Word Forms
These forms come from “persecution” and change to fit the sentence.
- persecutionbase form
- persecutionsplural
persecution
WEB 12 appearances
KJV 15 appearances
Persecution means hurting or treating people badly because of what they believe.
Biblical Usage
In the Bible, this word is used when bad people hurt those who follow God. Evil leaders and groups tried to stop God's people from sharing the good news. Jesus told His followers that people might hurt them for obeying Him.
WEB Representative Scriptures
who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained.Isaiah 14:6 (WEB)
They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.Mark 4:17 (WEB)
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?Romans 8:35 (WEB)
KJV Representative Scriptures
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?Romans 8:35 (KJV)
And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.Galatians 5:11 (KJV)
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.2 Timothy 3:11 (KJV)