Psalm 44:22

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Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

As it has been written, "For Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

"Happy are those who have been persecuted for righteousness' sake; because theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

But all these things will they do to you for My name's sake; because they know not Him Who sent Me.

They will put you out of the synagogues; yea, an hour is coming, that every one who kills you will think that he is offering service to God.

For, I think, God did set forth us the apostles last, as doomed to death; because we became a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

Why, too, are we in peril every hour?

And I will give to My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth."

And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And, seeing her, I wondered with great wonder.