Psalm 44:22
Rather, on account of you we are killed {all day long}; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.
Romans 8:36
Just as it is written, "On account of you we are being put to death the whole day [long]; we are considered as sheep for slaughter."
1 Samuel 22:17-19
So the king said to the runners [who were] stationed around him, "Turn and kill the priests of Yahweh, because {they also support David} and because they knew that he was fleeing and {did not disclose it to me}." But the servants of the king [were] not willing to raise their hand to attack the priests of Yahweh.
1 Kings 19:10
Then he said, "I have been very zealous for Yahweh the God of hosts, for the {Israelites} have forsaken your covenant. They have demolished your altars, and they have killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left over, and they seek to take my life.
Psalm 44:11
You have given us as sheep [for] food, and among the nations you have scattered us.
Psalm 79:2-3
They have given the bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the heavens, the flesh of your faithful to [the] beasts of [the] earth.
Isaiah 53:7
He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was brought like lamb to [the] slaughter, and like a sheep is dumb before its shearers, so he did not open his mouth.
Matthew 5:10-12
Blessed [are] those who are persecuted because of righteousness, because theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
John 15:21
But 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
{They will expel you from the synagogue}, but an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think they are offering service to God.
1 Corinthians 4:9
For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as condemned to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to people.
1 Corinthians 15:30-31
And why are we in danger every hour?
Revelation 11:3-9
And I will grant [authority] to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy [for one] thousand two hundred sixty days, dressed in sackcloth."
Revelation 17:6
And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. And {I was greatly astonished when I saw her}.