Romans 8:36
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.
Matthew 5:10-12
Blessed are the persecuted for righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
John 15:21
But all these things they will do to you, on my account, because they know not him that sent me.
John 16:2-3
They shall put you out of the synagogues; but the hour is coming when every one that kills you will think he renders God a service.
1 Corinthians 4:9
For I think that God has shown us the apostles last, as devoted to death, for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
1 Corinthians 15:30-31
Why also do we encounter danger every hour?
Revelation 11:3-9
And I will give charge to my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy twelve hundred and sixty days [three years and a half] clothed with sackcloth.
Revelation 17:6
And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus, and I wondered when I saw her with great wonder.