PERSECUTION ANYONE?

2 TIMOTHY 3:12  … all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

JOHN 15:20  … The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; …

MATTHEW 23:33-34  33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? 34 … 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:

MATTHEW 10:18-22  18 And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles. 19 But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. … 22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

2 CORINTHIANS12:9-10  9 … My grace is sufficient for thee: … 10 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.

HEBREWS 12:2  Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, …