Romans 8:36
As it is written, "That for thy sake we have been put to death the whole day long; we have been reckoned indeed as sheep for slaughter."
Matthew 5:10-12
Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness sake: for their's is the kingdom in heaven.
John 15:21
But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
John 16:2-3
They will put you out of their synagogues: yea, the hour is coming, that every one who killeth you will think he offers God a sacred service.
1 Corinthians 4:9
For I think that God hath exposed us his apostles the last as devoted unto death. For we have been made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.
1 Corinthians 15:30-31
and why do we also expose ourselves to danger every hour?
Revelation 11:3-9
And I will give charge 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 saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.