10 Bible Verses about Martyrdom, Methods Of

So he sent orders and had John beheaded in the prison.

When Herod heard of it, he said, “John, the one I beheaded, has been raised!”

“I beheaded John,” Herod said, “but who is this I hear such things about?” And he wanted to see Him.

Then I saw thrones, and people seated on them who were given authority to judge. I also saw the people who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of God’s word, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and who had not accepted the mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with the Messiah for 1,000 years.

Whoever does not fall down and worship will be thrown into a furnace of blazing fire.

And if I donate all my goods to feed the poor,
and if I give my body in order to boast
but do not have love, I gain nothing.

They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they died by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, and mistreated.

They threw him out of the city and began to stone him. And the witnesses laid their robes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

and he killed James, John’s brother, with the sword.

Women received their dead—they were raised to life again. Some men were tortured, not accepting release, so that they might gain a better resurrection,