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    persecution


    1. Even in the midst of adversity and persecution, David does not cry out against it


    2. I rejoice that in pain there is comfort, in struggle there is ability to overcome, in persecution there is endurance, and in torture there is a crown


    3. She had never before felt the fear of persecution for having too much faith, and it was a much more terrifying fear than her fear that in Gordon’s Lamp she had too little


    4. persecution arises because of the word, by and by he is offended


    5. I had the sense that this represented a time of persecution and trial


    6. stripping of the bark is a time of testing, persecution, and


    7. midst of the persecution and tribulation of the end times”


    8. But should the sovereign attempt irregularly, and by violence, to deprive any number of clergymen of their freeholds, on account, perhaps, of their having propagated, with more than ordinary zeal, some factious or seditious doctrine, he would only render, by such persecution, both them and their doctrine ten times more popular, and therefore ten times more troublesome and dangerous, than they had been before


    9. It is, accordingly, in presbyterian countries only, that we ever find the common people converted, without persecution completely, and almost to a man, to the established church


    10. I cannot help wondering whether she would have been so worshipful, had she been required to spend even one night at the Lubyanka, under the not so tender ministrations of Stalin"s KGB, or was it the NKVD? She had a big thing about the so-called persecution of Blacks in America

    11. Would she have had sense enough to understand the persecution of virtually everyone in the Soviet Union? I doubt it


    12. With respect to the officers and crew…if the facts stated by Captain Waddell are true, there is clearly no case for any persecution on the ground of piracy in the courts of this country, and we presume that her Majesty’s government is not in possession of any evidence which could be produced before any court or magistrate for the purpose of contravening the statement or showing that the crime of piracy has, in fact, been committed…With respect to any persons on the Shenandoah who cannot immediately be proceeded against and


    13. demonstrated signs of timidity or caution as they otherwise relate to their relentless persecution of the ―Unborn


    14. Who can this anti-Communist hysteria, paranoia, and persecution of anything even vaguely suspicious be ascribed to? The architect of this fear mongering was at the very top


    15. “With your history of violence, and your history of mental illness, including a persecution complex, what with being all paranoid and delusional; we have to make certain types of assumptions,” the sergeant was explaining earnestly in a friendly, and non-judgmental fashion, and Bru just sat there drinking it all in


    16. Some fearfully changed their German names, anglicizing them to avoid persecution


    17. Today only a small fraction of German-Americans speak German, a legacy of the persecution of World War I and after


    18. These four nations all share in common that supposed genocide against whites looms large in the imaginations and fears of white racists, white supremacists, and other whites with persecution complexes


    19. In all four countries, there were or are either atrocities or political persecution


    20. Yet while this prosecution is also persecution, it is not deadly

    21. Private Mott of the 5th, was given fifty lashes and almost bled to death for, and I quote: ’Not being vigilant enough in the persecution of vile deeds that promoted sin, incurred the wrath of the Gods or were an affront to the Pantheon and the Ruling Council’


    22. Persecution now comes from different sources


    23. There are centuries of persecution, hurt and misunderstanding to be dealt with


    24. Proceeding from that event, the “Followers of the Way” struggled through seemingly endless torture and persecution until in approximately three hundred years (AD 30 to AD 325) a Roman general saw a vision that resulted in the permanent establishment of this new belief system


    25. Today we, here in the United States, observe the government in a modern reiteration of the old Roman attempt to reduce Christian influence even if only by a more subtle persecution meant to silence their witness to the superiority of The Way


    26. This liberality created rancor among the faithful who had borne the brunt of the whip of persecution as others had run for the cover of denial


    27. “Christians hear this!” someone had told me who had been there, and had heard him scream this, sometime in the beginning of the great persecution


    28. But honest history will record it [at least in its early part] as an attempt at restoration of stolen Christian/Roman lands and the relief of persecution of innocent pilgrims whose only wish was to visit the many shrines built during the many centuries of previous Christian occupancy


    29. The Crusades did lift the onus of persecution of Christian pilgrims for a time


    30. ” In those early times the latter were forced to recant their beliefs at the threat of their lives, mirroring the recantations of the early Christians as they faced death by persecution

    31. Christians in 1933 that escaped from persecution by the leading of


    32. Others said it was the declaration (December 11, ’41) and persecution of war on Germany by the U


    33. Inclusion and love is what should be taken from the bible, not many reasons for exclusion and persecution, this was never the original purpose or intention


    34. Thorns: A curse; something that hinders through trial; gossip; perverse occurrences; persecution; life’s cares and concerns; place of defense


    35. imagined, without tears, slander, pain or persecution


    36. 5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest


    37. He was arrested and imprisoned Jeremiah 20: 2; this persecution was predicted,


    38. The critical theorist scorns logic and reason as weapons of persecution wielded by “white male trash” designed for the “hegemonistic suppression” of females and minorities


    39. Among the denominations and sects in the American Colonies at the end of the Eighteenth century there was no shortage of intolerance or persecution of opposing sects


    40. Not mincing his words, Roger castigated Castro for his mismanagement of the Cuban economy through hit-and-miss policies, for his relentless persecution of people who dared to disagree with him, and for his ill-advised and damaging adventurism with Cuban soldiers into world conflicts thousands of miles away from Cuban soil

    41. settled down quietly on his paternal estate, and in all probability history would never have known his name if the intolerable persecution of a neighboring Polish squire, who stole his hayricks and flogged his infant son to death, had not converted the thrifty and acquisitive Cossack husbandman into one of the most striking and sinister figures of modern times


    42. 43 Also all those who fled for persecution joined themselves to them and were a stay to them


    43. Persecution of Christians happened everywhere around the world


    44. The Martyr Road symbolized the suffering, persecution, and death of a martyr


    45. " "About two thousand Christians also with Nicanor one of the seven deacons suffered martyrdom during the persecution that arose about Stephen"


    46. It was not until ten years after the death of Stephen that the second martyrdom took place; for no sooner had Herod Agrippa been appointed governor of Judea than with a view to ingratiate himself with them he raised a sharp persecution against the Christians and determined to make an effectual blow by striking at their leaders


    47. Apostle Paul (Apostle of Jesus Christ appointed after the Resurrection by Jesus) Paul the apostle who before was called Saul after his great travail and unspeakable labors in promoting the Gospel of Christ suffered also in this first persecution under Nero


    48. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word immediately he stumbles


    49. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word immediately they stumble


    50. Everyone who hears the word of the kingdom and understands it not the evil one comes and snatches away the word that has been sown in his heart and this is that which was sown on the middle of the highway; But that which was sown on the rocks is he who hears the word and straightway receives 45 it with joy; only it has no root in his soul but his belief in it is for a time; and whenever there is distress or persecution because of a word he stumbles quickly; And that which was sown among the thorns is he who hears the word; and the care of this world and the error of riches and the rest of the other lusts enter and choke the word and it becomes without fruit; And that which was sown in good ground is he who hears my word in a pure and good heart and understands it and holds to it and bring out fruit with patience and produce either a hundredfold or sixtyfold or thirty













































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    Synonyms for "persecution"

    persecution abuse mistreatment molestation torment ill-treatment killing subjugation tyranny suppression extermination exile expulsion

    "persecution" definitions

    the act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion)