1 Corinthians 4:9
For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on exhibition at the disgraced end of the procession, as they do with men who are doomed to die in the arena.
Romans 8:36
As the Scripture says: "For your sake we are being put to death the livelong day; we are treated like sheep to be slaughtered."
Hebrews 10:33
partly by being exposed as a public spectacle to insults and violent sufferings, and partly by showing yourselves ready to share with those who were living in this condition.
Acts 19:29
So the whole city was thrown into confusion and with one impulse the people rushed into the theatre and dragged with them two Macedonians, Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul's traveling companions.
Acts 19:31
Some of the public officials in Asia, who were friendly to him, also sent word to him, begging him not to risk himself in the theatre.
1 Corinthians 15:30-32
Why too do we ourselves run such risks every hour?
2 Corinthians 1:8-10
For I do not want you to be uninformed about the sorrow that I suffered in Asia, because I was so crushed beyond any power to endure that I was in dire despair of life itself.
2 Corinthians 4:8-12
On every side I am ever hard-pressed, but never hemmed in; always perplexed, but never to the point of despair;
2 Corinthians 6:9
obscure and yet well-known, on the point of dying and yet I go on living, punished and yet not put to death,
Philippians 1:29-30
For it has been graciously granted to you for Christ's sake, not only to trust in Him but also to suffer for Him,
1 Thessalonians 3:3
so that none of you might be deceived amid these difficulties. For you knew yourselves that this is our appointed lot,
1 Thessalonians 5:9-10
For God appointed us not to reap His wrath but to gain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Hebrews 1:14
Are not the angels all attending spirits sent forth to serve for the sake of those who are going to be unceasing possessors of salvation?
Hebrews 11:36
Still others stood the test of taunts and tortures, and even chains and prisons.
Revelation 6:9-11
When He broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered for being faithful to God's message and for the testimony they bore to it.
Revelation 7:11-14
Then all the angels stood around the throne, the elders, and the four living creatures, and fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,
Revelation 17:6-7
I saw the woman drinking herself drunk with the blood of God's people and the blood of the martyred witnesses to Jesus. When I saw her, I was utterly astonished,