill [him].
Keywords: APOSTASY,BETRAYAL,CHURCH,FELLOWSHIP,GOVERNMENT,JUDAS (JUDE),MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,PERSECUTION,PRIEST,TRAITOR
Description: Matthew 26:14
NET Translation: Then one of the twelve, the one named Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests
DARBY Translation: Then one of the twelve, he who was called Judas Iscariote, went to the chief priests
KJV Translation: Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,
Verse Intro: Judas' Plan to Betray Jesus - Chief Priests Payment - 30 Silver Pieces
Keywords: FALSE ACCUSATION,CHURCH,COURT,FALSE TEACHERS,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERJURY,PERSECUTION,RULERS
Description: Matthew 26:59
NET Translation: The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were trying to find false testimony against Jesus so that they could put him to death.
DARBY Translation: And the chief priests and the elders and the whole sanhedrimD6941 sought false witness against Jesus, so that they might put him to death.
KJV Translation: Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
Keywords: ASSAULT AND BATTERY,CRUELTY,MOCKING,PERSECUTION,SPITTING
Description: Matthew 26:67
NET Translation: Then they spat in his face and struck him with their fists. And some slapped him,
DARBY Translation: Then they spit in his face, and buffetedD6944 him, and some struck him with the palms of their hand,
KJV Translation: Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote [him] with the palmsK6594of their hands,
Keywords: IMPENITENCE,PERSECUTION,RESPONSIBILITY
Description: Matthew 27:25
NET Translation: In reply all the people said, “Let his blood be on us and on our children!”
DARBY Translation: And all the people answering said, His blood [be] on us and on our children.
KJV Translation: Then answered all the people, and said, His blood [be] on us, and on our children.
Keywords: INFIDELITY,JESUS THE CHRIST,MOCKING,PERSECUTION,REVILING
Description: Matthew 27:39
NET Translation: Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads
DARBY Translation: But the passers-by reviled him, shaking their heads
KJV Translation: And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
Keywords: CONSPIRACY,HERODIANS,PERSECUTION
Description: Mark 3:6
NET Translation: So the Pharisees went out immediately and began plotting with the Herodians, as to how they could assassinate him.
DARBY Translation: And the Pharisees going out straightway with the Herodians took counselD6985 against him, how they might destroy him.
KJV Translation: And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
Keywords: INSANITY,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION
Description: Mark 3:21
NET Translation: When his family heard this they went out to restrain him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”
DARBY Translation: And his relatives having heard [of it] went out to lay hold on him, for they said, He is out of his mind.
KJV Translation: And when his friendsK6606heard [of it], they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.
Keywords: FALSE ACCUSATION,BEELZEBUB,DEMONS,INFIDELITY,PERSECUTION,SATAN,SCOFFING
Description: Mark 3:22
NET Translation: The experts in the law who came down from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and, “By the ruler of demons he casts out demons!”
DARBY Translation: And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said, He has Beelzebub, and, ByD6989 the prince of the demons he casts out demons.
KJV Translation: And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils.
Verse Intro: The Source of Jesus' Power - Beelzubul or the Holy Spirit
Keywords: TEMPTATION
Description: Mark 4:17
NET Translation: But they have no root in themselves and do not endure. Then, when trouble or PERSECUTION comes because of the word, immediately they fall away.
DARBY Translation: and they have no root in themselves, but are for a time: then, tribulation arising, or PERSECUTION on account of the word, immediately they are offended.
KJV Translation: “And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or PERSECUTION ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.”
Keywords: COMMANDMENTS,JESUS THE CHRIST,MILLSTONE,PERSECUTION
Description: Mark 9:42
NET Translation: “If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a huge millstone tied around his neck and to be thrown into the sea.
DARBY Translation: And whosoever shall be a snareD7054 to one of the little ones who believe [in me], it were better for him if a millstoneD7055 were hung about his neck, and he cast into the sea.
KJV Translation: “And whosoever shall offend one of” [these] “little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.”
Keywords: IMMORTALITY,JESUS THE CHRIST,LIFE,RIGHTEOUS
Description: Mark 10:30
NET Translation: who will not receive in this age a hundred times as much—homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, fields, all with PERSECUTIONs—and in the age to come, eternal life.
DARBY Translation: that shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time: houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with PERSECUTIONs, and in the coming age life eternal.
KJV Translation: “But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with PERSECUTIONs; and in the world to come eternal life.”
Keywords: JESUS THE CHRIST,PUBLIC OPINION,PERSECUTION
Description: Mark 11:18
NET Translation: The chief priests and the experts in the law heard it and they considered how they could assassinate him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed by his teaching.
DARBY Translation: And the chief priests and the scribes heard [it], and they sought how they might destroy him; for they feared him, because all the crowd were astonished at his doctrine.
KJV Translation: And the scribes and chief priests heard [it], and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.
Keywords: CRAFTINESS,HERODIANS,HYPOCRISY,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION,SATIRE
Description: Mark 12:13
NET Translation: Then they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to trap him with his own words.
DARBY Translation: And they send to him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they might catch him in speaking.
KJV Translation: And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in [his] words.
Verse Intro: The Question of Paying Taxes to Ceasar
Keywords: BEATING,PERSECUTION,WATCHFULNESS
Description: Mark 13:9
NET Translation: “You must watch out for yourselves. You will be handed over to councils and beaten in the synagogues. You will stand before governors and kings because of me, as a witness to them.
DARBY Translation: But *ye*, take heed to yourselves, for they shall deliver you up to sanhedrimsD7113 and to synagogues: ye shall be beaten and brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them;
KJV Translation: “But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.”
Verse Intro: Disciples to Be Persecuted Toward the End of the Age
Keywords: HOLY SPIRIT,PERSECUTION
Description: Mark 13:11
NET Translation: When they arrest you and hand you over for trial, do not worry about what to speak. But say whatever is given you at that time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.
DARBY Translation: But when they shall lead you away to deliver you up, be not careful beforehand as to what ye shall say, [nor prepare your discourse]: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak; for *ye* are not the speakers, but the Holy Spirit.
KJV Translation: “But when they shall lead” [you], “and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.”
Keywords: CRAFTINESS,DECEPTION,PASSOVER,PERSECUTION,SCRIBE (S)
Description: Mark 14:1
NET Translation: Two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the chief priests and the experts in the law were trying to find a way to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.
DARBY Translation: Now the passover and the [feast of] unleavened bread was after two days. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they might seize him by subtlety and kill him.
KJV Translation: After two days was [the feast of] the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put [him] to death.
Verse Intro: The Plot Aginst Jesus
Keywords: PERSECUTION
Description: Mark 14:48
NET Translation: Jesus said to them, “Have you come with swords and clubs to arrest me like you would an outlaw?
DARBY Translation: And Jesus answering said to them, Are ye come out as against a robber, with swords and sticks to take me?
KJV Translation: And Jesus answered and said unto them, “Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and” [with] “staves to take me?”
Keywords: ASSAULT AND BATTERY,MOCKING,PERSECUTION
Description: Mark 14:65
NET Translation: Then some began to spit on him, and to blindfold him, and to strike him with their fists, saying, “Prophesy!” The guards also took him and beat him.
DARBY Translation: And some began to spit upon him, and cover up his face, and buffet him, and say to him, Prophesy; and the officers struck him with the palms of their handsD7136.
KJV Translation: And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands.
Keywords: PERSECUTION
Description: Mark 15:14
NET Translation: Pilate asked them, “Why? What has he done wrong?” But they shouted more insistently, “Crucify him!”
DARBY Translation: And Pilate said to them, What evil then has he done? But they cried out the more urgently, Crucify him.
KJV Translation: Then Pilate said unto them, Why, what evil hath he done? And they cried out the more exceedingly, Crucify him.
Keywords: ALEXANDER,CROSS,CYRENE,PERSECUTION,RUFUS,SIMON
Description: Mark 15:21
NET Translation: The soldiers forced a passerby to carry his cross, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country (he was the father of Alexander and Rufus).
DARBY Translation: And they compel to go [with them] a certain passer-by, Simon, a Cyrenian, coming from the field, the father of Alexander and Rufus, that he might carry his cross.
KJV Translation: And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.
Verse Intro: Jesus is Crucified
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,ELOI,JESUS THE CHRIST,LAMA SABACHTHANI,PERSECUTION,PROPHECY,QUOTATIONS AND ALLUSIONS
Description: Mark 15:34
NET Translation: Around three o’clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
DARBY Translation: and at the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, [saying], Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
KJV Translation: And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Keywords: APOSTLES,CHARISM,DEMONS,JESUS THE CHRIST,LANGUAGE,MIRACLES,PERSECUTION,POWER
Description: Mark 16:17
NET Translation: These signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new languages;
DARBY Translation: And these signs shall follow those that have believed: in my name they shall cast out demons; they shall speak with newD7149 tongues;
KJV Translation: “And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;”
Keywords: ANGER,BIGOTRY,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION,REPROOF
Description: Luke 4:28
NET Translation: When they heard this, all the people in the synagogue were filled with rage.
DARBY Translation: And they were all filled with rage in the synagogue, hearing these things;
KJV Translation: And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,
Keywords: JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION,REPROOF
Description: Luke 4:29
NET Translation: They got up, forced him out of the town, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff.
DARBY Translation: and rising up they cast him forth out of the city, and led him up to the brow of the mountain upon which their city was built, so that they might throw him down the precipice;
KJV Translation: And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the browK6656of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
Keywords: PERSECUTION
Description: Luke 6:11
NET Translation: But they were filled with mindless rage and began debating with one another what they would do to Jesus.
DARBY Translation: But *they* were filled with madness, and they spoke together among themselves what they should do to Jesus.
KJV Translation: And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.
Keywords: JOY,PERSECUTION,REWARD,WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: Luke 6:22
NET Translation: “Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject you as evil on account of the Son of Man!
DARBY Translation: Blessed are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you [from them], and shall reproach [you], and cast out your name as wicked, for the Son of man's sake:
KJV Translation: “Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you” [from their company], “and shall reproach” [you], “and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.”
Keywords: JOY,PERSECUTION,REWARD,WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: Luke 6:23
NET Translation: Rejoice in that day, and jump for joy, because your reward is great in heaven. For their ancestors did the same things to the prophets.
DARBY Translation: rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in the heaven, for after this manner did their fathers act toward the prophets.
KJV Translation: “Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward” [is] “great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.”
Keywords: FLATTERY,PERSECUTION
Description: Luke 6:26
NET Translation: “Woe to you when all people speak well of you, for their ancestors did the same things to the false prophets.
DARBY Translation: Woe, when all men speak well of you, for after this manner did their fathers to the false prophets.
KJV Translation: “Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.”
Keywords: ASCETICISM,PERSECUTION,WINEBIBBER (A WINO)
Description: Luke 7:34
NET Translation: The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’
DARBY Translation: The Son of man has come eating and drinking, and ye say, Behold an eater and wine-drinkerD7260, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners;
KJV Translation: “The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!”
Keywords: BEELZEBUB,INFIDELITY,JESUS THE CHRIST,MIRACLES,PERSECUTION,SATAN,SCOFFING
Description: Luke 11:15
NET Translation: But some of them said, “By the power of Beelzebul, the ruler of demons, he casts out demons!”
DARBY Translation: But some from among them said, ByD7315 Beelzebub the prince of the demons casts he out demons.
KJV Translation: But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils.
Keywords: JUDGMENT,RESPONSIBILITY
Description: Luke 11:49
NET Translation: For this reason also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’
DARBY Translation: For this reason also the wisdom of God has said, I will send to them prophets and apostles, and of these shall they kill and drive out by PERSECUTION,
KJV Translation: “Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and” [some] “of them they shall slay and persecute:”
Keywords: MALICE,PERSECUTION
Description: Luke 11:53
NET Translation: When he went out from there, the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to oppose him bitterly, and to ask him hostile questions about many things,
DARBY Translation: And as he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him urgently, and to make him speak of many things;
KJV Translation: And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge [him] vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:
Keywords: MALICE,PERSECUTION
Description: Luke 11:54
NET Translation: plotting against him, to catch him in something he might say.
DARBY Translation: watching him, [and seeking] to catch something out of his mouth, [that they might accuse him].
KJV Translation: Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
Keywords: JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION
Description: Luke 12:50
NET Translation: I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is finished!
DARBY Translation: But I have a baptism to be baptised with, and how am I straitened until it shall have been accomplished!
KJV Translation: “But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitenedK6677till it be accomplished!”
Keywords: HEROD,PERSECUTION,RULERS
Description: Luke 13:31
NET Translation: At that time, some Pharisees came up and said to Jesus, “Get away from here, because Herod wants to kill you.”
DARBY Translation: The same hour certain Pharisees came up, saying to him, Get out, and go hence, for Herod is desirous to kill thee.
KJV Translation: The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee.
Verse Intro: Jesus Going to Jerusalem and His Lament Over It
Keywords: PARADOX,PERSECUTION,WORLDLINESS
Description: Luke 17:33
NET Translation: Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.
DARBY Translation: Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose it shall preserve it.
KJV Translation: “Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.”
Keywords: INFIDELITY,PERSECUTION
Description: Luke 19:14
NET Translation: But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to be king over us!’
DARBY Translation: But his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy after him, saying, We will not that this [man] should reign over us.
KJV Translation: “But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this” [man] “to reign over us.”
Keywords: INSTRUCTION,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION
Description: Luke 19:47
NET Translation: Jesus was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law and the prominent leaders among the people were seeking to assassinate him,
DARBY Translation: And he was teaching day by day in the templeD7392: and the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,
KJV Translation: And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,
Keywords: DETECTIVES,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION,SPIES
Description: Luke 20:20
NET Translation: Then they watched him carefully and sent spies who pretended to be sincere. They wanted to take advantage of what he might say so that they could deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.
DARBY Translation: And having watched [him], theyD7397 sent out suborned persons, pretending to be just men, that they might take hold of him in [his] language, so that they might deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
KJV Translation: And they watched [him], and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
Keywords: PERSECUTION
Description: Luke 21:12
NET Translation: But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you, handing you over to the synagogues and prisons. You will be brought before kings and governors because of my name.
DARBY Translation: But before all these things they shall lay their hands upon you and persecute you, delivering [you] up to synagogues and prisons, bringing [you] before kings and governors on account of my name;
KJV Translation: “But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute” [you], “delivering” [you] “up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.”
Verse Intro: Disciples to Be Persecuted Toward the End of the Age
Keywords: PERSECUTION,PRIEST
Description: Luke 22:2
NET Translation: The chief priests and the experts in the law were trying to find some way to execute Jesus, for they were afraid of the people.
DARBY Translation: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.
KJV Translation: And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.
Keywords: GOVERNMENT,PERSECUTION,TEMPLE
Description: Luke 22:52
NET Translation: Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard, and the elders who had come out to get him, “Have you come out with swords and clubs like you would against an outlaw?
DARBY Translation: And Jesus said to the chief priests and captains of the templeD7419 and elders, who were come against him, Have ye come out as against a robber with swords and sticks?
KJV Translation: Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, “Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?”
Keywords: DARKNESS,PERSECUTION,SATAN
Description: Luke 22:53
NET Translation: Day after day when I was with you in the temple courts, you did not arrest me. But this is your hour, and that of the power of darkness!”
DARBY Translation: When I was day by day with you in the templeD7420 ye did not stretch out your hands against me; but this is your hour and the power of darkness.
KJV Translation: “When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”
Keywords: ASSAULT AND BATTERY,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION,SCOFFING
Description: Luke 22:63
NET Translation: Now the men who were holding Jesus under guard began to mock him and beat him.
DARBY Translation: And the men who held him mocked him, beating [him];
KJV Translation: And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote [him].
Verse Intro: Jesus Condemed by Caiaphas and the Sanhedrin
Keywords: IRONY,MALICE,MOCKING,PERSECUTION,SARCASM,SCOFFING,SOLDIERS
Description: Luke 23:11
NET Translation: Even Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Then, dressing him in elegant clothes, Herod sent him back to Pilate.
DARBY Translation: And Herod with his troops having set him at nought and mocked him, having put a splendid robe upon him, sent him backD7422 to Pilate.
KJV Translation: And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked [him], and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.
Keywords: PERSECUTION
Description: Luke 23:23
NET Translation: But they were insistent, demanding with loud shouts that he be crucified. And their shouts prevailed.
DARBY Translation: But they were urgent with loud voices, begging that he might be crucified. And their voices [and those of the chief priests] prevailed.
KJV Translation: And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.
Keywords: PERSECUTION
Description: John 5:16
NET Translation: Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.
DARBY Translation: And for this the Jews persecuted Jesus [and sought to kill him], because he had done these things on sabbath.
KJV Translation: And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
Verse Intro: Jesus Responds to Leaders - Authority of the Son Working on the Father's Behalf
Keywords: FEASTS,GALILEE,JERUSALEM,PERSECUTION
Description: John 7:1
NET Translation: After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He stayed out of Judea because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him.
DARBY Translation: And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for he would not walk in Judaea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
KJV Translation: After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.
Verse Intro: Jesus Returns to Minister Throughout Galilee
Keywords: PERSECUTION,REPROOF
Description: John 7:7
NET Translation: The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.
DARBY Translation: The world cannot hate you, but me it hates, because I bear witness concerning it that its works are evil.
KJV Translation: “The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.”
Keywords: HYPOCRISY,PERSECUTION
Description: John 7:19
NET Translation: Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?”
DARBY Translation: Has not Moses given you the law, and no one of you practises the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?
KJV Translation: “Did not Moses give you the law, and” [yet] “none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?”
Keywords: DEMONS,PERSECUTION
Description: John 7:20
NET Translation: The crowd answered, “You’re possessed by a demon! Who is trying to kill you?”
DARBY Translation: The crowd answered [and said], Thou hast a demon: who seeks to kill thee?
KJV Translation: The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil: who goeth about to kill thee?
Keywords: PERSECUTION
Description: John 7:30
NET Translation: So then they tried to seize Jesus, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.
DARBY Translation: They sought therefore to take him; and no one laid his hand upon him, because his hour had not yet come.
KJV Translation: Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.
Keywords: PERSECUTION
Description: John 7:32
NET Translation: The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about Jesus, so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
DARBY Translation: The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things concerning him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers that they might take him.
KJV Translation: The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.
Verse Intro: Officers Sent to Arrest Jesus
Keywords: PERSECUTION,WORD OF GOD
Description: John 8:37
NET Translation: I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.
DARBY Translation: I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my wordD7555 has no entrance in you.
KJV Translation: “I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.”
Keywords: JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION
Description: John 8:40
NET Translation: But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!
DARBY Translation: but now ye seek to kill me, a man who has spoken the truth to you, which I have heard from God: this did not Abraham.
KJV Translation: “But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.”
Keywords: DEMONS,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION,SLANDER
Description: John 8:48
NET Translation: The Judeans replied, “Aren’t we correct in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?”
DARBY Translation: The Jews answered and said to him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan and hast a demon?
KJV Translation: Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
Keywords: BLINDNESS,PERSECUTION,SLANDER,UNBELIEF
Description: John 8:52
NET Translation: Then the Judeans responded, “Now we know you’re possessed by a demon! Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet you say, ‘If anyone obeys my teaching, he will never experience death.’
DARBY Translation: The Jews therefore said to him, Now we know that thou hast a demon. Abraham has died, and the prophets, and thou sayest, If any one keep my word, he shall neverD7564 taste death.
KJV Translation: Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.
Keywords: PERSECUTION
Description: John 8:59
NET Translation: Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden from them and went out from the temple area.
DARBY Translation: They took up therefore stones that they might cast [them] at him; but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple, [going through the midst of them, and thus passed on.]
KJV Translation: Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
Keywords: CHURCH,CONFESSION,COWARDICE,PUBLIC OPINION,PERSECUTION,SYNAGOGUE
Description: John 9:22
NET Translation: (His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.
DARBY Translation: His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if any one confessed him [to be the] Christ, he should be excommunicated from the synagogue.
KJV Translation: These [words] spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
Keywords: BIGOTRY,CHURCH,PERSECUTION,SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS,SYNAGOGUE
Description: John 9:34
NET Translation: They replied, “You were born completely in sinfulness, and yet you presume to teach us?” So they threw him out.
DARBY Translation: They answered and said to him, Thou hast been wholly born in sins, and thou teachest us? And they cast him out.
KJV Translation: They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him outK6723.
Keywords: DEMONS,INSANITY,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION,SLANDER
Description: John 10:20
NET Translation: Many of them were saying, “He is possessed by a demon and has lost his mind! Why do you listen to him?”
DARBY Translation: but many of them said, He has a demon and raves; why do ye hear him?
KJV Translation: And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
Keywords: PERSECUTION
Description: John 10:31
NET Translation: The Jewish leaders picked up rocks again to stone him to death.
DARBY Translation: The Jews therefore again took stones that they might stone him.
KJV Translation: Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
Keywords: BETHABARA,PERSECUTION
Description: John 10:39
NET Translation: Then they attempted again to seize him, but he escaped their clutches.
DARBY Translation: They sought therefore again to take him; and he went away from out of their hand
KJV Translation: Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,
Keywords: PERSECUTION
Description: John 11:57
NET Translation: (Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so that they could arrest him.)
DARBY Translation: Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given commandment that if any one knew where he was,D7582 he should make it known, that they might take him.
KJV Translation: Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew [it], that they might take him.
Keywords: LAZARUS,MIRACLES,PERSECUTION
Description: John 12:10
NET Translation: So the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus too,
DARBY Translation: But the chief priests took counsel that they might kill Lazarus also,
KJV Translation: But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;
Keywords: CONFESSION,COWARDICE,INDECISION,JESUS THE CHRIST,PUBLIC OPINION,PERSECUTION,SYNAGOGUE
Description: John 12:42
NET Translation: Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue.
DARBY Translation: Although indeed from amonD7596g the rulers also many believed on him, but on account of the Pharisees did not confess [him], that they might not be put out of the synagogue:
KJV Translation: Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess [him], lest they should be put out of the synagogue:
Keywords: JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION,SATAN
Description: John 14:30
NET Translation: I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,
DARBY Translation: I will no longer speak much with you, for the ruler of the world comes, and in me he has nothing;
KJV Translation: “Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.”
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,HATRED,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION
Description: John 15:18
NET Translation: “If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.
DARBY Translation: If the world hate you, knowD7634 that it has hated me before you.
KJV Translation: “If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before” [it hated] “you.”
Verse Intro: The Hatred of the World
Keywords: HATRED,HOLINESS,PERSECUTION,PREDESTINATION,RIGHTEOUS,WORLDLINESS
Description: John 15:19
NET Translation: If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.
DARBY Translation: If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on account of this the world hates you.
KJV Translation: “If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.”
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,COMMANDMENTS,JESUS THE CHRIST,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,PERSECUTION
Description: John 15:20
NET Translation: Remember what I told you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too.
DARBY Translation: Remember the word which I said unto you, The bondmanD7635 is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep also yours.
KJV Translation: “Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.”
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,BLINDNESS,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,PERSECUTION
Description: John 15:21
NET Translation: But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.
DARBY Translation: But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they have not known him that sent me.
KJV Translation: “But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.”
Keywords: GOD,JESUS THE CHRIST,JUDGMENT,PERSECUTION,RESPONSIBILITY
Description: John 15:24
NET Translation: If I had not performed among them the miraculous deeds that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen the deeds and have hated both me and my Father.
DARBY Translation: If I had not done among them the works which no other one has done, they had not had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.
KJV Translation: “If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.”
Keywords: PERSECUTION,QUOTATIONS AND ALLUSIONS
Description: John 15:25
NET Translation: Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without reason.’
DARBY Translation: But that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, They hated me without a causeD7636.
KJV Translation: “But” [this cometh to pass], “that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.”
Keywords: JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION,TEMPTATION
Description: John 16:1
NET Translation: “I have told you all these things so that you will not fall away.
DARBY Translation: These things I have spoken unto you that ye may not be offendedD7639.
KJV Translation: “These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.”
Keywords: BLINDNESS,CHURCH,CONSCIENCE,IGNORANCE,PERSECUTION,SYNAGOGUE,TEMPTATION,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: John 16:2
NET Translation: They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.
DARBY Translation: They shall put you out of the synagogues; but the hour is coming that every one who kills you will think to render serviceD7640 to God;
KJV Translation: “They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.”
Keywords: HATRED,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION,WORD OF GOD
Description: John 17:14
NET Translation: I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
DARBY Translation: I have given them thy wordD7667, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
KJV Translation: “I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.”
Keywords: MALICE,PERSECUTION
Description: John 18:22
NET Translation: When Jesus had said this, one of the high priest’s officers who stood nearby struck him on the face and said, “Is that the way you answer the high priest?”
DARBY Translation: But as he said these things, one of the officers who stood by gave a blow on the face to Jesus, saying, Answerest thou the high priest thus?
KJV Translation: And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palmK6739of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so?
Keywords: MALICE,PERSECUTION
Description: John 18:23
NET Translation: Jesus replied, “If I have said something wrong, confirm what is wrong. But if I spoke correctly, why strike me?”
DARBY Translation: Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil; but if well, why smitest thou me?
KJV Translation: Jesus answered him, “If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me?”
Keywords: JERUSALEM,PERSECUTION
Description: John 18:29
NET Translation: So Pilate came outside to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”
DARBY Translation: Pilate therefore went out to them and said, What accusation do ye bring against this man?
KJV Translation: Pilate then went out unto them, and said, What accusation bring ye against this man?
Keywords: FALSE ACCUSATION,INDICTMENTS,PERSECUTION
Description: John 18:30
NET Translation: They replied, “If this man were not a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you.”
DARBY Translation: They answered and said to him, If this [man] were not an evildoer, we should not have delivered him up to thee.
KJV Translation: They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee.
Keywords: DEMAGOGISM,KING,PERSECUTION
Description: John 19:6
NET Translation: When the chief priests and their officers saw him, they shouted out, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” Pilate said, “You take him and crucify him! Certainly I find no reason for an accusation against him!”
DARBY Translation: When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him they cried out saying, Crucify, crucify [him]. Pilate says to them, Take him ye and crucify [him], for I find no fault in him.
KJV Translation: When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify [him], crucify [him]. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify [him]: for I find no fault in him.
Keywords: HYPOCRISY,IRONY,PERSECUTION,PRIEST,SARCASM
Description: John 19:15
NET Translation: Then they shouted out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate asked, “Shall I crucify your king?” The high priests replied, “We have no king except Caesar!”
DARBY Translation: But they cried out, Take [him] away, take [him] away, crucify him. Pilate says to them, Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.
KJV Translation: But they cried out, Away with [him], away with [him], crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.
Keywords: JESUS THE CHRIST,PEACE,PERSECUTION
Description: John 20:19
NET Translation: On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the disciples had gathered together and locked the doors of the place because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
DARBY Translation: When therefore it was evening on that day, which was the first [day] of the week, and the doors shut where the disciples were, through fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and says to them, Peace [be] to you.
KJV Translation: Then the same day at evening, being the first [day] of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, “Peace” [be] “unto you.”
Verse Intro: Jesus Appears to His Disciples
Keywords: BERNICE,CROSS,GOD,PERSECUTION,PREDESTINATION
Description: Acts 2:23
NET Translation: this man, who was handed over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you executed by nailing him to a cross at the hands of Gentiles.
DARBY Translation: him, given up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye, by [the] hand of lawless [men], have crucified and slain.
KJV Translation: Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
Keywords: JESUS THE CHRIST,MIRACLES,PERSECUTION,PONTIUS PILATE
Description: Acts 3:13
NET Translation: The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our forefathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and rejected in the presence of Pilate after he had decided to release him.
DARBY Translation: The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom *ye* delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when *he* had judged that he should be let go.
KJV Translation: The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let [him] go.
Keywords: CRIMINALS,PERSECUTION,PRISON
Description: Acts 4:3
NET Translation: So they seized them and put them in jail until the next day (for it was already evening).
DARBY Translation: and they laid hands on them, and put them in ward till the morrow; for it was already evening.
KJV Translation: And they laid hands on them, and put [them] in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.
Keywords: PERSECUTION
Description: Acts 4:16
NET Translation: saying, “What should we do with these men? For it is plain to all who live in Jerusalem that a notable miraculous sign has come about through them, and we cannot deny it.
DARBY Translation: saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed an evident sign has come to pass through their means is manifest to all that inhabit Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.
KJV Translation: Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them [is] manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny [it].
Keywords: ANOINTING,HEROD,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION,PONTIUS PILATE
Description: Acts 4:27
NET Translation: “For indeed both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together in this city against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,
DARBY Translation: For in truth against thy holy servant Jesus, whom thou hadst anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with [the] nations, and peoples of Israel, have been gathered together in this city
KJV Translation: For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
Keywords: ARREST,GOVERNMENT,IMPRISONMENT,PERSECUTION,PRISON
Description: Acts 5:18
NET Translation: They laid hands on the apostles and put them in a public jail.
DARBY Translation: and laid hands on the apostles and put them in the public prison.
KJV Translation: And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.
Keywords: CONSCIENCE,COURAGE,COURT,DUTY,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,OBEDIENCE,PERSECUTION,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: Acts 5:29
NET Translation: But Peter and the apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than people.
DARBY Translation: But Peter answering, and the apostles, said, God must be obeyed rather than men.
KJV Translation: Then Peter and the [other] apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Keywords: BEATING,PERSECUTION
Description: Acts 5:40
NET Translation: and they summoned the apostles and had them beaten. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them.
DARBY Translation: And they listened to his advice; and having called the apostles, they beat them, and enjoined them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and dismissed them.
KJV Translation: And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten [them], they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
Verse Intro: The Apostles Beaten and Released - Rejoice
Keywords: ALEXANDRIA,CILICIA,CYRENE,FREEDMEN,GOVERNMENT,GREECE,RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE,LIBERTINES,PERSECUTION,SERVANT,SYNAGOGUE
Description: Acts 6:9
NET Translation: But some men from the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, as well as some from Cilicia and the province of Asia, stood up and argued with Stephen.
DARBY Translation: And there arose up certain of those of the synagogue called of freedmenD7760, and of Cyrenians, and of Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen.
KJV Translation: Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called [the synagogue] of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.
Keywords: DEFENSE,JERUSALEM,PERSECUTION,PRIEST,SOLOMON,STEPHEN,COURT,GOVERNMENT,PLEADING
Description: Acts 7:1
NET Translation: Then the high priest said, “Are these things true?”
DARBY Translation: And the high priest said, Are these things then so?
KJV Translation: Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
Verse Intro: Stephen's Defence Before the Sanhedrin
Keywords: JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION
Description: Acts 7:52
NET Translation: Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold long ago the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become!
DARBY Translation: Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain those who announced beforehand concerning the coming of the Just One, of whom *ye* have now become deliverers up and murderers!
KJV Translation: Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
Keywords: CHURCH,RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE,JERUSALEM,PAUL,PERSECUTION,STEPHEN
Description: Acts 8:1
NET Translation: And Saul agreed completely with killing him. Now on that day a great PERSECUTION began against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were forced to scatter throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria.
DARBY Translation: And Saul was consenting to his being killed. And on that day there arose a great PERSECUTION against the assembly which was in Jerusalem, and all were scattered into the countries of Judaea and Samaria except the apostles.
KJV Translation: And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great PERSECUTION against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.
Verse Intro: Saul Begins PERSECUTION of the Church - Disciples Scatter
Keywords: PERSECUTION,PHILIP,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: Acts 8:4
NET Translation: Now those who had been forced to scatter went around proclaiming the good news of the word.
DARBY Translation: Those then that had been scattered went through [the countries] announcing the glad tidings of the word.
KJV Translation: Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word.
Verse Intro: Philip Proclaims Christ in Samaria
Keywords: DAMASCUS,HEART,PAUL,PERSECUTION,SYRIA
Description: Acts 9:1
NET Translation: Meanwhile Saul, still breathing out threats to murder the Lord’s disciples, went to the high priest
DARBY Translation: But Saul, still breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, came to the high priest
KJV Translation: And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
Verse Intro: The Conversion of Saul Near Damascus
Keywords: ANTIOCH,CYPRUS,JERUSALEM,PERSECUTION,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: Acts 11:19
NET Translation: Now those who had been scattered because of the PERSECUTION that took place over Stephen went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the message to no one but Jews.
DARBY Translation: They then who had been scattered abroad through the tribulation that took place on the occasion of Stephen, passed through [the country] to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one but to Jews alone.
KJV Translation: Now they which were scattered abroad upon the PERSECUTION that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.
Verse Intro: Barnabas and Saul Ministering to the Church at Antioch
Keywords: HEROD,JERUSALEM,PERSECUTION,RULERS
Description: Acts 12:1
NET Translation: About that time King Herod laid hands on some from the church to harm them.
DARBY Translation: At that time Herod the king laid his hands on some of those of the assembly to do them hurt,
KJV Translation: Now about that time Herod the king stretchedK6762forth [his] hands to vex certain of the church.
Verse Intro: James Killed and Peter Imprisoned by Herod
Keywords: BEHEADING,HOMICIDE,JAMES,KING,MARTYRDOM,PERSECUTION,PUNISHMENT
Description: Acts 12:2
NET Translation: He had James, the brother of John, executed with a sword.
DARBY Translation: and slew James, the brother of John, with the sword.
KJV Translation: And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.
Keywords: BLINDNESS,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION,PROPHECY,SABBATH,WORD OF GOD
Description: Acts 13:27
NET Translation: For the people who live in Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize him, and they fulfilled the sayings of the prophets that are read every Sabbath by condemning him.
DARBY Translation: for those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not having known him, have fulfilled also the voices of the prophets which are read on every sabbath, [by] judging [him].
KJV Translation: For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled [them] in condemning [him].
Keywords: RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE,PAUL
Description: Acts 13:50
NET Translation: But the Jews incited the God-fearing women of high social standing and the prominent men of the city, stirred up PERSECUTION against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their region.
DARBY Translation: But the Jews excited the women of the upper classes who were worshippersD7837, and the first people of the city, and raised a PERSECUTION against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their coasts.
KJV Translation: But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised PERSECUTION against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,DECISION,ICONIUM,PERSEVERANCE
Description: Acts 14:22
NET Translation: They strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying, “We must enter the kingdom of God through many PERSECUTIONs.”
DARBY Translation: establishing the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to abide in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.
KJV Translation: Confirming the souls of the disciples, [and] exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,PAUL
Description: Acts 20:23
NET Translation: except that the Holy Spirit warns me in town after town that imprisonment and PERSECUTIONs are waiting for me.
DARBY Translation: only that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city, saying that bonds and tribulations await me.
KJV Translation: Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide meK6787.
Keywords: PERSECUTION
Description: Acts 28:22
NET Translation: But we would like to hear from you what you think, for regarding this sect we know that people everywhere speak against it.”
DARBY Translation: But we begD7953 to hear of thee what thou thinkest, for as concerning this sect it is known to us that it is everywhere spoken against.
KJV Translation: But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,FELLOWSHIP,INHERITANCE,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION,SUFFERING
Description: Romans 8:17
NET Translation: And if children, then heirs (namely, heirs of God and also fellow heirs with Christ)—if indeed we suffer with him so we may also be glorified with him.
DARBY Translation: And if children, heirs also: heirs of God, and Christ's joint heirs; if indeed we suffer withD8080 [him], that we may also be glorified with [him].
KJV Translation: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with [him], that we may be also glorified together.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,FAITH,JESUS THE CHRIST,PAUL,PERSECUTION,RIGHTEOUS,SELF-DENIAL,TEMPTATION
Description: Romans 8:35
NET Translation: Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or PERSECUTION, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
DARBY Translation: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? tribulation or distress, or PERSECUTION, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
KJV Translation: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or PERSECUTION, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Keywords: GAMES,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,PAUL,PERSECUTION
Description: 1 Corinthians 4:9
NET Translation: For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to die, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.
DARBY Translation: For I think that God has set us the apostles for the last, as appointed to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
KJV Translation: For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacleK6895unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
Keywords: BENEFICENCE,LIBERALITY,MARTYRDOM,PERSECUTION,POOR,VANITY,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: 1 Corinthians 13:3
NET Translation: If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no benefit.
DARBY Translation: And if I shall dole out all my goods in food, and if I deliver up my body that I may be burned, but have not love, I profit nothing.
KJV Translation: And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,ASSURANCE,FAITH,PAUL,PERSECUTION,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: 2 Corinthians 4:8
NET Translation: We are experiencing trouble on every side, but are not crushed; we are perplexed, but not driven to despair;
DARBY Translation: every way afflicted, but not straitened; seeing no apparent issue, but our way not entirely shut up;
KJV Translation: [We are] troubled on every side, yet not distressed; [we are] perplexed, but not in despairK6963;
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,HOLY SPIRIT,LONGSUFFERING,LOVE,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,OBEDIENCE,PARADOX,PATIENCE,PAUL,PERSECUTION
Description: 2 Corinthians 6:4
NET Translation: But as God’s servants, we have commended ourselves in every way, with great endurance, in PERSECUTIONs, in difficulties, in distresses,
DARBY Translation: but in everything commending ourselves as God's ministers, in much enduranceD8440, in afflictions, in necessities, in straits,
KJV Translation: But in all [things] approvingK6968ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
Keywords: FASTING,PAUL,PERSECUTION,PRISONERS,STRIPES
Description: 2 Corinthians 6:5
NET Translation: in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in troubles, in sleepless nights, in hunger,
DARBY Translation: in stripes, in prisons, in riots, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,
KJV Translation: In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumultsK6969, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
Keywords: CHARACTER,PARADOX,PAUL,PERSECUTION,SLANDER,TRUTH
Description: 2 Corinthians 6:8
NET Translation: through glory and dishonor, through slander and praise; regarded as impostors, and yet true;
DARBY Translation: through glory and dishonour, through evil report and good report: as deceivers, and true;
KJV Translation: By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and [yet] true;
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,PAUL,PERSECUTION,PRISONERS,STRIPES
Description: 2 Corinthians 11:23
NET Translation: Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.
DARBY Translation: Are they ministersD8496 of Christ? (I speak as being beside myself) *I* above measure [so]D8497; in labours exceedingly abundant, in stripes to excess, in prisons exceedingly abundant, in deaths oft.
KJV Translation: Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I [am] more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
Keywords: FAITH,HAPPINESS,JOY,PARADOX,PAUL,PERSECUTION,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: 2 Corinthians 12:10
NET Translation: Therefore I am content with weaknesses, with insults, with troubles, with PERSECUTIONs and difficulties for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.
DARBY Translation: Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in PERSECUTIONs, in straits, for Christ: for when I am weak, then I am powerful.
KJV Translation: Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in PERSECUTIONs, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
Keywords: BIGOTRY,CHURCH,IGNORANCE,PAUL,PERSECUTION,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: Galatians 1:13
NET Translation: For you have heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I was savagely persecuting the church of God and trying to destroy it.
DARBY Translation: For ye have heard [what was] my conversationD8525 formerly in Judaism, that I excessively persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it;
KJV Translation: For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
Keywords: PERSECUTION,REGENERATION
Description: Galatians 4:29
NET Translation: But just as at that time the one born by natural descent persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so it is now.
DARBY Translation: But as then he that was born according to flesh persecuted him [that was born] according to Spirit, so also [it is] now.
KJV Translation: But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him [that was born] after the Spirit, even so [it is] now.
Keywords: CROSS,CRUCIFIXION,PAUL,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: Galatians 5:11
NET Translation: Now, brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.
DARBY Translation: But *I*, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why am I yet persecuted? Then the scandal of the cross has been done away.
KJV Translation: And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer PERSECUTION? then is the offence of the cross ceased.
Keywords: CIRCUMCISION,COWARDICE,DIPLOMACY,PUBLIC OPINION,PERSECUTION
Description: Galatians 6:12
NET Translation: Those who want to make a good showing in external matters are trying to force you to be circumcised. They do so only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.
DARBY Translation: As many as desire to have a fair appearance in [the] flesh, these compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not be persecuted because ofD8598 the cross of Christ.
KJV Translation: As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer PERSECUTION for the cross of Christ.
Keywords: MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,PAUL,PERSECUTION
Description: Galatians 6:17
NET Translation: From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear the marks of Jesus on my body.
DARBY Translation: For the rest let no one trouble me, for *I* bear in my body the brands of the Lord Jesus.
KJV Translation: From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,GOD,PERSECUTION,ROME,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: Philippians 1:12
NET Translation: I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that my situation has actually turned out to advance the gospel:
DARBY Translation: But I would have you know, brethren, that the circumstances in which I am have turned out rather to the furtherance of the glad tidings,
KJV Translation: But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things [which happened] unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;
Verse Intro: Paul Ministers the Gospel as a Prisoner
Keywords: COMMANDMENTS,COURAGE,PERSECUTION,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: Philippians 1:28
NET Translation: and by not being intimidated in any way by your opponents. This is a sign of their destruction, but of your salvation—a sign which is from God.
DARBY Translation: and not frightened in anything by the opposers, which is to them a demonstration of destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God;
KJV Translation: And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,GIFTS FROM GOD,PERSECUTION,SUFFERING
Description: Philippians 1:29
NET Translation: For it has been granted to you not only to believe in Christ but also to suffer for him,
DARBY Translation: because to you has been given, as regards ChristD8688, not only the believing on him but the suffering for him also,
KJV Translation: For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;
Keywords: CHURCH,JESUS THE CHRIST,LOVE,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,PAUL,PERSECUTION,SUFFERING,TEMPLE,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: Colossians 1:24
NET Translation: Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body—for the sake of his body, the church—what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.
DARBY Translation: NowD8747, I rejoice in sufferings for you, and I fill upD8748 that which is behind of the tribulations of Christ in my flesh, for his body, which is the assembly;
KJV Translation: Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
Keywords: EXAMPLE,FAITH,HOLY SPIRIT,JESUS THE CHRIST,JOY,PERSECUTION,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: 1 Thessalonians 1:6
NET Translation: And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, when you received the message with joy that comes from the Holy Spirit, despite great affliction.
DARBY Translation: and *ye* became our imitators, and of the Lord, having accepted the word in much tribulation with joy of [the] Holy Spirit,
KJV Translation: And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
Keywords: PAUL,PERSECUTION,PHILIPPI,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: 1 Thessalonians 2:2
NET Translation: But although we suffered earlier and were mistreated in Philippi, as you know, we had the courage in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in spite of much opposition.
DARBY Translation: but, having suffered before and been insulted, even as ye know, in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the glad tidings of God with much earnest striving.
KJV Translation: But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.
Keywords: CHURCH,PAUL,PERSECUTION
Description: 1 Thessalonians 2:14
NET Translation: For you became imitators, brothers and sisters, of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you too suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they in fact did from the Jews,
DARBY Translation: For *ye*, brethren, have become imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; for *ye* also have suffered the same things of your own countrymen as also *they* of the Jews,
KJV Translation: For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they [have] of the Jews:
Keywords: BIGOTRY,CHURCH,MARTYRDOM,PAUL,PERSECUTION,PROPHETS
Description: 1 Thessalonians 2:15
NET Translation: who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us severely. They are displeasing to God and are opposed to all people,
DARBY Translation: who have both slain the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and have driven us out by PERSECUTION, and do not please God, and [are] against all men,
KJV Translation: Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted usK7081; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,FAITH,GOD,LOVE,MEEKNESS,PATIENCE,PERSECUTION,RESIGNATION,SUFFERING
Description: 2 Thessalonians 1:4
NET Translation: As a result we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in all the PERSECUTIONs and afflictions you are enduring.
DARBY Translation: so that we ourselves make our boast in you in the assemblies of God for your endurance and faith in all your PERSECUTIONs and tribulations, which ye are sustaining;
KJV Translation: So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your PERSECUTIONs and tribulations that ye endure:
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,RIGHTEOUS,SUFFERING,WICKED (PEOPLE)
Description: 2 Thessalonians 1:5
NET Translation: This is evidence of God’s righteous judgment, to make you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which in fact you are suffering.
DARBY Translation: a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that ye should be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for the sake of which ye also suffer;
KJV Translation: [Which is] a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
Verse Intro: Encouragment in PERSECUTION - The Lord will Come to Judge
Keywords: BACKSLIDERS,LOVE,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,PERSECUTION,POWER,TESTIMONY
Description: 2 Timothy 1:8
NET Translation: So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me, a prisoner for his sake, but by God’s power accept your share of suffering for the gospel.
DARBY Translation: Be not therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but suffer evil along with the glad tidingsD8900, according to the power of God;
KJV Translation: Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
Keywords: ASSURANCE,FAITH,JESUS THE CHRIST,PAUL,PERSECUTION,PERSEVERANCE,POWER,RIGHTEOUS,TESTIMONY
Description: 2 Timothy 1:12
NET Translation: Because of this, in fact, I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, because I know the one in whom my faith is set and I am convinced that he is able to protect what has been entrusted to me until that day.
DARBY Translation: For which cause also I suffer these things; but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believedD8902, and am persuaded that he is able to keep for that day the deposit I have entrusted to him.
KJV Translation: For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believedK7131, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
Keywords: MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,PAUL,PERSECUTION,WORD OF GOD,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: 2 Timothy 2:9
NET Translation: for which I suffer hardship to the point of imprisonment as a criminal, but God’s message is not imprisoned!
DARBY Translation: in which I suffer even unto bonds as an evil-doer: but the word of God is not bound.
KJV Translation: Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, [even] unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
Keywords: BLASPHEMY,CHARACTER,CHILDREN,COMMANDMENTS,COVETOUSNESS,FELLOWSHIP,INGRATITUDE,PERSECUTION,PRIDE,SELFISHNESS,WICKED (PEOPLE),WORLDLINESS
Description: 2 Timothy 3:2
NET Translation: For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
DARBY Translation: for men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, evil speakers, disobedient to parents, ungratefulD8921, profane,
KJV Translation: For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Keywords: FALSE ACCUSATION,AFFECTIONS,CHARACTER,PERSECUTION
Description: 2 Timothy 3:3
NET Translation: unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good,
DARBY Translation: without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is goodD8922,
KJV Translation: Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusersK7139, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,ANTIOCH,ICONIUM,LYSTRA,PAUL,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: 2 Timothy 3:11
NET Translation: as well as the PERSECUTIONs and sufferings that happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, and in Lystra. I endured these PERSECUTIONs and the Lord delivered me from them all.
DARBY Translation: PERSECUTIONs, sufferings: what [sufferings] happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what PERSECUTIONs I endured; and the Lord delivered me out of all.
KJV Translation: PERSECUTIONs, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what PERSECUTIONs I endured: but out of [them] all the Lord delivered me.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,PAUL,PERSECUTION
Description: 2 Timothy 3:12
NET Translation: Now in fact all who want to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
DARBY Translation: And all indeed who desire to live piously in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
KJV Translation: Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer PERSECUTION.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,COWARDICE,FRIENDSHIP,INTERCESSION,MEEKNESS,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,PAUL,PERSECUTION,PRISONERS
Description: 2 Timothy 4:16
NET Translation: At my first defense no one appeared in my support; instead they all deserted me—may they not be held accountable for it.
DARBY Translation: At my first defence no man stood with me, but all deserted me. May it not be imputed to them.
KJV Translation: At my first answer no man stood with me, but all [men] forsook me: [I pray God] that it may not be laid to their charge.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,LION,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,PAUL,PERSECUTION,POWER,WAR
Description: 2 Timothy 4:17
NET Translation: But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed for all the Gentiles to hear. And so I was delivered from the lion’s mouth!
DARBY Translation: But the Lord stood with [me], and gave me power, that through me the proclamation might be fully made, and all [those of] the nations should hear; and I was delivered out of the lion's mouth.
KJV Translation: Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and [that] all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
Keywords: FIGHT OF FAITH,PERSECUTION
Description: Hebrews 10:32
NET Translation: But remember the former days when you endured a harsh conflict of suffering after you were enlightened.
DARBY Translation: But call to mind the earlier days in which, having been enlightened, ye endured much conflict of sufferings;
KJV Translation: But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
Keywords: AMUSEMENTS AND WORLDLY PLEASURES,FAITH,PERSECUTION,PLEASURE,SELF-DENIAL
Description: Hebrews 11:25
NET Translation: choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin’s fleeting pleasure.
DARBY Translation: choosingD9127 rather to suffer affliction along with the people of God than to have [the] temporary pleasure of sin;
KJV Translation: Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
Keywords: FAITH,LION,PERSECUTION,WAR
Description: Hebrews 11:33
NET Translation: Through faith they conquered kingdoms, administered justice, gained what was promised, shut the mouths of lions,
DARBY Translation: who by faith overcame kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promisesD9132, stopped lions' mouths,
KJV Translation: Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
Keywords: CROSS,EXAMPLE,FAITH,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION,RACE,REWARD,SHAME,THRONE
Description: Hebrews 12:2
NET Translation: keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the joy set out for him he endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
DARBY Translation: looking stedfastlyD9137 on Jesus the leaderD9138 and completer of faith: who, in view of the joy lying before him, endured [the] cross, having despised [the] shame, and is set downD9139 at the right hand of the throne of God.
KJV Translation: Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,EXAMPLE,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION,RESIGNATION,TEMPTATION
Description: Hebrews 12:3
NET Translation: Think of him who endured such opposition against himself by sinners, so that you may not grow weary in your souls and give up.
DARBY Translation: For consider wellD9140 him who endured so great contradiction from sinners against himself, that ye be not weary, fainting in your minds.
KJV Translation: For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
Keywords: PERSECUTION,TEMPTATION
Description: Hebrews 12:4
NET Translation: You have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed in your struggle against sin.
DARBY Translation: Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, wrestling against sin.
KJV Translation: Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
Keywords: DECISION,PERSECUTION,PERSEVERANCE,SELF-DENIAL,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: Hebrews 13:13
NET Translation: We must go out to him, then, outside the camp, bearing the abuse he experienced.
DARBY Translation: therefore let us go forth to him without the camp, bearing his reproach:
KJV Translation: Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
Keywords: PERSECUTION,TIMOTHY
Description: Hebrews 13:23
NET Translation: You should know that our brother Timothy has been released. If he comes soon, he will be with me when I see you.
DARBY Translation: Know that our brother Timotheus is set at liberty; with whom, if he should come soonD9173, I will see you.
KJV Translation: Know ye that [our] brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.
Keywords: OPPRESSION,PERSECUTION,POOR,RICHES,RULERS
Description: James 2:6
NET Translation: But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?
DARBY Translation: But *ye* have despised the poor [man]. Do not the rich oppress you, and [do not] *they* drag you before [the] tribunals?
KJV Translation: But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
Keywords: PERSECUTION
Description: James 5:6
NET Translation: You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, although he does not resist you.
DARBY Translation: ye have condemned, ye have killed the just; he does not resist you.
KJV Translation: Ye have condemned [and] killed the just; [and] he doth not resist you.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,EXAMPLE,MINISTER,CHRISTIAN,PATIENCE,PERSECUTION,PERSEVERANCE,PROPHETS,SUFFERING
Description: James 5:10
NET Translation: As an example of suffering and patience, brothers and sisters, take the prophets who spoke in the Lord’s name.
DARBY Translation: Take [as] an example, brethren, of suffering and having patienceD9215, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of [the] Lord.
KJV Translation: Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
Keywords: HAPPINESS,PERSECUTION,QUOTATIONS AND ALLUSIONS,RIGHTEOUSNESS
Description: 1 Peter 3:14
NET Translation: But in fact, if you happen to suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. But do not be terrified of them or be shaken.
DARBY Translation: But if also ye should suffer for righteousness' sake, blessed [are ye]; but be not afraid of their fear, neither be troubled;
KJV Translation: But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy [are ye]: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
Keywords: CONSCIENCE,FALSEHOOD,INFLUENCE,INTEGRITY,PERSECUTION,SLANDER,SPEAKING
Description: 1 Peter 3:16
NET Translation: Yet do it with courtesy and respect, keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you.
DARBY Translation: having a good conscience, that [as to that] in whichD9272 they speak against you as evildoers, they may be ashamed who calumniate your good conversationD9273 in Christ.
KJV Translation: Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
Keywords: EXAMPLE,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION
Description: 1 Peter 3:17
NET Translation: For it is better to suffer for doing good, if God wills it, than for doing evil.
DARBY Translation: For [it is] better, if the will of God should will it, to suffer [as] well-doers than [as] evildoers;
KJV Translation: For [it is] better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
Keywords: COMMANDMENTS,EXAMPLE,HOLINESS,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION,RIGHTEOUS,SELF-DENIAL,SINLESSNESS,SUFFERING
Description: 1 Peter 4:1
NET Translation: So, since Christ suffered in the flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same attitude, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin,
DARBY Translation: Christ, then, having suffered for us in [the] flesh, do *ye* also arm yourselves with the same mind; for he that has suffered in [the] flesh has done with sin,
KJV Translation: Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
Keywords: ADULTERY,AMUSEMENTS AND WORLDLY PLEASURES,GENTILES,GLUTTONY,IDOLATRY,LASCIVIOUSNESS,LUST,PERSECUTION,SIN,WORLDLINESS
Description: 1 Peter 4:3
NET Translation: For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians desire. You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wanton idolatries.
DARBY Translation: For the time past [is] sufficient [for us] to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, walking in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-drinking, revels, drinkings, and unhallowed idolatries.
KJV Translation: For the time past of [our] life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
Keywords: ADULTERY,AMUSEMENTS AND WORLDLY PLEASURES,GENTILES,IDOLATRY,PERSECUTION,SLANDER,WORLDLINESS
Description: 1 Peter 4:4
NET Translation: So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.
DARBY Translation: Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] to the same sink of corruptionD9281, speaking injuriously [of you];
KJV Translation: Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [you]:
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,CONSTANCY,HAPPINESS,PERSECUTION,RESIGNATION,TEMPTATION
Description: 1 Peter 4:12
NET Translation: Dear friends, do not be astonished that a trial by fire is occurring among you, as though something strange were happening to you.
DARBY Translation: Beloved, take not [as] strange the fire [of PERSECUTION] which has taken place amongst you for [your] trial, as if a strange thing was happening to you;
KJV Translation: Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
Keywords: CHRISTIAN,GLORIFYING GOD,PERSECUTION
Description: 1 Peter 4:16
NET Translation: But if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but glorify God that you bear such a name.
DARBY Translation: but if as a christian, let him not be ashamed, but glorify God in this name.
KJV Translation: Yet if [any man suffer] as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,GOD,PERSECUTION,RESIGNATION
Description: 1 Peter 4:19
NET Translation: So then let those who suffer according to the will of God entrust their souls to a faithful Creator as they do good.
DARBY Translation: Wherefore also let them who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls in well-doing to a faithful Creator.
KJV Translation: Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls [to him] in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
Keywords: CHURCH,ADOPTION,BLINDNESS,GOD,IMAGE,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION
Description: 1 John 3:1
NET Translation: (See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children—and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.
DARBY Translation: See what love the Father has given to us, that we should be called [the] childrenD9373 of God. For this reason the world knows us not, because it knew him not.
KJV Translation: Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
Keywords: ABEL,CAIN,HOMICIDE,MOTIVE,PERSECUTION,SATAN
Description: 1 John 3:12
NET Translation: not like Cain who was of the evil one and brutally murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.
DARBY Translation: not as Cain was of the wicked one, and slew his brother; and on account of what slew he him? because his works were wicked, and those of his brother righteous.
KJV Translation: Not as Cain, [who] was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
Keywords: HATRED,MALICE,PERSECUTION
Description: 1 John 3:13
NET Translation: Therefore do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.
DARBY Translation: Do not wonder, brethren, if the world hate you.
KJV Translation: Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
Keywords: BANISHMENT,GOD,HUMILITY,JOHN,PATIENCE,PATMOS,PERSECUTION
Description: Revelation 1:9
NET Translation: I, John, your brother and the one who shares with you in the PERSECUTION, kingdom, and endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony about Jesus.
DARBY Translation: I John, your brother and fellow-partaker in the tribulation and kingdom and patienceD9445, in Jesus, wasD9446 in the island called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus.
KJV Translation: I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Verse Intro: John's Introductory Vision of the Lord to the Seven Churches
Keywords: DECISION,PATIENCE,PERSECUTION,RIGHTEOUSNESS,RELIGIOUS ZEAL
Description: Revelation 2:3
NET Translation: I am also aware that you have persisted steadfastly, endured much for the sake of my name, and have not grown weary.
DARBY Translation: and endurest, and hast borne for my name's sake, and hast not wearied:
KJV Translation: “And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.”
Keywords: ANGEL OF THE CHURCHES,CHURCH,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION,SMYRNA
Description: Revelation 2:8
NET Translation: “To the angel of the church in Smyrna write the following: “This is the solemn pronouncement of the one who is the first and the last, the one who was dead, but came to life:
DARBY Translation: And to the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: These things says the first and the last, who becameD9459 dead, and livedD9460:
KJV Translation: “And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;”
Verse Intro: The Church in Smyrna
Keywords: AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES,BLESSING,CROWN,DECISION,FAITHFULNESS,HEART,PERSECUTION,PERSEVERANCE,PROPHECY,REWARD,RIGHTEOUS,SATAN
Description: Revelation 2:10
NET Translation: Do not be afraid of the things you are about to suffer. The devil is about to have some of you thrown into prison so you may be tested, and you will experience suffering for ten days. Remain faithful even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown that is life itself.
DARBY Translation: Fear nothing [of] what thou art about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of life.
KJV Translation: “Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast” [some] “of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.”
Keywords: ANTIPAS,CHURCH,PERSECUTION,SATAN
Description: Revelation 2:13
NET Translation: ‘I know where you live—where Satan’s throne is. Yet you continue to cling to my name and you have not denied your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was killed in your city where Satan lives.
DARBY Translation: I know where thou dwellest, where the throne of Satan [is]; and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in the days in which Antipas my faithful witness [was], who was slain among you, where Satan dwells.
KJV Translation: “I know thy works, and where thou dwellest,” [even] “where Satan's seat” [is]: “and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas” [was] “my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.”
Keywords: MARTYRDOM,PERSECUTION
Description: Revelation 6:9
NET Translation: Now when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been violently killed because of the word of God and because of the testimony they had given.
DARBY Translation: And when it opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of them that had been slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held;
KJV Translation: And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
Keywords: COLORS,ELDER,HEAVEN,PERSECUTION,ROBE
Description: Revelation 7:13
NET Translation: Then one of the elders asked me, “These dressed in long white robes—who are they and where have they come from?”
DARBY Translation: And one of the elders answered, saying to me, These who are clothed with white robes, who are they, and whence came they?
KJV Translation: And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
Keywords: ATONEMENT,BLOOD,JESUS THE CHRIST,LAMB OF GOD,MARTYRDOM,PERSECUTION,SELF-DENIAL,TEMPTATION,TESTIMONY,WAR
Description: Revelation 12:11
NET Translation: But they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die.
DARBY Translation: and *they* have overcome him by reason of the blood of the Lamb, and by reason of the word of their testimony, and have not loved their life even unto death.
KJV Translation: And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Keywords: MARTYRDOM,PERSECUTION
Description: Revelation 17:6
NET Translation: I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of those who testified to Jesus. I was greatly astounded when I saw her.
DARBY Translation: And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And I wondered, seeing her, with great wonder.
KJV Translation: And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
Keywords: ANIMALS,BEHEADING,CHURCH,JESUS THE CHRIST,PERSECUTION,RESURRECTION,RIGHTEOUS
Description: Revelation 20:4
NET Translation: Then I saw thrones and seated on them were those who had been given authority to judge. I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. These had not worshiped the beast or his image and had refused to receive his mark on their forehead or hand. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
DARBY Translation: And I saw thrones; and they satD9634 upon them, and judgment was given to them; and the souls of those beheaded on account of the testimony of Jesus, and on account of the word of God; and those whoD9635 had not done homageD9636 to the beast nor to his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and handD9637; and they lived and reigned with the Christ a thousand years:
KJV Translation: And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and [I saw] the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received [his] mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.