Matthew 24:9
Then men will hand you over to suffer affliction, and they will kill you; you will be hated by all the Gentiles on account of my name.
John 16:2
They will excommunicate you; indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will imagine he is performing a service to God.
Hebrews 11:34
quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness won to strength, proved valiant in warfare, and routed hosts of foreigners.
Matthew 10:21
Brother will betray brother to death, the father will betray his child, children will rise against their parents and put them to death,
Matthew 13:11
He replied, "Because it is granted you to understand the open secrets of the Realm of heaven, but it is not granted to these people.
Matthew 13:51-52
Have you understood all this?" They said to him, "Yes."
Matthew 20:23
"You shall drink my cup," said Jesus, "but it is not for me to grant seats at my right hand and at my left; these belong to the men for whom they have been destined by my Father."
Matthew 28:20
and teach them to obey all the commands I have laid on you. And I will be with you all the time, to the very end of the world."
Luke 24:44-47
Then he said to them, "When I was still with you, this is what I told you, that whatever is written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled."
Acts 4:2-4
who were annoyed at them teaching the people and proclaiming Jesus as an instance of resurrection from the dead.
Acts 11:26
and on finding him he brought him to Antioch, where for a whole year they were guests of the church and taught considerable numbers. It was at Antioch too that the disciples were originally called "Christians."
Acts 12:2-3
James the brother of John he slew with the sword,
Acts 14:21
and after preaching the gospel to that town and making a number of disciples, they turned back to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch,
1 Corinthians 4:9
For it seems to me that God means us apostles to come in at the very end, like the doomed gladiators in the arena! We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men!
2 Timothy 1:12
and this is why I am suffering. Still, I am not ashamed of it; I know whom I have trusted and I am certain he is able to keep what I have put into his hands till the great Day.
2 Timothy 2:24-25
And the Lord's servant must not be a man of strife; he must be kind to everybody, a skilled teacher, a man who will not resent injuries;
2 Timothy 4:6
The last drops of my own sacrifice are falling; my time to go has come.
Hebrews 11:36-38
others, again, had to experience scoffs and scourging, aye chains and imprisonment ??37 they were stoned, sawn in two, and cut to pieces; they had to roam about in sheepskins and goatskins, forlorn, oppressed, ill-treated
Revelation 1:9
I John, your brother and your companion in the distress and realm and patient endurance which Jesus brings, found myself in the island called Patmos, for adhering to God's word and the testimony of Jesus.
Revelation 2:13
I know where you dwell, where Satan sits enthroned, and yet you adhere to my Name, you have not renounced your faith in me even during the days when my witness, my faithful Antipas, was martyred in your midst ??where Satan dwells.
Revelation 6:9
And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain for adhering to God's word and to the testimony which they bore;
Revelation 7:14
I said to him, "You know, my lord." So he told me, "These are the people who have come out of the great Distress, who washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Revelation 13:7-10
He was allowed to wage war on the saints and to conquer them, and given authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation;
Revelation 17:6
Then I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses of Jesus; and as I looked at her I marvelled greatly.