What have I done to my cousin,' he exclaimed, 'that he should so persecute me?
In vain will despotism dread or persecute men of genius; all its efforts cannot put out the light of truth; and the sentence it awards against the injustice of men in power shall be confirmed by indignant posterity.
Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Then why do these Saxon and Celtic societies persecute an Arabian race, from whom they have adopted laws of sublime benevolence, and in the pages of whose literature they have found perpetual delight, instruction, and consolation?
And yet they persecute the Jews, and hold up to odium the race to whom they are indebted for the sublime legislation which alleviates the inevitable lot of the labouring multitude!
You will not let them persecute us, as they did a few years back, because they said we crucified their children at the feast of our passover?
We have saved the human race, and youpersecute us for doing it.
The record of its doings so far shows that, chiefly, it has been engaged in reaching conclusions that did not tally with actualities, and in leading its devotees topersecute those who accepted facts rather than its ultimatum.
Before he was converted, however, he might as readilypersecute St. James as St. Stephen.
It was thus that the Jesuit Letellier dared to persecute Cardinal de Noailles, and that Jurieu persecuted Bayle.
He ought to bestow his remedies on those who ask them of him, and avoid the company of quacks, who will infallibly persecute him.
Is this the vaunted freedom of the Gospel, to persecute and coerce others, to imprison them or drive them into exile?
But I say to you: Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you.
For they are no part of the body, or clean and healthy members, but merely the filth of squiredom, merd spattered on the sleeve and veritable ordure, for they persecute the true Evangel, well knowing it to be the Word of God.
The Mussulmans in general do not persecute men of other religions, when they have nothing to fear from them, unless in the case of an intercourse of gallantry with a Mahometan woman.
A similar method of taking revenge is still not infrequently resorted to by the Votyaks, who believe that the ghost of the deceased will thenpersecute the offender.
But he does not persecute anybody for the sake of his faith; nor does he believe in an intolerant and persecuting god.
Love your enemies; bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
Nor was it a religious motive only that induced Christian sovereigns to persecute heretics.
Y: But none believed in Moses except some children of his people, because of the fear of Pharaoh and his chiefs, lest they should persecute them; and certainly Pharaoh was mighty on the earth and one who transgressed all bounds.
S: But none believed in Musa except the offspring of his people, on account of the fear of Firon and their chiefs, lest he shouldpersecute them; and most surely Firon was lofty in the land; and most surely he was of the extravagant.
Why persecute ye me, when ye well know that I am Allah's messenger unto you?
If they have hated me they will hate you also; if they have persecuted me they will persecute you.
But I did not know that they had begun to persecute poor women;" and a shade of deep melancholy came over his fine features, as he thought of what might be the situation of Clemence de Marly.
But they have now stronger motives to persecute us.
God forgive my enemies," he said at length, "and the mistaken men who persecuteothers for their soul's sake.
Rome's contention is, not that she does not persecute, but only that she does not persecute saints.
The following are translations: "MARY, my mother, in thee I hope; save me from those that persecute me.
Behold, ere he is aware, he is left unto himself, to kick against the pricks; to persecute the saints; and to fight against God.
His vinegary daughter Charity out of the way, Pecksniff began topersecute Mary more and more.
Ralph Nickleby had never ceased to persecute Kate and her mother.
With this end in view, he began to persecute poor Mary with his attentions, squeezing her hand and throwing kisses to her when no one else was looking.
As he could not help showing that he did not like her, Miss Fanny grew spiteful and in revenge began to persecute Smike, knowing Nicholas liked him.
He will accuse an innocent man, and persecute him from one court of appeal to another, in order to get him into prison, and will demand a large sum of money as a reward for his ill-doing.
By that they mean that whatever they do must be overlooked, and that they should be left at liberty to propagate their doctrines, while they more or less secretly persecute the Christians.
Bless them which persecute you; bless, and curse not.
If they had persecuted me, they will also persecute you, was the warning of common sense.
They held forth in true colors the nature of the prosecution, the malignity of intention, and the apparent disposition of the prosecution to persecute their client, rather than to do him justice.
Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake.
But when they persecuteyou in this city, fly to another.
There is a malignant zeal, against the cause and servants of the Lord, which carrieth men to persecute them.
Art thou not bound to love them that hate thee, and curse, and persecute thee?
For such there are that mock at godliness, and persecute christians and ministers of Christ, and know not that they do ill; but think they do God service, John xvi.
Perron continued to persecute Casaubon with argument, whenever he met him in the king’s library.
In many places farmers persecute the hedgehog, and kill it whenever they have a chance of doing so.
The Governor of Alexandrovsk continued to persecute the Jews with relentless ferocity, and the kidnapping of their children was followed by other acts almost as cruel.
Let the people once enjoy freedom and they will cease to persecute the Hebrews, without whom they cannot exist.
Do not persecute me with your attentions, which are extremely distasteful to me.
It is not your sins which they persecute in you, but God's grace, and loyalty to King Jesus.
We can do little to resist them who persecute us and oppose Him, but keep our blood and our wounds to the next court-day, when our complaints shall be read.
The two holy fathers continued to hate, persecute and anathematize each other, until death settled the sanguinary controversy by the removal of Anaclitus.
They might persecute the Church just because the Church was patriotically Jewish.
If the disciples were nothing but Jews, why did the Jews persecute them?
More systematically than before, Rome had begun to persecute the Church of God.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "persecute" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
