Hebrews 11:37

Examples Of Faith In Action

³⁶ And others took a trial of mockings and scourgings, and moreover of bonds and imprisonment. ³⁷ They were stoned, they were sawed apart, they were tempted, they died in murder by sword. They wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being destitute, restricted, tormented ³⁸ (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.

All Things

By the Sword

Edge of the Sword

Put to Death

With The Sword

1 Kings 19:10

And he said, I have been very jealous for LORD, the God of hosts. For the sons of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword. And I, even I only, am left, and they seek my lif

2 Chronicles 24:21

And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of LORD.

2 Kings 1:8

And they answered him, He was a hairy man, and girt with a belt of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.

Jeremiah 26:23

and they fetched forth Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

1 Samuel 22:17-19

And the king said to the guard who stood about him, Turn, and kill the priests of LORD, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and did not disclose it to me. But the servants of the king would no

1 Kings 18:4

for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of LORD, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifties in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

1 Kings 18:13

Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of LORD, how I hid a hundred men of LORD's prophets by fifties in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

1 Kings 19:1

And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and also how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.

1 Kings 19:14

And he said, I have been very jealous for LORD, the God of hosts. For the sons of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword. And I, even I only, am left, and they seek my lif

1 Kings 21:10

And set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them bear witness against him, saying, Thou cursed God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him to death.

1 Kings 21:13-15

And the two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him. And the base fellows bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth cursed God and the king. Then they carried him forth o

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain I have smitten your sons. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a destroying lion.

Lamentations 4:13-14

[It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.

Zechariah 13:9

And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, It is my people, and they shall say, LORD i

Matthew 3:4

Now John himself had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leather belt about his waist. And his food was locusts and wild honey.

Matthew 8:20

And Jesus says to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky, nests, but the Son of man has nowhere he may lay his head.

Matthew 21:35

And the farmers having taken his bondmen, they beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

Matthew 23:35-37

so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

Luke 11:51-54

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I say to you, it will be required of this generation.

Luke 13:34

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather thy children together as a hen does her brood under her wings, and ye would not.

John 10:31-33

Therefore again the Jews took up stones so that they might stone him.

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold about the coming of the Righteous man, of whom ye now have become betrayers and murderers,

Acts 7:58-59

And having expelled him out of the city, they stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments beside the feet of a young man called Saul.

Acts 12:2-3

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

Acts 14:19

But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium. And having persuaded the crowds, and having stoned Paul, they dragged him out of the city, after presuming him to be dead.

1 Corinthians 4:9-13

For I think God has exhibited us the apostles least, as men sentenced to die, because we became a spectacle to the world, both to heavenly agents and to men.

2 Corinthians 11:23-27

Are they helpers of Christ? (I speak as being mad) I more: in toils, more abundantly; in stripes, countless; in prisons, more frequently; in deaths often.

2 Corinthians 12:10

Therefore I am pleased in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in restrictions, for the sake of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Hebrews 12:1-3

Therefore we also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, having put off every weight and cleverly entangling sin, let us run by perseverance the contest being set before us.

James 5:10-11

Take an example, my brothers, of evil-suffering and longsuffering, the prophets who spoke in the name of Lord.

Revelation 11:3

And I will give to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days clothed in sackcloth.