10 Bible Verses about Martyrdom, Methods Of

And he sent and beheaded John in the prison.

But when Herod heard of it, he said, This is John, whom I beheaded: he is risen from the dead.

And Herod said, I have beheaded John, but who is this of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.

And I saw thrones, and those who sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them; and I saw the souls of those that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the word of God and who had not worshipped the beast neither its image neither had received its mark upon their foreheads or in their hands; and they shall live and reign with Christ the thousand years.

and whoever does not fall down and worship that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have not charity, it profits me nothing.

they were stoned; they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword; they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; poor, afflicted, mistreated,

and casting him out of the city, they stoned him; and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.

And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.

women received their dead raised to life again, and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection;