You might lose a girlfriend, boyfriend, or partner because they can't deal with your faith, or you may find it difficult to find a partner with faith like yours. People can interfere with your job - everything from being a nuisance to preventing you from getting a promotion. The results of persecution will either be backing away from your faith, or a stronger resolve to do what's right and believe God will see you through. The seed the scripture is intended to produce as much as one hundred times what was sown in our lives. But when we only let the scriptures take a limited part of your life, our roots will be shallow.
Persecution can blow our faith out of the water.
That's why we need to choose to stand, and make sure we're good ground for the good news then persecution won't stop us.