Psalm 44:22
But for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are reckoned as sheep for slaughter.
Romans 8:36
According as it is written, For thy sake we are put to death all the day long; we have been reckoned as sheep for slaughter.
1 Samuel 22:17-19
And the king said to the couriers that stood about him, Turn and put the priests of Jehovah to death; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not inform me. But the servants of the king were not willing to put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Jehovah.
1 Kings 19:10
And he said, I have been very jealous for Jehovah the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I am left, I alone, and they seek my life, to take it away.
Psalm 44:11
Thou hast given us over like sheep appointed for meat, and hast scattered us among the nations;
Psalm 79:2-3
The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowl of the heavens, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth:
Isaiah 53:7
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, but he opened not his mouth; he was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and was as a sheep dumb before her shearers, and he opened not his mouth.
Matthew 5:10-12
Blessed they who are persecuted on account of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens.
John 15:21
But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they have not known him that sent me.
John 16:2-3
They shall put you out of the synagogues; but the hour is coming that every one who kills you will think to render service to God;
1 Corinthians 4:9
For I think that God has set us the apostles for the last, as appointed to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
1 Corinthians 15:30-31
Why do we also endanger ourselves every hour?
Revelation 11:3-9
And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.
Revelation 17:6
And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And I wondered, seeing her, with great wonder.