Matthew 5:11

New American Bible - revised edition

Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you [falsely] because of me.

Cross References

Psalm 35:11

Malicious witnesses rise up, accuse me of things I do not know.

Psalm 44:22

Would not God have discovered this, God who knows the secrets of the heart?

Isaiah 25:8

He will destroy death forever. The Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces; The reproach of his people he will remove from the whole earth; for the Lord has spoken.

Isaiah 51:7

Hear me, you who know justice, you people who have my teaching at heart: Do not fear the reproach of others; remain firm at their revilings.

Isaiah 66:5

Hear the word of the Lord, you who tremble at his word! Your kin who hate you and cast you out because of my name say, “May the Lord show his glory, that we may see your joy”; but they shall be put to shame.

Jeremiah 37:14

“That is a lie!” Jeremiah answered, “I am not deserting to the Chaldeans.” Without listening to him, Irijah kept Jeremiah in custody and brought him to the princes.

Matthew 10:18

and you will be led before governors and kings for my sake as a witness before them and the pagans.

Matthew 10:22

You will be hated by all because of my name, but whoever endures to the end will be saved.

Matthew 10:25

It is enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher, for the slave that he become like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household! Courage Under Persecution.

Matthew 10:39

Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. Rewards.

Matthew 19:29

And everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for the sake of my name will receive a hundred times more, and will inherit eternal life.

Matthew 24:9

Then they will hand you over to persecution, and they will kill you. You will be hated by all nations because of my name.

Matthew 27:39

Those passing by reviled him, shaking their heads

Mark 13:13

You will be hated by all because of my name. But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved. The Great Tribulation.

Mark 13:9

“Watch out for yourselves. They will hand you over to the courts. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will be arraigned before governors and kings because of me, as a witness before them.

Mark 4:17

But they have no root; they last only for a time. Then when tribulation or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.

Mark 8:35

For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and that of the gospel will save it.

Luke 21:12

“Before all this happens, however, they will seize and persecute you, they will hand you over to the synagogues and to prisons, and they will have you led before kings and governors because of my name.

Luke 21:17

You will be hated by all because of my name,

Luke 6:22

Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude and insult you, and denounce your name as evil on account of the Son of Man.

Luke 9:24

For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.

John 15:21

And they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

John 9:28

They ridiculed him and said, “You are that man’s disciple; we are disciples of Moses!

Acts 9:16

and I will show him what he will have to suffer for my name.”

Romans 8:36

As it is written: “For your sake we are being slain all the day; we are looked upon as sheep to be slaughtered.”

1 Corinthians 4:10

We are fools on Christ’s account, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are held in honor, but we in disrepute.

2 Corinthians 4:11

For we who live are constantly being given up to death for the sake of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

Philippians 1:29

For to you has been granted, for the sake of Christ, not only to believe in him but also to suffer for him.

1 Peter 2:23

When he was insulted, he returned no insult; when he suffered, he did not threaten; instead, he handed himself over to the one who judges justly.

1 Peter 4:14

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.

Revelation 2:3

Moreover, you have endurance and have suffered for my name, and you have not grown weary.