A. Be fearless & unmoveable:

MAT 10:28. And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

JER 1:17. Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.

JER 1:18. For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.

JER 1:19. And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.

EZE 3:8. Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.

EZE 3:9. As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

ACT 20:24. But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

1TH 3:3. That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.

1PE 2:20. For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

REV 12:11. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

PHI 1:14. And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

B. Have joy in persecution:

MAT 5:12. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

LUK 6:22. Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

LUK 6:23. Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

ACT 5:40. And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

ACT 5:41. And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.

ROM 5:3. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

2TH 1:4. So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:

1PE 3:14. But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;

1PE 4:12. Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

1PE 4:13. But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

1PE 4:14. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

C. Do not be ashamed:

1PE 4:16. Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

ISA 50:7. For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

D. Suffer willingly for a righteous cause:

JER 15:15. O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

MAT 5:10. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

2COR 12:10. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

2TH 1:5. Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

1PE 2:19. For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

E. Examples of enduring persecution courageously:

JER 26:11. Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die; for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.

JER 26:12. Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.

JER 26:13. Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.

JER 26:14. As for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you.

JER 26:15. But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.

1COR 4:12. And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

2COR 6:4. But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

2COR 6:5. In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;

2COR 6:8. By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;

2COR 6:9. As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

2COR 6:10. As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

2COR 11:23. Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

2COR 11:24. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.

2COR 11:25. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;

2COR 11:26. In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

2COR 11:27. In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

2TIM 1:8. Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;

HEB 10:32. But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

HEB 10:33. Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.

HEB 11:25. Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

F. Faithfulness to truth despite persecution:

PSA 119:51. The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.

PSA 119:86. All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.

PSA 119:87. They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.

PSA 119:157. Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.

REV 2:13. I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.

G. Endure persecution because of love for the lost:

2TIM 2:10. Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

HEB 5:7. Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

HEB 5:8. Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;

HEB 5:9. And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

1PE 2:21. For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

H. Examples of men of God imprisoned for their faith:

HEB 11:36. And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

JDG 16:21. But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.

1KI 22:26. And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;

1KI 22:27. And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.

2CH 16:10. Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.

JER 37:11. And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,

JER 37:12. Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the people.

JER 37:13. And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.

JER 37:14. Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.

JER 37:15. Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.

JER 37:16. When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

DAN 6:16. Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.

DAN 6:17. And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel.

MAT 14:3. For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.

MAT 14:4. For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.

ACT 4:1. And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,

ACT 4:2. Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

ACT 4:3. And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.

ACT 5:16. There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.

ACT 5:17. Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,

ACT 5:18. And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.

ACT 8:3. As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.

ACT 22:4. And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

ACT 22:5. As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.

ACT 22:19. And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:

ACT 12:1. Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.

ACT 12:2. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.

ACT 12:3. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)

ACT 12:4. And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.

ACT 16:22. And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.

ACT 16:23. And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:

ACT 16:24. Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

2COR 11:23. Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.