10 Bible Verses about Martyrdom, Methods Of

He sent and had John beheaded in the prison,

But when Herod heard of it, he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has been raised."

Herod said, "John I beheaded, but who is this about whom I hear such things?" And he sought to see him.

Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

And whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast into a burning fiery furnace.

If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

They were stoned, they were sawn in two,they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated--

Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

He killed James the brother of John with the sword,

Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life.