So that we ourselves also glory in you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith, and in all your persecutions and tribulations: which you endure 1:5.
Persecutions, afflictions: such as came upon me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra: what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord delivered me.
The emperor Rodolph and his brother archdukes, by a long series ofpersecutions and banishment, finally, though not within this century, almost outrooted Protestantism from the hereditary provinces of Austria.
After more than twenty years of peace, there were cruel persecutions in some places, under the reign of Severus.
The conduct of these persecutions was in the hands of the Inquisition, which did its work without any regard to the rules of Justice, and was made more terrible by the darkness and mystery of its proceedings.
He distinctly told them to expect persecutions and tribulations.
At one time Jesus seemed to think his hearers might possibly misapprehend him, and he told them plainly that poverty, trouble, sorrow, persecutions in this world, awaited them if they followed him.
The treatment of him was ungenerous, and for a time the pettypersecutions that followed served rather to discredit the clergy than really to hinder the spread of Baptist principles.
Of the persecutions and oppressions which gave direct impulse to the earliest colonization of America, the most notable are the following: (1) the persecution of the English Puritans in the reigns of James I.
Cruel wars and persecutions accomplished a result in the advancement of the kingdom of Christ which the authors of them never intended.
It contained a frank confession of repentance for the persecutions of which the Boston churches had been guilty.
However singular these persecutions may appear, Mr. Robinson knows that they are not in the smallest degree exaggerated.
She would gaze upon his venerable but emaciated countenance with sensations of awe almost reverential, while the barbarous persecutions of the thoughtless crowd never failed to agonise her feelings.
It was bad enough to endure the taunts and persecutions of the Jews, and the unbelief and stubbornness of his eldest sons; but how very painful to witness the tears and deep grief of his wife, and to hear her make such accusations as these!
There is a pure and heavenly joy rests upon him that language cannot describe or express, and in the presence of which the afflictions which he has to endure, because of the persecutions of men, appear trifling and are easily borne.
Much the same considerations explain the absolute indifference with which so many good men witnessed those witch persecutions which consigned thousands of old, feeble and innocent women to torture and to death.
The persecutions which try the Church are of this kind.
The meekness, the gentleness, the calmness of his forgiving heart under trials the deepest, under persecutions the greatest, even unto death, are surely worthy of God incarnate.
In the next place he showed his love by the meekness and patience with which he bore the scoffs and sneers, and persecutions of the opposing Jews.
His attitude is strongly influenced by the persecutions of senators under Domitian, and is the expression of his personal animosity and that of the descendants of the older republican nobility towards the principate in general.
The Persian war which began in 421 as a result of persecutions of the Christians in Persia was brought to a victorious conclusion in the next year.
The expulsions of the Jews from Rome under Tiberius and Claudius were not religious persecutions but police measures taken for the maintenance of good order within the city.
The persecutionstried the church sorely, but it emerged triumphant from the ordeal.
Dealing with the fortunes of a pair of lovers involved in the persecutions in Germany during the Thirty Years' War.
Describes the experiences and persecutions of a high-minded Colonial lad by a bullying schoolfellow, who is at last driven to admit his transgressions.
This Father was a most diligent collector of all the documents that related to the history of the persecutions of Catholics in England.
He it was who had the management of all the searches and persecutions that the Catholics in the neighbourhood of London had to endure; and it was to him that the traitor had given his information.
These things* we again take, as in verses 1 and 5, to refer to the persecutionswhich He had predicted, and to the coming of the Holy Ghost after His departure.
Christ points out the violence of the persecutions which await the Apostles, and His object in forewarning them.
Having exhorted them to mutual love, He now fortifies them against the hatred of the world and the persecutions that awaited them.
Moreover, since He knew that these persecutions were in store, and did not avert them, the Apostles ought to learn from this to bear them with resignation, inasmuch as they were not merely endured for Him, but permitted by Him.
The Yezidees, coming under this category, receive little mercy from them, and for centuries have been exposed to persecutions from these their oppressors.
The immediate result of this severity is seen soon after in the announcement, on the 22nd of May of the next year, of the execution of a Franciscan and a Jesuit;[29] and other persecutions followed afterwards.
Meanwhile, however, on the north of Kiushiu bloody persecutions were being carried on; and a little later is recorded the news of the crucifixion of some thirty-seven men and women in Kokura.
I have therefore agreed to assist in the escape of a number of families who dread the persecutions of the Inquisition.
The persecutions continued as fierce as ever, the Inquisitor, Titelmann, daily citing before him persons of all ranks and callings, men and women, and compelling them by force to say whatever it pleased him.
I have already spoken of the fearful persecutions to which the inhabitants of the Netherlands were subjected by the officers of the Inquisition.
These things shall I cause to be written, that those who hear them may have faith in God in their persecutions and tribulations, and God will help them, as He did me.
At las' so many persecutions an' sufferin' was goin' on I got disheartened.
While we have entered bitter complaints against our Southern ex-slave States, we ought to call to mind many persecutions endured by the opponents of slavery in our own States of the North.
They maintained it under great trials and persecutions to the end, and Joseph Smith sealed his testimony with his life, a martyr to the truth.
While in the presence of judge Douglas and others, the judge requested the Prophet to give him a history of the persecutions in Missouri, which he did.
Thousands of the better classes of the Netherlands take refuge in England from the persecutions of the Spaniards.
Under this rule thepersecutions continued with increasing violence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "persecutions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
