Sentences with phrase «to suffer persecution»

For example, Janzen suggests that Joseph was not a spoiled brat, but one who suffered persecution in ways similar to Jeremiah and the Psalmists.

But Kitty, the Romans had posted guards... are you suggesting Christians, who would later suffer persecution by both the Romans and Jewish leadership in charge of the area, would be able to take the Roman guards out and then continue on with the lie all the while being persecuted?

(3) The teacher of righteousness, like Jesus, suffered persecution from his opponents.

Although I am not suffering persecution, I am in pain and face much more should the Lord tarry.

Happy are those who have suffered persecution for the causes of goodness for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.

While it is certainly true that Christians in many parts of the world suffer persecution, the same can not be said for those in America.

There are 200 million Christians across the world that are currently suffering persecution.

According to court documents, «in many cases the clients of the law firms had not actually suffered persecution in China.»

According to this letter, the Philadelphian Christians were suffering persecution at the hands of the local Jews, whom Revelation calls «the synagogue of Satan» (Revelation 3:9).

In PLO territories, Christian Arabs, who once had freedom under Israel, now suffer persecution, imprisonment, and death for their faith.

The Book of Revelation, on the other hand, produced by a community suffering persecution, took a less sanguine view of civil authority.

Preemptive Love Coalition — Helping provide clothing, housing, education and legal help for families suffering persecution.

These are individuals and their families who are unable to pay for a lawyer or to access free legal assistance — people facing the loss of their homes, suffering persecution by predatory lenders, seeking to keep custody of their children or escape the abuse of a family member, or looking to protect their very subsistence.

In I Peter 4:16 it is clearly possible to suffer persecution from the state as a Christian; in Revelation the possibility is an actuality.

Jews suffered certain legal civil disabilities in the colonies and in some of the later states and certain extralegal social disabilities in both, but they suffered no persecution until three years after the War.

In short, the Church would suffer persecution, just as Christ promised would happen.

So, 2nd Timothy 3:12 «Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.»

Should it have read «Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer NO persecution.»?

Muslims try to justify this early violence by claiming that mohammad and his followers «suffered persecution» at the hands of the Meccans in an earlier episode, in which mohammad was evicted from the city of Mecca and had to seek refuge at Medina.

12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

They say they «love Jesus» but, that love is compromised and only to a point that it means they truly have to be «separate» or «despised» or «suffer persecution» from The World.

Like many Protestants in the Mexican countryside, this pastor has suffered persecution.

Jesus was Gods own son, and he suffered persecution... we are no different.

From time to time they suffered persecution, and even martyrdom.

Recognize the barriers that some newcomers face to full participation, including the particular barriers faced by refugees who have suffered persecution and long years of deprivation.