14 Bible Verses about Martyrdom, Qualities Of

And they stoned Stephen, while he cried to the Lord: "Lord Jesus! receive my spirit!" Falling on his knees, he called out loudly: "Lord! do not charge them with this sin;" and with these words he fell asleep.

Their victory was due to the Blood of the Lamb, and to the Message to which they bore their testimony. In their love of life they shrank not from death.

Then Jesus said to his disciples: "If any man wishes to walk in my steps, let him renounce self, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Calling the people and his disciples to him, Jesus said: "If any man wishes to walk in my steps, let him renounce self, take up his cross, and follow me.

For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, and whoever, for my sake, loses his life--that man shall save it.

He, filled as he was with the Holy Spirit, fixed his eyes intently on the heavens, and saw the Glory of God and Jesus standing at God's right hand. "Look," he exclaimed, "I see Heaven open and the Son of Man standing at God's right hand!"

Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. The Devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tempted, and may undergo persecution for ten days. Be faithful even to death, and I will give you the Crown of Life.

Women received back their dead raised to life. Some were tortured on the wheel, and refused release in order that they might rise to a better life.

It was then that Paul made the reply: "Why are you weeping and breaking my heart like this? For my part, I am ready not only to be bound, but even to suffer death at Jerusalem for the Name of the Lord Jesus."

You will be betrayed even by your parents and brothers and relations and friends, and they will cause some of you to be put to death,

Brother will betray brother to death, and the father his child; and children will turn against their parents, and cause them to be put to death;

When that time comes, they will give you up to persecution, and will put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations on account of my Name.

They will expel you from their Synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will think that he is making an offering to God.

"In truth I tell you," he continued, "when you were young, you used to put on your own girdle, and walk wherever you wished; but, when you have grown old, you will have to stretch out your hands, while some one else puts on your girdle, and takes you where you do not wish." Jesus said this to show the death by which Peter was to honor God, and then he added: "Follow me."