Romans 8:36
(Because, as it is written, For thy sake we are being killed all the day long, we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.)
1 Corinthians 15:30
Yes, and why am I myself in danger every hour?
John 16:2
They will excommunicate you; indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will imagine he is performing a service to God.
Acts 8:32
Now the passage of scripture which he was reading was as follows: ??he was led like a sheep to be slaughtered, and as a lamb is dumb before the shearer, so he opens not his lips.
Acts 20:24
But then, I set no value on my own life as compared with the joy of finishing my course and fulfilling the commission I received from the Lord Jesus to attest the gospel of the grace of God.
1 Corinthians 4:9
For it seems to me that God means us apostles to come in at the very end, like the doomed gladiators in the arena! We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men!