Psalm 44:22
For your sake we are being killed all day long. We are thought of as sheep to be slaughtered.
Romans 8:36
As it is written, "For your sake we are being put to death all day long. We are thought of as sheep headed for slaughter."
1 Samuel 22:17-19
The king told the guards, who were standing beside him, "Turn and kill the priests of the LORD because they supported David, and because they knew he was fleeing, but didn't inform me." But the officials of the king did not want to lift their hands to attack the priests of the LORD.
1 Kings 19:10
"I've been very zealous for the LORD God of the Heavenly Armies," he replied. "The Israelis have abandoned your covenant, demolished your altars, executed your prophets with swords, and I that's right, just me! am the only one left. Now they're seeking my life, to get rid of me!"
Psalm 44:11
You handed us over to be slaughtered like sheep and you scattered us among the nations.
Psalm 79:2-3
to give the corpses of your servants as food for the birds of the skies and the flesh of your godly ones to the beasts of the earth;
Isaiah 53:7
He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he didn't open his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
Matthew 5:10-12
"How blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, because the kingdom from heaven belongs to them!
John 15:21
They will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.
John 16:2-3
You'll be thrown out of the synagogues. Yes, a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he's serving God.
1 Corinthians 4:9
For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display in last place, like men condemned to death. We have become a spectacle for the world, for angels, and for people to stare at.
1 Corinthians 15:30-31
And why in fact are we being endangered every hour?
Revelation 11:3-9
I will give my two witnesses who wear sackcloth the authority to prophesy for 1,260 days."
Revelation 17:6
I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. I was very surprised when I saw her.