Matthew 5:11

James Moffatt - New Testament

Blessed are you when men denounce you and persecute you and utter all manner of evil against you for my sake;

Cross References

1 Peter 4:14

If you are denounced for the sake of Christ, you are blessed; for then the Spirit of glory and power, the Spirit of God himself, is resting on you.

Luke 21:17

You will be hated by all on account of my name;

Mark 13:13

and you will be hated by all men on account of my name; but he will be saved who holds out to the very end.

Matthew 24:9

Then men will hand you over to suffer affliction, and they will kill you; you will be hated by all the Gentiles on account of my name.

Luke 6:22

Blessed are you when men will hate you, when they will excommunicate you and denounce you and defame you as wicked on account of the Son of man;

1 Peter 2:23

he was reviled and made no retort, he suffered and never threatened, but left everything to Him who judges justly;

John 15:21

They will do all this to you on account of my name, because they know not him who sent me.

Matthew 10:22

and you will be hated by all men on account of my name; but he will be saved who holds out to the very end.

Matthew 10:39

He who has found his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

Revelation 2:3

I know that you are enduring patiently and have borne up for my sake and have not wearied.

Matthew 19:29

Everyone who has left brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands or houses for my name's sake will get a hundred times as much and inherit life eternal.

2 Corinthians 4:11

every day of my life I am being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may come out within my mortal flesh.

1 Corinthians 4:10

We, for Christ's sake, are 'fools'; you in Christ are sensible. We are weak, you are strong; you are honoured, we are in disrepute.

Romans 8:36

(Because, as it is written, For thy sake we are being killed all the day long, we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.)

Luke 21:12

But before all that, men will lay hands on you and persecute you, handing you over to synagogues and prisons; you will be dragged before kings and governors for the sake of my name.

Luke 9:24

for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake, he will save it.

Mark 8:35

for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.

Matthew 10:25

enough for the scholar to fare like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If men have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they miscall his servants!

Acts 9:16

I will show him all he has to suffer for the sake of my Name."

Mark 13:9

Look to yourselves. Men will hand you over to Sanhedrins and you will be flogged in synagogues and brought before governors and kings for my sake, to testify to them.

Matthew 27:39

Those who passed by scoffed at him, nodding at him in derision

Mark 4:17

but they have no root in themselves, they do not last; the next thing is that when the word brings trouble or persecution, they are at once repelled.

Matthew 10:18

and you will be haled before governors and kings for my sake — it will be a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.

John 9:28

Then they stormed at him: "You are his disciple, we are disciples of Moses!

Philippians 1:29

For on behalf of Christ you have the favour of suffering no less than of believing in him,