Romans 8:36
Even as it is written. For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Matthew 5:10-12
"Blessed are those who have been persecuted in the cause of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
John 15:21
"But they will do all these things to you for my name's sake, because they know not Him who sent me.
John 16:2-3
"They will excommunicate you from their synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will suppose that he is doing God's service.
1 Corinthians 4:9
But it seems to me that God has exhibited us apostles, last of all, like men doomed to death; for we are made a spectacle to the whole world, both to men and to angels.
1 Corinthians 15:30-31
Yes, and why am I myself exposed to danger every hour?
Revelation 11:3-9
And I will give power to my two witnesses, and clothed in sackcloth they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Revelation 17:6
And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus, and I wondered with a great wonder.