Matthew 24:9
Then they will hand you over to persecution and they will put you to death, and you will be hated by all the heathen because you bear my name.
John 16:2
They will exclude you from their synagogues; why, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is doing religious service to God.
Hebrews 11:34
put out furious fires, escaped death by the sword, found strength in their time of weakness, proved mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.
Matthew 10:21
One brother will give up another to death, and a father his child, and children will turn against their parents, and have them put to death.
Matthew 13:11
He answered, "You are permitted to know the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven, but they are not.
Matthew 13:51-52
"Do you understand all this?" They said to him, "Yes."
Matthew 20:23
He said to them, "Then what I drink you shall drink, but as for sitting at my right or my left, that is not mine to give, but belongs to those for whom it is destined by my Father."
Matthew 28:20
and teach them to observe all the commands that I have given you. I will always be with you, to the very close of the age."
Luke 24:44-47
Then he said to them, "This is what I told you when I was still with you??hat everything that is written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must come true."
Acts 4:2-4
greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people and declaring that in the case of Jesus there had been a resurrection from the dead.
Acts 11:26
and found him and brought him to Antioch. The result was that for a whole year they met with the church, and taught large numbers of people, and it was at Antioch that the disciples first came to be known as Christians.
Acts 12:2-3
He had John's brother, James, beheaded,
Acts 14:21
They proclaimed the good news in that town and made a number of disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
1 Corinthians 4:9
For it seems to me, God has exhibited us apostles at the very end of the procession, like the men condemned to die in the arena. For we have become a spectacle to the whole universe, angels as well as men.
2 Timothy 1:12
This is why I am suffering as I am, but I am not ashamed of it, for I know whom I have trusted and I am sure that he is able to guard what I have intrusted to him for that Day.
2 Timothy 2:24-25
and a slave of the Lord must not quarrel, but treat everyone kindly; he must be persuasive and unresentful,
2 Timothy 4:6
My life is already being poured out, and the time has come for my departure.
Hebrews 11:36-38
Still others had to endure taunts and blows, and even fetters and prison.
Revelation 1:9
I, John, your brother and companion in the distress, the kingdom, and the endurance that Jesus brings, found myself on the island called Patmos, for uttering God's message and testifying to Jesus.
Revelation 2:13
I know where you live; where Satan has his throne! Yet you cling to my name and did not renounce your faith in me even in the days when my faithful Antipas, my witness, was put to death among you??here Satan lives.
Revelation 6:9
When he broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who have been slaughtered on account of God's message and for adhering to the testimony.
Revelation 7:14
I said to him, "You know, my lord." He said to me, "They are the people who come through the great persecution, who have washed their robes white in the blood of the Lamb.
Revelation 13:7-10
It was allowed to make war on God's people and to conquer them, and it was given authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation.
Revelation 17:6
I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of God's people, and the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. When I saw her I was perfectly amazed,