Romans 8:36
As the Scripture says, "For your sake we are being put to death all day long, We are treated like sheep to be slaughtered."
Matthew 5:10-12
"Blessed are those who have endured persecution for their uprightness, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them!
John 15:21
But they will do all this to you on my account, because they do not understand him who sent me.
John 16:2-3
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.
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.
1 Corinthians 15:30-31
Why do we ourselves run such risks every hour?
Revelation 11:3-9
And I will permit my two witnesses, clothed in sackcloth, to prophesy for 1,260 days."
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,