Psalm 44:22
We are being killed all day long because of you. We are thought of as sheep to be slaughtered.
Romans 8:36
It is written: For your sake we are put to death all day long. We are considered as sheep for the slaughter. (Psalm 44:22)
1 Samuel 22:17-19
The king said to the guards who were attending him: Turn around and kill the priests of Jehovah! They are also with David. They knew that he was fleeing and did not reveal it to me. But the servants of the king were not willing to lift a hand to attack the priests of Jehovah.
1 Kings 19:10
He said: I have been zealous for Jehovah, the God of hosts. The children of Israel have not kept your agreement (covenant). They have destroyed your altars. They killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I, am the only one living. Now they seek to take my life too.
Psalm 44:11
You give us over to be butchered like sheep and scatter us among the nations.
Psalm 79:2-3
They have given the dead bodies of your servants to the birds for food. They have given the flesh of your godly ones to the animals.
Isaiah 53:7
He was oppressed and afflicted and yet he did not open his mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter. He was silent like sheep ready to be sheared. He did not open his mouth.
Matthew 5:10-12
Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.
John 15:21
They will do all these things to you for my name's sake. It is because they do not know the one that sent me.
John 16:2-3
They will throw you out of the synagogues. Yes, the hour comes that whoever kills you will think that he offered service to God.
1 Corinthians 4:9
For I think that God has placed us apostles last as men appointed to death. We are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.
1 Corinthians 15:30-31
Why do we stand in jeopardy (in danger) every hour?
Revelation 11:3-9
I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.
Revelation 17:6
I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the holy ones, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her I wondered greatly.