9 Bible Verses about Martyrdom, Methods Of

And he sent and beheaded John in the prison. And his head was brought in a charger,

But Herod hearing thereof, said, This is that John whom I beheaded: he is risen from the dead.

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

And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them; and I saw the souls of them who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the wild beast nor his image, neither had received the mark on their forehead or on their hand; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

And though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and deliver up my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

They were stoned, were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheep-skins, in goat-skins, destitute, afflicted, tormented:

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

And he slew James, the brother of John, with the sword.

others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.