10 Bible Verses about Martyrdom, Methods Of

And having sent, he beheaded John in the prison.

And Herod, having heard, said, That John whom I beheaded, this is he; he was raised from the dead.

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

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given them: and the souls of them beheaded with an axe for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and who worshipped not the wild beast, nor his image, and took not the stamp upon their foreheads, and upon their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

And whoever shall not fall and prostrate himself shall be cast into the midst of a furnace of flaming fire.

And if I feed out all my goods, and if I deliver my body that I be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

They were stoned, they were cut by sawing, they were tried, they died by the slaughter of the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being in want, pressed, treated ill;

And having cast out of the city, they stoned: and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul.

And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.

Women received their dead from rising up: and others were beaten, not receiving redemption; that they might attain a better resurrection.